Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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