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.
BILL DRAYTONThe most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
-
-
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
BILL DRAYTON -
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.
BILL DRAYTON -
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTON -
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
BILL DRAYTON -
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.
BILL DRAYTON -
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?.
BILL DRAYTON -
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
BILL DRAYTON -
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.
BILL DRAYTON -
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
BILL DRAYTON -
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.
BILL DRAYTON -
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.
BILL DRAYTON -
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTON -
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
BILL DRAYTON -
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
BILL DRAYTON -
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTON