Tag: politics

Two speeds

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Our world has been moving at two speeds for a long time now.

The virus that is spreading in so many countries today is an example of what has already been happening for decades. Somewhere, something ignites, and by the time the fire is everywhere, old and local institutions are still arguing to figure out whose fault it was and how they can drop the ball onto someone else.

The lack of global leadership makes it impossible for countries to act in time and with a common strategy, and inaction is the fertile ground on which so many of the problems our society is facing can soar undisturbed.

The first one

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In a moment of crisis, we need leaders that act responsibly.

Not in the sense that they need to come to us and tell that it’s their fault, or that they have made a decision and here is what we all have to do to comply. Responsibility is being accountable for your own actions, and so leading responsibly means that you are going to show us what to do, to live the restrictions, to take your own public steps towards what is necessary.

Giving orders and enforcing them is not the essence of leadership.

Be (the first) one of us, and we will follow.

Global threat

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A global threat should not be a reason to point fingers, to upsell, to market, to do brand awareness, to interrupt attention, to retract within our ideologies.

It should be an opportunity to come together and together bring the situation back to normality.

Can we do it?

Precaution and preoccupation

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In certain circumstances, when much is at stake, when it’s a matter of life or death, when you are trying to contain a problem that could have grim repercussion, overreacting can be the right choice. It’s about protecting something that is dear, and it is ok to be overly precautious.

Being preoccupied, on the other hand, is rarely the better thing to do. It’s a distraction to keep us busy, a way to delay important decisions, a focus that engulfs our mind and that we do not need.

Precaution is action that keeps the problem at bay. Preoccupation is debate that makes the problem big enough so that nothing else exists.

Precaution is (it should be) the language of governments, authority, leadership. Preoccupation is the language of media, populism and masses.

Choose carefully which one to utilize as you go about this difficult time.

Appease

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More often than not, acting to appease the demand of someone else will end with the person we are trying to appease demanding more.

What are you going to do with the new request? And with the following one? And with the one that will, inevitably, come after that?

You need to be able to stand by your decisions because they make sense to you, because you have evaluated different options and assesed that’s the best course of action, because that’s what you would have done if nobody would have asked.

Intentionality is the only thing that matters.