Communities are living things. Some with as crab, ranging pa'trás, often as the amoeba, malleable and adaptable, often as a fluorescent, switch on and off fast, often as the waves that rise and fall depending on the tide; other like a rocket, rise much until they are not, others are like a well of water, pull the hub deep well to draw something, and others are finely orchestrated as a landscape with valleys and mountains, rivers and lagoons, beaches and wetlands, inspiring sunrises and sunsets and a constant push for development and progress.
Progressive communities and developers are smart cities, not only in their technological capabilities but also their human capacity. At the same time, the only way to preserve and promote the continued development is through the presence of performance standards and by implementing rules that help in implementing those standards. When there is no rules or standards or intelligence we have a continuous chaos, or giddy performance as cows run free.
The jump from chaos to steady and continuous development is complex, but it is possible through the action of a powerful element in any community mainly: the change agent. The change agent is the individual, male or female, interested in the profound transformation of things. Is the person whose vision is geared towards the transformation through ideas, talents, abilities, skills and resources himself or others, putting them in favor of service and the common good.
A change agent is not the person who talks a lot without contributing anything significant, though possessing great wealth or is exalted in social or political position. Nor is the person who solves complex problems with patches in the community. Nor is the person impassive, inert, which lets you search for other solutions or the implementation of plans and projects.
By nature, the change agent does not have all the answers, not all resources, not all ideas. The change agent is not the change itself, but encourages and sponsors the communion of energies between different people but interested in the common good. The change agent uses the experience and knowledge you may have to push and to bring to the analysis of situations of concern, confident that others can take "the bull by the horns", either because they have better qualities or resources more feasible. The central purpose behind the actions of an agent of change is transformation.
Although it may be, the traditional policy is not, by nature, a good agent of change because it tends to be in the center of everything. Neither is the traditional leader, autocratic, covered in a political, social or religious. Best Actor change is a promoter of ideas, strengths, resources and skills in the other, seeking ways to channel them, sometimes through the provocation caused by an idea or a possibility, sometimes by seeking responses to extreme and complex conditions caused by disability and inefficiencies of the prevailing system. Above all, the change agent often start something and leave it in the hands of the most knowledgeable and capable, for true change, a profound transformation, not centered on the actions of one person but in conjunction of the best ideas from the most capable and knowledgeable.
A community without change agents remains in the hands of opportunists and demagogues, or is tied to a course self-destructive. communities, like most things that are left to fend for themselves tend to degenerate, not better. change the course of things requires the continuous action of good agents of change. Today more than ever, Las Terrenas need visionary change agent, brave and true.
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