Business meets academia... (so what?)
Funny how we all speak the same language and yet cannot understand one another... It ocurred to me tonight, while listening to a speech given by a well-respected Romanian economist in front of a 100% business audience. Though he was tackling current world economic developments, nobody seemed to give a damn. I suppose most were thinking of tomorrow's day at work or the night's promise. Anyway, they seemed obtuse, had another sandwich when he left and continued their networking unabated.
The point is that what we lack in the Romanian businesses is vision. Most of the people in business today are carefully focusing on their footsteps and fail to lift their look to the horizon. They prefer to chew every day like it was any day and simply ignore anything that gets them to think beyond the year's turnover. It's the same with us "mortals" (aka "sclavi pe plantatie"): we keep dragging on each day thinking only of the next step (or automatically taking it). Looking at the horizon and pondering how the future may look, taking a breath of fresh air and enjoying it... Doing this more often might feeble the rows of the grey people.
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Dear dear,
Sometimes back in the 70's, Metakides, a greek mathematician with guts to deal with Prolog :-), said something like : "build the right system, build the system right".
I do not totally agree with you, I don't think that really all romanian business lack vision.
Just that, sometimes, in the timelife of a "system", some people are helped to position themselves and therefore affect the "building" process in such a way, that sometimes the vision itself gets out of the path.
I gues it is actually happening everywhere in this world ... and it is just our image, as romanians, that everywhere else is perfect, but here :-) ? Gray androids are everywhere in the civilized Europe, and some said that they actually form the basis of a consuming society. I cannot stop myself thinking to a Pink Floyd video ... hm, gray or pink androids ?
Let me think more :-).
Brave start kiddo, keep it up !
Hi Romulus,
when something is missing you cannot usually identify only one place where it's missing, even less generalise and say everyone's missing it /eg the vision.
However, workaholism is only one side of the cube. It's the inability to think and feel past the bits of the day that drives us into despair.
enya
ps: Keep writing, and I'll keep replying :)
"Many people get caught up in day-to-day living and put their dreams on hold"
(John King, Media Planner, Fallon Worldwide)
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