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.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

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.

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

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

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.