We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
BILL DRAYTONThere are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Clearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.
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Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
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Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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