Change starts with everyone of us

“You must be yourselves promoters of the change you wish to see in the society.

The idea of being able to change things will remain an utopia until each of us decide to do their part. We have to get up every day and decide to do something in a different way from what we've done so far, in our work as in life. Do not wait for someone to tell you, that a directive arrives on the desk or an email on your pc. Do it by yourself.

Rather than fighting the existing reality, with inefficiency and bureaucracy, think of a new and more modern model, which makes that reality obsolete. Do not let someone else define your way. Make it your own.

Build yourself a path, follow it, draw it entirely again whenever you want. But start today, right now. Accept the challenge of the unknown and risk. You will make mistakes, you will fall, but you will have acquired the strength and courage to stand up and change again. You will have the experience to start over. Above all, you will have broken the spell of inaction.

The hopes for the future are in the hands of people who do. To all those who, from any layer of the society they come from, they decide to fight back, to engage and get into play.”

The author of these words is Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of FIAT SpA and President and CEO of Chrysler Group LLC, in an article published few days ago by La Stampa, one of the most important Italian daily newspaper. His aim was to stimulate a reaction in Italian society, that seems generally defeated by the economic but also social and cultural crisis. His advice is, in other words, a push to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to face all the life challenges, not just the work ones. Being reactive, creative, motivated, are all part of the entrepreneurs attitudes that Carla and me are trying to share in Italy and all around the world. Because we strongly think that this is the only way to improve people's lives. So let's start the change, all together!