Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTONThe one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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Social 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.
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