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We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

~Bill Drayton

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Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

~Bill Drayton

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I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Anything Big Changes Found Loud May Parents People Quiet Quite Reassuring Say Style Suggesting Taught Who You

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We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Become Competence Confidence Every Examples High High School Like Lots Middle Place School Where Will Would Youth

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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Change Everyone Imagine Maker Really Where World

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In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Able America Average Became Between Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Difference For The People Friends Income India Involved Leading Movement People Per Reality Rights Rights Movement Several Stark Time Visit Visited Who

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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Almost Always Build Doing Embody Entrepreneurs Existing Institutions Old Old Ways Out Step Things Vision Ways

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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.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Agricultural Biggest Change Defined Every How Humans Make Organization Primarily Repetition Revolution Since Structure Successful Together Transformation Transition Work Work Together World

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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. 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.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Add Away Becoming Changes Combination Enforcement Global Greatest Instead Must Necessary Organizations Rapidly Rules Shift Team Teams Together Value Walls Whatever

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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