Cambiar o morir

La revista Fast Company presentó el mes de mayo pasado un gran artículo sobre porqué muchas organizaciones no cambian.

"What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life and death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing CEO. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most? Yes, you say? Try again. Yes?

You're probably deluding yourself. You wouldn't change.

Don't believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?"

Muchas veces nos quejamos de que el gobierno sigue siendo burocrático, que las empresas siguen abusando de sus clientes, que las religiones siguen fomentando discriminación y no fraternidad... pero, nos hemos detenido a pensar si nosotros cambiamos o no? Seguimos fumando, seguimos sin hacer ejercicio o comer sanamente? Seguimos manejando sin cortesía, seguimos sin acabar ese libro, sin hablarle a ese pariente o a ese amigo? Es hora de pensar un poco sobre eso y darnos la oportunidad de cambiar.