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.
BILL DRAYTONOrganizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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