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 Read Quote
Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision. Bill Drayton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. Bill Drayton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote