Author and Harvard University Business School professor Clayton Christensen writes that meeting the pace of change requires taking stock of your organization’s resources, processes and values. This accounting determines whether your organization is up to the challenge.
Critical to these three is values. This typically has an ethical connotation, but it is more than this – It aligns with decision-making, prioritizing, and alignment with strategic direction.
The management of disease in a growing global economy and the visible and unknown impacts of disease outbreaks becomes a value-based decision….and one that can impact the survival of humans and animals directly equal to or perhaps greater than other decisions that our organizations and governments must make.
Globally- and locally-based decision-makers need to take stock of their capabilities for affecting change and figure into this the values that would drive change.
We all, in minute and major ways, have the ability to create influence or ‘influence the influencers’ in affecting change that limits vectors that encourage disease growth. Needed is personal commitment and passion rooted in our value-systems that compels us to create positive change not just for ourselves but for others with less power to create change.