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.
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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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 is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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 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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