The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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