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Society and Change
Globally, the concept of change has been embraced to underpin the political, economic, social
and ecological developments. Effecting positive changes in societies can positively impact on
different facets of life whether ecological, demographic, technological, cultural, economic or
social. To accrue the positive changes, alterations regarding the functioning and structure of
different elements and systems must be undertaken with varying depth as deemed suitable for
the situation at hand. Making these alterations encompasses change which commonly
happens everywhere across the globe albeit at varying rates. As such, the rate at which
changes are designed, adopted and implemented vary greatly due to a number of reasons such
as; the primary cause of change, level of education, socio-economic status and political
environment of a certain. The rate of change is also influenced by the inherent controversy
associated with the change. Despite change being inevitable in a given society, discovery of
elements that can lead to change, diffusion of the ideas and receptiveness to ideas is usually
low. Hence, when one wants to change the world, he needs to break rules set up by society
and endures stress, oppression and sound of disagreement.
Breaking institutional cultures is an important step when conceptualizing and
implementing a certain change. Essentially, institutional culture is open of the fundamental
elements that can enable or limit the efforts of instigating change in the world or at an
organization. This has been witnessed at Wall Street and its obsession with recruiting human
resources from Ivy League universities such as Princeton and Harvard. The institutional
culture at Wall Street has made sweeping generalization about smartness and Princeton and
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Harvard being the primary suppliers of smart workforce. To change this status quo,
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