The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
BILL DRAYTONThe 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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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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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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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