To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
BILL DRAYTONThe one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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