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

Bill Drayton

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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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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Growing Health Pattern People Up
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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Diving Fishing Teacher

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

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