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.
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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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