Vive la evolution!

Getting our message out there is easier and more difficult than we expected it to be. Easier because we have mostly been preaching to the choir; people who already think something worthwhile is happening. Vive la revolution! More difficult because just outside our own group, most parties we talk to have not come to this conclusion, or do not want to get it and lack the curiosity to explore. Letting go of the bars that hold you is a painful process.

It’s all well and good to find confirmation with people who agree with us, and who comfort us and give us a warm and fuzzy feeling by belonging to a group. In the end what matters is that what we see as essential - to awaken an entrepreneurial spirit and have fun innovating together - is shared by a critical mass of people. A critical mass that takes our ideas a step further and starts bringing in more and more people, until finally we have achieved what we want by evolution instead of revolution.

Most people lack our curiosity and are happy with the way things are going; never touch a working system, we have always done it this way, et cetera. This is fact, not condemnation! Resistance to change is a fact of life, even if the grass is greener on the other side. We need to find a path where people feel safe and need to provide quick wins to keep them on it. I am not one of those people who say that the journey is more important than the destination. If you say that about Rome, you have never been there! I do however agree on there being more ways then one to Rome, in which case we’d better pick the fun one.

To those we try to convince this might seem condescending, but since they do not read this blog and I am preaching to my own choir, I will leave you with the assignment to find ways to include people and make us as much a part of them as we try to make them a part of us!