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

Bill Drayton

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  To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

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

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  Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

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  When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.

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  What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.

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