Sorting Out Causes And Effects by Andres Agostini (Andy)

1 COMMENTS: SORTING OUT CAUSES AND EFFECTS You’re so right, Mr. Peters. No, insist roughly on it. Why? It’s the right thing to do. I will comment on something that I am seeing happen all over.

2 I see top CEOs, managers, entrepreneurs, and, in general, good people as seemingly absent-minded. In the meantime, they hold grave responsibilities. Too many of them, including clinicians at work. That’s why the communication process these days require a lot. We took our own mother to the best medical doctors available to us. One was a

3 prestigious clinician. Another was a lung expert. There was also a psychiatrist, since she felt in deep sadness. Many clinical assessments were practiced to here. For some reason, these doctors all looked somewhere between concerned with their own lives and falling themselves into own clinical depressions.

4 I told my brothers that all those doctors were—to me—in some degree undergoing clinical depression. How can this happen, one might ask? The critical patient being treated by this “bunch” of other patients? The zenith of irresponsibility to be kind. The psychiatrist, also an anthropologist, is an expert on death, family losses, anxiety, and so forth. He has four MBAs in his field of

5 practice. One was in “mourning psychiatry” and he studied it in Freud’s university at London. His face was a phantom of his own. None of these MDs wished to, say, TAKING MY MOTHER AS A PATIENT FULLY, responsibly. They were out of it. They were avoiding the issue rampantly. All the way through, there was an extreme lack of

6 competency and skill in these “renowned professionals.” I use this dramatic, real story because it is eloquent that something deep is taking place indeed. I have increasingly seen it with clients and potential customers alike. So have I seen it with university professors and many other relevant incumbents.

7 My theory is that many of them are upset with themselves and don’t know why. The swirl of change-- extremely underestimated by some sectors-- has told them unambiguously that it is impossible to assume PAST as a SCRIPT for PRESENT and FUTURE. Times of BLUR and BLURRING are all over. Subsequently, they stiff remained within (a) their areas of specialization, and (b) outside

8 the gravest points of inflections after 9/11 (et. al.). Many don’t get it and it is a tragedy. THEY REMAINED GLUED TO SUPERFICIALITY, CRITIQUING AND CRITIQUING AND CRITIQUING WITHOUT FIRST RESEARCHING WHAT HAS CHANGED. Gary Hamel said in his 2000-year book, “Whoever is not paying attention has no

9 right to complain that he [/she] does not understand the world’s spirit and how it had to be understood now….,” REGARDLESS OF HOW DIFFICULT TO DIGEST NEW PARADIGMS ARE. Hamel, too, asks, How long a patient is going to be admitted into a hospital as if this persona were a sentenced criminal? I am not fond of this extreme change. It is not that I like it per se. It’s, rather, that either

10 I get and adjust or will not make it. Why? Because the worldwide systems, including globalization (among other powerful, driving forces), don’t allow a single citizen to call the shots on behalf of 7 billion people. Even the UN is powerless to begin with. So, either one adapts or transcends, physically. Why many first responders did ZERO / INCONSEQUENTIAL (the most essential) to

11 countermeasure the terrible consequences of the Katrina Hurricane? I am into preparedness, disruption mitigation, restoration, and “business continuity.” Shouldn’t there be some “persona continuity” (with dignity)? Some pundits have started studying the case (Katrina) and were concerned because many first responders, in the strictest

12 hierarchical order, did not react AT ALL to the directions from the “chain of command.” People at large, in many place, are focused on the dispersed. And there is too much to be unconcentrated. I see this more and more and it looks as a societal illness. As if it were taking shape—to some extent—a collective depression.

13 Those aforementioned (and in charge of their lives ???) have prominent jobs and families. At least, they do have that. Why do they not revise via professional service those states of malaise portrayed on their faces? I see this growing and growing everywhere. Clearly, this subject matter (“CHANGE IMPACT”) requires an in-depth, multidisciplinary study NOW. Mr. Peters, I thank you for the

14 Warren Bennis’ quote(s). I agree with them fully. Appreciate your efforts to make your wisdom easier to access and discern. By the way, your own self-motivation is of great inspiration to me and many. Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at May 14, 2008 6:52 PM

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