https://changingmediagroup.com/change-not-built-in-a-day/ Media Strategy | Web Development | Video Production Mon, 17 Oct 2016 07:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.12 https://changingmediagroup.com/change-not-built-in-a-day/#comment-2792 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:43:26 +0000 http://changingmediagroup.com/?p=38712#comment-2792 Thanks for your incisive comment, Lee. I personally couldn’t agree more. The “impossibility of failure” (or to admitting it) is a major obstacle to meaningful social change. I look forward to exploring that issue more and deepening the discussion.

]]> https://changingmediagroup.com/change-not-built-in-a-day/#comment-2791 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:39:05 +0000 http://changingmediagroup.com/?p=38712#comment-2791 I think this post does an excellent job of naming some of the barriers to funding social change. This idea of re-examining the directions in which resources flow—whether society is able, given current prevailing wisdom, to direct resources where it will do the most good is key, in my opinion. The forms of capitalism and philanthropy we practice, like so many of our institutions, were really designed for another time—one with different challenges than we have now. Creative failures need not only to be allowed without negative consequences for the organizations and entrepreneurs with whom they occur, but counted on the positive side of the balance sheet when we learn from them. I would simply add that not only was Rome not built in a day, the great discoveries of science are normally the result of extensive experimentation over time. In most labs, most days, failure is what happens. It’s the mill of success. We know what we care about by how much failure we allow in getting it done.

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