Steering Team Reflections

Hey dudes,

My collegues seem to be really lazy with blogging... So let me share some of my thoughts and things that are currently happening in my life. I already can here the team bitching about it: "of course I cannot post something, I dont have time. You as the president anyway dont have a lot of things to do, thats why you are all the time blogging and making videos."

anyway, my general thought is that I had a reason to apply for MCP - beeing able to blog was not really included, but it is a nice side effect.

so. I am sitting here in the newly arranged AI office, our headquarter in Rotterdam. actually I think it is really looking better than before, they have a nice carpet, they have some relaxation area, etc.
but I think they main beauty part in this office is the diversity of the people. To have a multicultural team is easily said, but the atmosphere and the beauty that comes out of it is undescribable.

In steering team meetings I have the pleasure to sit at the same table with the following nationalitities: Estonia, Canada, US, UK, Venezuela, India, Poland, Turkey, Hong Kong - truly global. Still it is impressive how similar the mindsets are when it comes to crucial discussions. The variety of viewpoints and perspectives doesnt change the common mindset of the people at the table. I doubt that the ambition represented in this table is copyable, is applicable in any other organisation or enterprise. If you ask me what makes AIESEC unqiue it would be something like I described it above - although the viewpoints everybody is adding to the discussions are diverse, controversial, sometimes lead to hard debates - the ambition of everybody still is the same.

The level of discussion culture in a multicultural environment, the deep talks, the courage to not only scratch the surface, to dig deeper, to discover more about what is beneath us. Not beeing afraid of blowing away walls, not beeing afraid of saying NO, not beeing afraid of saying YES, not beeing afraid to express every single view point even if you are the only one standing out of a million people... no hesitating, not resisting, not compromising with what one really wants, letting it go, crying, lauging, loving

Isn't that the true soul of our organisation: Opening eyes, opening arms, opening ourselves to discover more about who we and the others actually are?

The opportunities that lie beyond us are amazing. discover