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Peter Senge dixit:
But usually in my experience great entrepreneurs have a very different kind of impulse. I remember asking years ago C.K. Pahalak. You may know him from his writing in strategy. He was at that time just moved to California. This was in the middle of .com-boom. He wanted to be there, he wanted to live it, he wanted to see it from the inside. So he lived 2 or 3 years in California. And he was a chairman of a start up company and an advisor to many other entrepreneurs. And I asked him: C.K., if you read the press, somewhere in 97-98. If you ask people who read the normal business pages and ask what motivates entrepreneurs the answer is very obvious from the business press. They want to become fabulous and wealthy. They want to make lots of money. What motivates them is this kind of a desire, maybe even an extreme greed. And I never forget his response as I said: So do you believe that money is the prime motivator of entrepreneurs? And he said: Oh yes I do. For all the mediocre ones. He said: I have never met a great entrepreneur, in fact he used the term serial entrepreneur (someone who creates multiple enterprises over their career) who didn’t have the same fundamental motivation. The motivation, he said, is to change the world. And all of them pretty much figured if they did it well they will make money and that was great and that will really help what they are doing and that wasn’t like they were different. Saints that would like to give away all of their money. They weren’t very different about that. But this point he was making about this impulse, this deep impulse to change the world. It is exactly what I think people in developing country context are saying, when they say we need a culture of entrepreneurialism.
Últimamente he leido tres libros que apuntan en esta misma dirección: La vida de Jesucristo versión Pagola, la biografía de José María Arizmendiarrieta de Fernando Molina y las cartas escritas por la Madre Teresa de Calcuta a sus diversos directores espirituales. Tres grandes personas, ¿líderes?, pero sobre todo generosos emprendedores que sí, cambiaron el mundo con sus obras.
Pero me gustaría parar un momento en ese “deep impulse” que subraya Senge. ¿En qué consiste?
No conozco el caso de Jesucristo, pero las otras dos personas, quizás por ser pelín más terrenales, aluden a su desmesurada lucha por aplacar su orgullo, su soberbia. Resulta curioso, sobre todo, porque puertas afuera se caracterizaron precisamente por su humildad, por su capacidad para empatizar con lo que les rodeaba y su fuerza para generar entornos sociales más humanos e igualitarios desde la nada.
¿Por qué tienen tan mala prensa el orgullo y la soberbia? ¿No serán éstos “pecados” (entre otros) los que, bien canalizados, se convierten en ese profundo impulso que les lleva a transformar el mundo?
En este contexto, con este batiburrillo de reflexiones, no puedo evitar pensar en Koldo Saratxaga, al que yo, sin conocerle de nada, le percibo soberbio. Pero, ¡toma la que ha montado! (y lo digo en positivo). Bendita soberbia.
Luego me miro a mi, y me pregunto… zu zer? zerk mugitzen zaitu?
y a ti, lector, ¿QUÉ IMPULSO TE MUEVE?
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