To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
BILL DRAYTONTo break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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.
BILL DRAYTONWhen 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.
BILL DRAYTONSocial 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.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTONAnyone 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 DRAYTONClearly, 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 DRAYTONThe 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 DRAYTONInstead, 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 one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
BILL DRAYTONImagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTONSocial 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.
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTONWe need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
BILL DRAYTONEvery child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTONWe 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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