Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen...One can listen better if one sees the whole.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

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.

In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. 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.

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.

The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.