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Feb 28, 2010
Thoughts

Crisis

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No great city, company, person or government  is anything without crisis. Crisis -when overcome – proves determination and resolve. It hardens the mettle, stiffens the spine. It makes us work, innovate, improvise and toughen up.

New York had the 1970’s Bankruptcy. San Francisco the 1906 Earthquake. The London Fire. Montreal’s October Crisis. Barcelona under Franco. Santiago under Pinochet. The Occupation of Paris. Berlin and The Wall. The list goes on and on.

Some are minor hassles, others insurmountable. Most fall somewhere in between. The challenge is figuring out what type of crisis your city faces and if it’s a crisis at all. If it is a crisis, then the challenge is to convince people to change.

It’s hard, but there is one thing you’ve got on your side: Crisis and change go hand in hand. Crisis is an agent of change. In fact, it is The Agent of Change. After all, you can’t change things in good times, only bad. The trick is figuring out the changes that bring calm and the changes that only bring more crisis.

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