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.
BILL DRAYTONThe 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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 our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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