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.
BILL DRAYTONAnd we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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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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