Following the financial crisis we are now in a political crisis. Here begins the diabolical circle. The recovery is again sought in the financial system, which has caused the crisis properly. There is now another label pasted on the same costly system, namely austerity. Now other bodies can benefit. A golden opportunity to break the economy industry.
In the Daily Press on 9 April an article about "Cutbacks are already big business." Kluwer organizes the Fair in Utrecht a study on this. The consultancy BMC has been hired by 24 municipalities and one expects a multiple thereof. Consultants make money. Cuts costs money, lots of money estimated. Who pays for that? The citizen who must economize.
Whether all this activity any result to be seen. Economizing is one side of the story, making money is the other side. If you do not deserve you can not have much savings. But money is hardly, because the citizen is just part of a money-hungry machine. That can only wear so less performance.
In this machine thinking it is essential overlooked, namely that it is about people and not a money machine mechanism. Only people can make money, machines can not. A crisis is not solved by money, but only by people who make money. But they should know for the opportunity and trained. By saving these opportunities shrinking.
The small businesses that the center must bring to life be cut off because they no longer meet the necessary appropriations to come. Or they are swallowed by the scale of large companies. Students will also be difficult to meet future education and youth work, because there is less money.
The older and sicker you are the more you should also take care of yourself, because there is no money. It does seem that this money policy the powerless powerless, because they spend nothing on. I also get the impression that empower more powerful because they bring money and therefore can spend more. That is good for the economy. The high salaries and bonuses in the control group often remain without prejudice to fester.
Yet we should not complain because everything has a positive side. The crisis and the austerity wave makes us aware of our responsibility not only for ourselves but for our immediate environment where we can do something. Small-scale approaches to equity and work out the priorities of innovation, human renewal. Ultimately it is always the man who alone is able to make money and decent refresh. Economizing is costly, we finally cut it, but often at the expense of the man who has to generate money.
All austerity programs will fail if the people have no room to be human and to develop their own responsibilities.
| Sincerely, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Cuts,
I myself have in recent years made a lot while I'm certainly not lost sight of what is truly valuable in life is and how important it is to maintain a positive attitude as one else in a downward spiral threatens to come.
Engaging in cuts will be far too often associated with depression and sadness, thinking,
while the fact is that at the time of going back to the essence and therefore implement strict, working for progress and growth in a new way.
The rediscovery of what is really important to get ahead may see many business managers apparently overlooked and they are together with the passage of their budget cuts less humane,
the balance between 'being' and 'human' is still so very often with the conditioned idea of 'success' it.
Too bad ..
Paul Day,
this one (my) small-scale approach.
A vision of leadership!
In essence, you can reduce to the following principles.
Strengthen the capacity to support at individual, team and organizational level.
Bet on the product innovation at individual, team and organizational level.
And as a result harmony book at individual, team and organizational level.
How do you enhance the ability to support?
At individual level, learning to learn to centralize.
At the team level way of dealing with people first turn.
On organisatieniveuau meaning to centralize.
How do you put it through innovation?
Give variation at the individual level.
Give freedom of action at the team level.
Provide sufficient income at the organizational level.
How to book your result harmony?
By paying attention to atmosphere at the individual level.
By paying attention to full (disorder) at the team level.
By paying attention to space at the organizational level.
From another perspective, I see it so;
Get to know each individual to learn and offers variation than there arises atmosphere.
Learn each team to deal with people and give them freedom of action there will be full (disorder) are experienced.
Teach each organization to give meaning and sufficient income to provide it will accommodate.
At each level that you communicate what matters, and nothing more and nothing less.
Do not miss your mood at the individual level? See if there is sufficient attention to learning to learn and / or vodoende variation is present.
Do you miss vo (disorder) at the team level? See if there is sufficient attention to the manner of dealing with people and / or there is sufficient freedom of action.
Do not miss your space at the organizational level? See if there is sufficient attention to meaning and / or sufficient income.
I also believe that learning to learn and deal with people a sense of meaning indicates.
Say the ability to support strengthening.
Sufficient variety and freedom of action provides sufficient income.
Say it means innovation efforts.
And atmosphere and full (disorder) gives a space where you would want to be (to work / life).
Say the result harmony books.
This is not a vision and the vision and wants to meet you.
It is developing and growing daily.
And every time I discover new insights that matter.
Inspiration!
Thanks Paul, for your vision and clear article.
Responsibility is a widely used and less well understood concept. The expire much further than people usually think.
Heart Regards,
Vonny Nuijten, spiritual coach
Dear Mr. De Blot,
First let me say that I think your great knowledge and wisdom with anyone who wants to share. For you, probably the most normal thing in the world but in this world is not always the case. Thank God changes the world and also here we find each other more.
KSF's of our civilization:
In your piece you get a number of social factors that I think the KSF's of a civilization: Man Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Education and Care. Care for our elderly, our future and our children. Actually, you have a safe environment where our children can develop and where the elderly and the sick cared for without this financial strings attached.
I think if we citizens continue to think that we are only one part in a costly machine, "we continue to behave that way and continue to put our fate in the hands of others who are at the controls of this machine down. We know the consequences, of course, everyone is to blame.
What we hopefully learned is not to blindly trust the people who sit on those buttons.
Because while you are talking about the flipside of the coin: Awareness of personal responsibility. Look, there is the most important part of the solution: In conjunction with taking action, the DO, we can turn the tide:
CHAIN
We are not only a link we are together the whole chain: from We All are One.
We owe it to our children, our elderly and to ourselves to take the next step in our awareness and take our responsibility to pick up. We ourselves are the ones who let this happen because our responsibility in the hands of another have shown. Well, you can of course also your confidence. We are also those who might sit next to those buttons.
TOGETHER
And you're right, I have to myself and my surroundings begin. But I start by reading your documents and the responses of so many people still wonder whether our love for our elders, our children and our love for each other, to pool together our society an example of a civilization to which "financially sound" is a result of People oriented (= Loving) interact.
That should not be so difficult or am I too idealistic?
If there is such a group exists or does anyone know where I can find. I'd like to participate.
Warm Regards,
Kitty
From the heart taken ...
Abundance I experience by pausing to the budding of spring, the birds I hear singing and the life that I feel. That's it, I think. The personal experience of abundance and feeling parts.
I wish everyone a wonderful day filled with riches!
Sincerely yours,
Annemarie Slee
Dear Mr. De Blot, dear Paul,
I have not counted how much the word "money" in your article to read. Money should not be allowed to guiding. We are now dependent on.
In the base will depend on no man, hence no money. In my practice I see the man also on the basis that they change the value of their own counseling afterwards determine. It does not even money. Because money can sometimes be the value that it does not represent. It is the man also on the piece itself must determine what is valuable and it also takes its responsibility. It gives him space because he is more conscious central. Man is leading. I know it's a small step, yet is of great value.
Paul, your column is read with pleasure and hope I can do this often. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Hans Approve
Dear Mr. de Blot,
I can find very in your second last paragraph. We become more aware of our responsibility. What I'm still not what I am of the first part of your column find. Because I see an apparent dichotomy. The powerful and powerless. As if it goes to the perpetrator and the victims. You describe the powerful among others as' big business', 'the consultants, "the" money machines ". However, they are not also authorize form and content provided by many individuals, by many people? The same people who are also aware of their responsibilities.
Finally you write: "All the austerity programs will fail if the people have no room to be human and to develop their own responsibilities. This I read that 'the people' themselves dependent drawing. They need to "get space". But from whom? People would still have to occupy space? Or take their own responsibility and not wait until they get something? And if they do not get it, who is responsible?
Mark Janssen
Dear Mr. de Blot,
Filleted to the bone. what an inspiration. What a special piece and unfortunately the truth.
I'm really curious about responses of these "high" men (in the sauna, we are happy all the same). Whenever I am very touched by your pieces. Recently started in your book Business Spirituality. Also begonen NVC because it says that my communication is quite Adrem. But your pieces provide me proof that this is not quite true what people say of me. Fortunately, I believe myself still. Cause I got lucky a broad experience in many different companies as an administrator and that is for me a very good luggage and of course the great education (relatively free) and a sympathetic second wife with whom I can be who I am.
Dear Mr. de Blot I hope you can pass over a hundred and that we still long should learn from your lessons and enjoy your colums.
Sincerely,
Guido Nafzger
Dear Mr. De Blot,
What can we still be happy with someone like you, with your vision and also proclaims! Now it would still be nice if this could also penetrate into politics and that we actually all together cover can start making ...
Sincerely,
Marjon Parmentier
Dear Mr. Blot,
What a true article. This message is already pronounced, even by respected economists, including Bernard Lietaer. There will, as we continue on this path, a growing underclass created which no longer have the means to come along. The industrial thinking must be transformed. The government and large corporations drive 50km p / h on the highway where the individual riders between 80 and 120 drive when it comes to changes. Was also evident from the programs of Backlight when it comes to transition to sustainability and Zembla when it comes to national health. We must again learn to trust our neighbors and neighbors and an alternative vision to people who dare to speak out. Confidence in government and large corporations is rapidly deteriorated. This is the period of the truth and there will be less hidden sex remain, hopefully they themselves also out in time.
M.vr.gr.
Michael
The documentary 'Zeitgeist Addendum 2 `to see the following link:
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=915643024925961431 #
has revealed a lot to me!
The best Mr Paul Blot,
it makes me incredibly well your newsletters and to read the responses.
word after word, I thought the same as what is written by readers as dooru. I had no idea that there are still so many people want the best for others and want a world that works for everyone is.Dan home until we can speak about a human life.
I am the manager of a company with 13 people. For the past eighteen years I work with consultants on strategy for the company as soon as possible to grow. However, ...
the train was derailed voorige summer. We are fully determined and growth is no more. the problem: people.
It took me the last 9 months many insights given by the constant questioning of where I went wrong. It has put my world on its head.
People from my area does not understand it all and more often say that my midlife crisis coming. Could be, I am also turned 40 but his primary concern earlier about the survey where I really want to go with my life and business. And what do I mean to others. Now we come to values more important than the financial. money is very important, as Goldrath says in his book: the goal, what is important first of a company? money! But ... it is true that if your financial affairs in a row are not simply submerged and no more business on hold. But when is it enough? earn money on the back of another? as you wrote, you try to earn good money by the other "silly" to keep?
During this crisis, I see things happen that really can not: under 2 years ago, with people talking in the beautiful HR forms to have satisfied employees. Performance appraisals were a must for the person to a higher level but I found sometimes oogverblinding make the most of someone sucking.
Now, sudden reorganization of companies, reorganization, shift change: the whole family life is thus overturned. Hear now what the people want or desire. I'm beginning to feel ashamed sometimes when I pronounce the word manager because it goes to compulsively perform at the highest efficiency at the lowest cost. Who is better again?
I am at a crossroads and hope to read your letters and those of others the inspiration to find something nice to build with people around people. If this until midlife crisis is actually much earlier than would have happened!
Regards,
Alex
Dear Paul,
Thank you! Very clear and sincere.
We should not be too optimistic, for they know not what they do!
It takes effort from the comfort of the routine and really take a step. We will have to keep working to correct this "balance" to disrupt, so other possible inspiration. As you often say it must come from below. There is a kind of revolutionary spirit needed to develop motion to compel. Your blog has the tone of this spirit.
Heart Regards, Arnold
Good morning Mr. de Blot. Dear Paul,
In reading your column, I get goosebumps. It is exactly right. The times are already changing. I see now that there are many personal trainers and coaches, as self-employed, their startup company. It has developed many training and education followed for this work from their passion to do. This, the current time, here and now, coincides exactly with what is coming in 2012. The Aquarian Age is already underway, my sense indicates that the turnaround, so 2 points on each pyramid in 2012 will take place.
Just look at the health insurance. This is no longer to accomplish. When I look in the surrounding countries, it is not everything, only the priorities are different.
Medical expenses are lower, less tuition, better care, fewer rules, etc
In the Netherlands, is working with budgets and forms (lists). No budget and that form, too bad. (ISO is a good example)
At this moment many, many, companies in thinking. Just like what a child goes to school and on track to keep running, do not change it, because then you're on the wrong track or dead and you fall off the message. Give it a name HDHD PDDNOs etc etc
So it is with business. The decisions will be enforced from the top (command respect) And there is very poorly communicated BV in the Netherlands. There is not listening
The time that a distressing lack of personal trainers and coaches, which is the spiritual or awareness or have now completed, will increase rapidly after 2012. These people, who now struggle to keep their practice running, experience soon golden times. These are personal trainers, managers and coaches who will help themselves first to dare to look, not the pointing finger to apply. (1 to another and 3 to you) The people enjoy their work and diligently to do. These are the managers and directors of the future that get respect and appreciation for their efforts. Here are also employees to work who like to work with dedication to do, proud of the company where one works. (Passion) These are also the companies that fail at less cost to deliver their work.
Of course there will always be errors remain, only there is a humane way to deal with the problems.
It is therefore at a higher level to communicate, this gives you is not from books. They are donations, which every one is given in the here and now. The one is doing in this way and the other in a different way. There is nothing wrong with that. You are a complement to each other. There is no good better and best spiritually. If you work from your heart, and are honest with yourself have come to terms, you get far. In this time, soul groups find each other again. I speak from experience.
It is no easy way, but a nice way.
Greeting
Eric
Amen. What an inspiring words again. Key words: human and more responsibility. We think the second to create the first to deny, but indeed it is vice versa. This in turn everything to do with trust and that was just the first lesson in high school my teacher at the time of VWB Economics. Economics = Confidence, I still often think of his words!
As I said, Amen.
Thank you Paul, that's exactly it.
I feel often discouraged when I see more and more money is given away to the organization of 'cut' or other things that would be good for the average citizen. But to the ordinary manual work, which is what matters and what one is actually trying to encourage, since the money will not go. I worked several years on behalf of the government to entrepreneurs in an area to encourage more activities for visitors to the area to develop. The entrepreneurs complained, they had enough ideas, but to get money from the government for their development, they had so many conditions that they often midway assignments. Whether there but would rather not begun. Meanwhile, more and more organizations and people by the government put to work / ideas to be hired to invent more activities for that area to develop. I begin, now that I no longer work for the government, always better to understand why entrepreneurs who were so outraged. Entrepreneurs who saw the money from the government to go everywhere, but not to them. That made them that people on government no longer seriously. And rightly so, because those businesses were not taken seriously by the government. You see the same in several areas. The government is a register with lots of money to consultants and program managers open to the average citizen to encourage to do what they think. But that "citizen" (the doers / ondre makers) have not been waiting for and only sees his tax money is spent on bureaucratic geldrondpomperij that does not penetrate. The gap is widening.
Let's hope that more people dare to speak their hearts.