I believe in the creative power of people. In my experience they are both able and willing! Their strengths however, are not always used as the starting point of contributing to teams, organizations and/or society.
In many cases this is because individuals haven’t taken the time to truly understand their own talents, competencies, values and passion: hence their Personal Brand. Our educational systems also did not live up to our expectations in that area. I agree with Sir Ken Robinson on this matter; changing educational paradigms (see below).
Also the way we have historically organized cooperation isn’t helping. We got stuck in the ‘machine bureaucracy’ and many systems are still pyram...