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 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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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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?.
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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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