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.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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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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.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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