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.
BILL DRAYTONWe need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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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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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