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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.

Bill Drayton

Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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Big Idea Powerful Rights Thinking
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
Every 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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Children Empathy Impact
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social

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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