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.
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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It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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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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There 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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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