Civil society and “the hand that rocks the cradle”
Organized civil society faces several challenges:
- An indifferent government to the activity of the call Third sector and he must understand that: “the exercise of government is too great and important to be left in the hands of politicians, it is a noble and superior activity that concerns us and summons us all” Luis H. Álvarez.
- The brutal impact on our lives by the endless pandemic that has become a syndemic (the sum of two or more epidemics), caused by the virus COVID-19, with effects that will remain and we will have to know how to survive in the face of them, obviously in health, in the economy of companies, individuals and families.
- The accelerating impact of digital technology, which leads us to be forced to align ourselves according to our reality, from home to the place of study and work, crossing through dozens of activities that have migrated to this digital technology that sooner or later was going to arrive and arrived in a forced way.
- The myths about organized civil society, which must be overcome since if we do not act in partnership with leadership, integrity, creativity and energy, we will endanger the future of the nation
All this has caused the life and activity in general of every person, company or organization of civil society related to the information orientation, communication, knowledge, decision making and value delivery is gibberish, and before this we are obliged to look for the ways to guarantee our survival and a competitive future.
“The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”
We are convinced that what has disordered our lives as people, as a society and a country are, among others, two variables expressed as: the lack of a risk culture and unifying leadership.
Risk culture
In this decade 2021-2030, the geopolitical risks and technological transformations, they will require people and organizations in general to deepen their risk management.
COVID-19 is exacerbating ongoing geopolitical and social challenges, and the existential crisis of climate change looms large. More innovative and collaborative approaches to resilience are needed more than ever. Global Risk Report 2021. Marsh
We add to that necessary risk culture: study, research and necessary training in related areas such as:
- Social, business and civic responsibility.
- Environmental sciences and sustainable development
- Anthropology, political science, demography, economics, psychology, sociology
- Biotechnological engineering, logistics, mechatronics
- Intelligence, Security, Cybersecurity and Geopolitics
Digital communication, technology and computing
The latter are essential since they drag and force others to align themselves with them, and they evolve second by second for all organizations regardless of their size, generating great challenges and causing inhumane gaps in health, economy, knowledge, etc.
Leadership
Undoubtedly each and every one of us is responsible for the path we take, especially if we are functional adults, however, in crises of all kinds: family, political, economic, social, it is necessary to hear a voice that towards the effort and deployment of resources in general in order to be successful or at least not so diminished.
The leadership that we admit to these challenges has a profile, – regardless of race, sex, age, religion, or political ideology – the skills or competencies necessary that allow lead with integrity, marking viable paths, seeking unity, with solid energy and a definite heading. There are multiple examples in the history of mankind, one of them is: “Dunkirk: the victorious defeat of Winston Churchill “
Let us remember this passage in world history known as the landing in Dunkirk, which has been the most famous retreat of the WWII, when some 330,000 soldiers they subsisted besieged on the beaches of the port city of Dunkirk (in Spanish) in northern France by the devastating Nazi advance of Adolf Hitler’s Germany.
Those thousands of soldiers from the British, French and Belgian forces of continental Europe, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, managed to reach the evacuation and this thanks to the leadership of Winston Churchill, who enunciated a clearly defined action plan of a vision accompanied by actions easy to understand by anyone, expressed with iintegrity, energetic leadership seeking unity with civil society and a defined course; This statement was exposed Churchill in Parliament on June 4, 1940, the last day of the rescue.
The British press reported the successful evacuation, especially the role of the “Little Dunkirk Ships”, Which assisted in the official evacuation. Many of them were private vessels, such as fishing boats and yachts and commercial vessels. The term “Spirit of Dunkirk” refers to the solidarity of the British people in times of adversity, and to the clear and forceful call of Winston Churchill.
Leadership is urgently sought
Of not finding a unifying national leadership, the civil society organized cannot and should not “guard down”, and is obliged, as it has done in major national problems (earthquakes of 1985 and 2017), it has to find from an organized, collaborative and participatory vision the way to group in time and form the corrective and dissemination criteria in health matters , economy, finance, and forcing the rulers to follow the appropriate course at the national level. We cannot wait as values are highly valued for our society, among others.: Well-being, security and freedom, in a few words the present and future of our nascent generations.
Reflection
“The organizations of civil society, a phenomenon in itself that feeds on the eternal desire of people to connect and participate in the great problems and opportunities of the country”
In this year of 2021, a decade began in which “We are facing variables with central impacts on the culture of organizations, which will force us to change programs or mental software”, and at a time when that people will “Be more human” which will allow us to think of solidarity as a basic common good.