Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTONThe 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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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