The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Of course you can do it. It doesn't require brilliance. It's just giving yourself permission and then being persistent. Persistent in seeing the problem or opportunity and persistent in thinking about it until you have come up with some interesting ideas that might change the pattern. It's really a mindset, not anything in the objective world - that is the problem.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

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.

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.