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

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

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

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.

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

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.