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.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

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.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.

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.