After the financial crisis we are now in a political crisis. Here begins the devils circle. The recovery is again sought in the financial system, which has caused the crisis properly. There is now a different label stuck on the same costly system, namely austerity. Now other agencies benefit. There break the golden age of austerity for business.
In the Daily Press 9 April an article on "Cutting costs is now big business." Kluwer organizes the Fair in Utrecht this study. The consultancy BMC has already hired 24 local authorities and is expected to have a multiple thereof. Consultants make money. Economise costs money, a lot of money estimated. Who pays for that? The citizen who has to economize.
Some or all of these unsuccessful efforts to be seen. Economizing is one side of the story, making money is the other side. If you can not earn too little savings. But money is hardly, because the public is just part of a costly machine. That can only wear and less performance.
In this machine the basic thinking is overlooked, namely that it is 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 training. By saving these opportunities shrinking.
The small businesses that need to bring to life the middle class to be cut off because they no longer can get the necessary appropriations. Or they are swallowed by the expansion of big business. Students also difficult to get the future for education and youth work because there is less money.
The older and sicker you become, the more you have to 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 get the impression that powerful more powerful because they bring money, so they can spend more. That's good for the economy. The high salaries and bonuses in the control group continued unabated often fester.
However, we should not complain because everything has a positive side. The Gulf crisis and the economy 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 expensive, we finally cut it, but often at the expense of the man who has to generate money.
All austerity programs will fail if men are not given room to be human and to develop their own responsibility.
| Kind regards, Paul de Blot Professor of Business Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Cuts,
I myself have a lot in recent years made and while I certainly do not lose sight of what is truly valuable in life and how important it is to maintain a positive attitude as one other in a downward spiral threatens to come.
Engaging in cuts is far too often associated with depression and sadness, thinking,
as a fact that at the time of return to the essence and thus implement strict, working for progress and growth in a new way.
The rediscovery of what is really important to be able to move forward, many business managers seem to see over the head and they are with the passage of their budget cuts less humane,
the balance between 'being' and 'human' is thus still often conditioned the idea of "successful" it.
Too bad ..
Paul Day,
this one (my) small-scale approach.
A vision of leadership!
In essence, you can return 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 the individual level learning center to learn to turn.
At the team level way of dealing with people first turn.
Organisatieniveuau focus on meaning to turn.
How do you use the drug innovation?
Give variation at the individual level.
Give freedom of action at the team level.
Provide sufficient income at the organizational level.
How do you book the result harmony?
By paying attention to atmosphere at an 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;
Learn each individual to learn and offers a variety of then arises atmosphere.
Teach each team to deal with people and give them freedom of action there will be full (disorder) assessment.
Learn to make sense of each organization and will provide sufficient income to the space.
At each level that you communicate that 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 sufficient freedom of action.
Do not miss your space at the organization level? See if there is sufficient attention to meaning and / or sufficient income.
I also believe that learning to learn and deal with people gives a sense of meaning.
Say the ability to enhance support.
Sufficient variety and freedom of action provides sufficient income.
Say the drug innovation efforts.
And full of atmosphere and (disorder) gives a space where you 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 evolving 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 is usually thought.
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 believe the CSF of a civilization: People-oriented thinking, Entrepreneurship, Education and Care. Care for our elderly, our future and our children. Actually you are talking about a safe environment where our children can develop and which provided for the elderly and the sick without this financial strings attached.
I think if we citizens continue to think that we are "only a part of a costly machine," we continue to behave that way and continue to put our fate in the hands of others who are the buttons on this machine. We know the consequences, of course everyone is to blame.
What we hopefully learned is not blind faith to the people who are buds.
Because while you are talking about the other side of the coin: Awareness of personal responsibility. Look, it's the most important part of the solution: In conjunction with taking action, the DO, we can turn the tide:
CHAIN
We are not just 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 laid. Well, you can also your confidence. We are also the ones who can decide who will sit next to those buttons.
TOGETHER
And you are right, I should start with myself and my surroundings. But I start by reading your documents and the responses of so many people, but to wonder if our love for our elderly, 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 (= Lovingly) 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. Here I would like to participate.
Warm Regards,
Kitty
From the heartfelt ...
I experience abundance by equally reflect on the budding of spring, the birds I hear singing and the life that I feel. That's the point, in my opinion. The personal experience feeling of abundance and sharing.
I wish everyone a wonderful day filled with riches!
Yours sincerely,
Annemarie Sled
Dear Mr. De Blot, dear Paul,
I have not counted how much the word "money" in your article to read. Money would not be leading be. We are now dependent on.
The base will depend on no man, hence no money. In my practice I see people change also on the basis that 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 man who on this document itself may determine what is of value 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, read your column with great pleasure and hope I can do this often. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Hans Inspection
Dear Mr. de Blot,
I can find in your very last second paragraph. We become more aware of our responsibility. What I am still not what I first think of your column. Because I see an apparent dichotomy. The powerful and powerless. Perpetrators and victims as if they were going. You describe the powerful among as large companies, "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 austerity programs will fail if the people have no space to be human and to develop their own responsibility." This I read that "the people" will depend up. They need to "get space". But whose? People would still have room to take? Or 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 actually looking forward to responses of these "high" men (in the sauna, we are happy all the same). Every time I am very touched by your pieces. Recently started in your book Business Spirituality. NVC also began because one says that my communication is quite Adrem. But your pieces make me proof that this is not quite true what people say of me. Fortunately, I believe myself still. I am happy because a broad experience in many different companies as an administrator and for me that is 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 more than one hundred and we have been able to learn your lessons and enjoy your colums.
Sincerely,
Guido Nafzger
Dear Mr. De Blot,
What can we be happy with someone like you, with your vision and also proclaims! Now it would still be nice if it could also penetrate into the politics and all together we really can start making the change ...
Sincerely,
Marjon Parmentier
Dear Mr. Blot,
What a true article. This message has been previously stated, even by respected economists, including Bernard Lietaer. There will be, if 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 when it comes to driving change. Was also clear 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 people who dare to express alternative views. Trust in government and large corporations has rapidly deteriorated. This is the period of the truth and will increasingly be hidden, hopefully she will themselves out in time.
M.vr.gr.
Michael
The documentary 'Zeitgeist Addendum 2' to see through the following link:
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=915643024925961431 #
has revealed a lot to me!
Mr. Paul De Blot best,
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 many people want the best for others and the world to work for everyone is.Dan home until we can speak of a decent life.
I am manager of a company with 13 people. For eighteen years I work with consultants on strategy for the company as soon as possible to grow. But, ...
that train was derailed voorige summer. We are fully determined and growth is no longer. The problem: people.
It has given me the last nine months many insights given by the constant questioning of where I went wrong. It has put my world on its head.
People from all around me understand more and not often say that my midlife crisis coming. Could be, I am also 40 but it became more about him questioning where I really want to go with my life and business. And what do I mean to others. Now we come to value more important than the financial. Money is very important, as Goldrath says in his book: the goal, what is the first interest of a company? Money! But ... it is true that if your business is not financially in a row are simply submerged and no company is more about love. But when is it enough? earn money on the back of another? as you wrote, try to earn good money by the other "silly" to keep?
During this crisis, I see things happening that really can not do until two 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 some dazzling to maximize someone to suck.
Now, sudden reorganization of companies, reorganization, shift change: all this messed up family life. Hear now what the people want or desire. I'm starting to feel ashamed sometimes when I pronounce the word manager as it heads for the highest return compulsively to perform at the lowest cost. Who will get better from here?
I'm standing on a turntable and hope to read your letters and those of others the inspiration to find something beautiful building 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 a step. We'll have to keep working to correct this "balance" to disturb, 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 enforce. Your blog has the tone of this spirit.
Heart Regards, Arnold
Good morning Mr. de Blot. Dear Paul,
In reading your column, I get goose bumps. It is exactly right. The times were already changing. I see now that there are many trainers and personal coaches, as self-employed, starting their business. It has developed many courses and training for this work followed 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, I feel, 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 priorities are different.
Medical costs are lower, lower tuition, better care, fewer rules, etc.
In the Netherlands, is working with budgets and forms (lists). And no funding or form, too bad. (ISO is a good example)
At this moment many, many, companies in the mind. Just like a child who goes to school and on track to keep walking, do not change that, because then you're on the wrong track or dead end and fall outside the message. Give it a name HDHD PDDNOs etc etc
So it is with the business. The decisions will be enforced from the top (command respect) And there is very poorly communicated in BV Netherlands. It is not listened
The time that a blatant lack of personal trainers and coaches, which is the spiritual or awareness, or are completed, will increase rapidly after 2012. These people, who now struggle to keep their practice running, live golden years later. These are personal trainers and coaches managers to help themselves first to dare to look, do not apply the pointing finger. (1 to 3 and another for you) The people enjoy their work and diligently to do. These are the managers and directors of the future that will respect and appreciation for their efforts. There are also people who work like to work with dedication to do, proud of the company they work for. (Passion) These are also the companies that fail at less cost to deliver their work.
Of course there will be bugs remain, there is only a human way to deal with the problems.
It is therefore at a higher level to communicate, this book gives you not. These are abilities, which everyone is given in the here and now. The one doing it this way and others another way. There's nothing wrong with that. You complement each other. There is no good better and best spiritually. If you work from your heart, and are honest with yourself you've come to terms, you get far. This time, soul groups find each other again. I speak from experience.
It is not an easy road, but a nice way.
Greeting
Eric
Amen. Which in turn inspiring words. Key words: human and responsibilities. We think the second to create the first to deny, but it's actually the other way. This in turn everything to do with trust and that was just the first lesson in high school my teacher vwb Economy of time. Economics = Trust, I still often think of his words!
Like I said, Amen.
Thank you Paul, that's exactly it.
I often feel 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 regular manual work, that what is relevant and what is actually trying to promote, that's not the money 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 be developed. 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 halfway tasks. Or is it better not to start. Meanwhile, more and more organizations and people by the government put to work / hired to invent ideas for more activities for that area to develop. I begin, now that I no longer work for the government, more and better understand why these companies were so outraged. Entrepreneurs who saw the money from the government to go everywhere, but not to them. That meant that they no more people on government 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 lot of money with a registry of advisors and program managers open to "citizens" to stimulating to do what they think. But that 'citizen' (the doers / ondre makers) have not been waiting, and only sees his tax money is spent on bureaucratic geldrondpomperij, which does not penetrate. The gap is widening.
Let's hope that more people dare to speak their hearts.