The importance of corporate spirit as opposed to individualism when the Company success is at stake. You often try to find a significant thread, a framework to adequately express the thoughts that superimpose themselves in your mind and then, suddenly, a song you have heard a million times, a song that is part of the background noise of your day, makes you discover a different concept. This is the power of art, the power of artists.
Then you think you have found the right thread and look upon this text that you had missed with completely different eyes. And that which was background noise, finds a different location, a different space. Music, words, states of mind, new acquaintances influence you. It does not matter, you have learned and put together pieces of your life, culture and thoughts in a different way. Above all, you feel an urge to share it with others, collaborators and friends.
Because It’s a bittersweet
symphony this life
Trying to make ends meet, trying to find some money then you die
You Know I can change,
I can change, I can change But I’m here in my mould, I am here in my mould
And I’m million different people from one day to the next
People and organizations cannot expect to have progress unless they imagine creative solutions during moments of change, otherwise they will naturally be tense and anxious. And when we are anxious, our creativity level may drop to zero. Discourses, provocations, reassurances and threats may be useful if there is no faith inside the group. In difficult times like these, where there is a lot of anxiety, people want to see honest faces in all fields. Even, or especially, in companies. We feel reassured only by competence, commitment and seriousness.
From one day to the next, we are million different people, although we continue to maintain the integrity as single individuals and take out one of the “million” characters in anxious situations (but I am a million different people from one day to the next) choosing it, not for the interest of the group, but for the interest of the individual (trying to make ends meet).
In practise, we present the “face” which is easier if we cover it up with a paste of thoughts (but I’m here in my mould..) and not the face which allows us all to proceed. It is better to mould all together than trying to identify and share a dream; we are, in fact, affirming the logic of our survival (to find some money). Fortunately, nobody can really remain himself without changing, nobody can preserve knowledge without learning continuously, nobody can repeat without inventing. Nobody has learned something once and for all. Not even his native language, let alone the rest.
Surely, ferocious competition exposes many of us to an anxiety that is similar to that which we find in comic strips about cannibals that put their prey to boil. This happens mainly because the quickest and most efficient methods used by companies to improve profitability is almost always that of reducing staff. What is our credibility when we have said to our workers for years: “Our Company value is made up by our staff”?
Anxiety becomes overwhelming, we do not see a way out, a miraculous way to follow in order to be safe, especially if we do not have faith any longer. We become pessimists and pessimists are fundamentally lazy. A lazy bum waiting (...then you die). He does not want to force himself to adapt to new situations, he does not want to participate with a personal contribution, experiences, and his repressed talent to contribute and reduce collective anxiety. Rather, he becomes a companion in misfortune. He pretends value from others, but does not give value to himself, thus loosing the esteem of others and the necessary faith to be part of a team. Talking is of little use unless we are able of guiding without imposing, of creating situations that are “good” for you and for others. Successful companies are such only if there is a great spirit of cohoperation, in which everybody works to affirm the capacities, make them grow and last. This means above all to perfect the capacity of suspending personal interests in view of more ample and lasting advantages for everybody.
To think a while and realize; to realize and have new objectives and new dreams and from time to time searching for the best way and the best person (of the million people that live inside us - but I’m million different people from one day to the next) to put at other people´s disposal, both to reach common objectives and to affirm our talent and dignity. Because I can change, I can change, I can change.
It depends on us. Only by having the force to run alone and contemporarily with others against daily realities, really accepting its very hard tests, can we aim to reducing the risk of the future and win (because it’s a bittersweet symphony this life).
