Dr. Ichak Kalderon Adizes

Those that believe in human life are scattered. Thousands of not-for-profit organizations, philanthropic organizations, everybody [is] working for himself for a certain goal. They take care of abused children. They take care of abused women. They take care of cancer. This takes care of I don't know what. Thousands, millions of philanthropic organizations working alone by themselves. We will never win. No chance.  

Guys, in Santa Barbara where I live, there are 900 philanthropic organizations. They don't talk to each other. If we took around the world all philanthropic organizations, well-meaning organizations, you know, [how] many people belong to them? Probably, a billion people. You know how much money there is? More than a billion. Billions of dollars. Not together. If we did put it together and had a common strategy how we are going to change the business world, we can do it. We can do it! 

Because let me tell you something. I work with the business world. I work with CEOs of companies all over the world. They're not bad people. They really are concerned about what's going on as much as you and me. They are concerned that their children very soon will not be able to play in the street out there, in the field, in the park, because the sun will destroy them and give them cancer. We are not protected anymore. That they will not know flowers anymore, they will not know animals anymore. They're going to be sitting at home playing computer games all day. They cannot go outside because of crime, because they're going to get cancer from the sun. They will not be able to breathe. They are concerned! Each one of my clients, CEOs, are concerned!

So how come? The dynamics of the system makes them do it. They don't have a choice. If you are the CEO, if you don't produce the profits that the stock market predicts you should produce, your owners are going to sell the stock. Your stock is going to go down and you will be fired.  They don't have a choice. The system took over and we are all victims of the system. We are not the villains, we are the victims. What we need to do is change the system. But in order to change the system, we have to be politically powerful. 

You're not going to change the system unless you're politically powerful. Because politicians watch on the votes. How many votes do I get? We need to get this billion people together to say “We will all vote for those politicians that believe in what we believe and they will change the system.” If we don't change the system, it's not going to work. But in order to change the system, we need to get the politicians on our side. In order to get the politicians on our side, we have to get the voting. In order to get the voting, we have to get together. And people don't understand. You know, they're taking care of abused women and abused children and abused this and that. Nice. But you know what? Is not going to change the world. It's going to get worse and worse, and worse, and worse. 

Democracy is not working anymore. You think that we have democracy in America? Don't kid yourself! The business world, through lobbying, is doing everything. We are just playing games. The world is becoming too complicated for democracy to work. Dictatorship does not work either. We need a new system!   

Everybody's getting excited to change the world. But nothing is happening. Except that we go and we burn some tires when we make demonstrations… That's not going to work! What we need is to get organized. Through this platform, we need to get people to say, “Okay, we have a chapter of Creative Society in America, chapter in Santa Barbara, chapter in New York, chapter in Kyiv... And we all start working in unison.” And I'm glad that it's a Creative society, which I believe should be the Constructive society, is making it as a goal to do it in the future. I bless, you’re blessed and I congratulate you on your efforts. Thank you very much.