What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTONThe one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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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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