The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur. Bill Drayton More Quotes by Bill Drayton More Quotes From Bill Drayton We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through. Bill Drayton empathypracticepeople Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. 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. Bill Drayton wallteamorganization 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. 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. Bill Drayton powerfulrightsthinking 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. Bill Drayton patternsdonepeople How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist. Bill Drayton amazing-opportunitiesleadershipopportunity 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 creativityskillscreative If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution Bill Drayton outrunproblemway We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. 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. 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. 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. Bill Drayton zeroopportunitythinking Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact Bill Drayton empathyimpactchildren 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. Bill Drayton growing-uphealthpeople What is your personal definition of "good"? Bill Drayton exerciseloveworld 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. Bill Drayton powerfulbusinessrights The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea. Bill Drayton entrepreneurtestsideas The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot. Bill Drayton variablesbecominggiving Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family. Bill Drayton my-familysidesideas 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. Bill Drayton entrepreneursimpleideas 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. Bill Drayton working-togetherorganizationsuccessful Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition. Bill Drayton repetitionbegets The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. Bill Drayton change-the-worldchangelifeworld We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. Bill Drayton literacyteachempathy
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