Un mot clé pour Haïti: vision
Dans la lignée de mon dernier billet sur Haïti, j’ai trouvé par hasard ce texte (en anglais) sur la vision et en le lisant je trouvais qu’il s’appliquait bien à la situation. Présentement la survie, prend toute la place, le présent est: se couvrir, manger, boire, les besoins à la base de l’échelle de Maslow quoi! Mais dans peu de temps, et ce ne sera pas long, les gens vont avoir besoin d’un leadership inspirant, mobilisateur de la part de leur dirigeants. Le court texte de Michael Hyatt donne une piste. J’aime bien sa conclusion:
When times are Tough, vision is the first casuality. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
Vision of any organization, it is what keeps it moving forward. It provides meaning to the day-to-day challenges and setbacks that make up the rumble of real life.
In a down economy, particularly one that has taken most of us by surprise, things get very tactitcal. We just trying to survive. What worked yesterday does not nécessarily work tomorrow. Decisions become pragmatic.
But after a while this wears on people. They don’t know why their efforts matter. They cannot connect their actions to a larger story. Their work becomes a matter of just going trough the motions, living from weekend to weekend, paycheck to paycheck.
This is where great leadership makes all the différence. Leadership is more than influence. It is about reminding people of what it is we are trying to build, and why it matters. It is about painting a picture of a better future. It comes down to pointing the way and saying : ‘’C’Mon, We can do this.’’
When times are Tough, vision is the first casuality. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.
Michael Hyatt CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers
Salut Robert,
Merci de nous fournir ce texte inspirant.
Il s’applique à Haïti bien sûr, mais à chacun de nous quand tout va mal et, à notre firme, qui est à se sortir vaillamment d’une période turbulente. Ce que ce texte nous rappelle au fond c’est que les valeurs, le subtil, le spirituel deviennent la vraie force quand le superficiel, le matériel craque!
L