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 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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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The 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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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.
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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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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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