Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
BILL DRAYTONOrganizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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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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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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