Huffington Post
February 24, 2011
Yesterday's massive strike in Greece and the thousands of people who demonstrated in the center of Athens and many other Greek cities proved once again that Greece is under an unprecedented "social war" that no one knows when it will end. Greek society is dominated by anger against the unfair and tough austerity measures implemented by the government, which seems to have lost its credibility and support by the people.
Although the Prime Minister George Papandreou expressed his sympathy to the demonstrators, it is likely that he is not aware of what the potential risk for his personal leadership is. The phenomenon of these extreme social reactions can be interpreted by people's usual resistance to any kind of change which puts in danger and curtails their collective and personal interests. And that is what is now happening in Greece.
The public rage seen yesterday in one of the biggest protests that has occurred over the last years was not random and, certainly , not the last one. In one of his lectures in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, my Professor Mr. Marty Linsky highlighted to me the fact that people are mostly unprepared for the world in which they now live. Thus, the role, of a real leader is not to be focused on what we call technical problems but on adaptive challenges. Greek people will become more and more furious unless the government and, particularly, the leader of that country, Mr. Papandreou, decides to face these difficult adaptive challenges for which Greek society is unprepared.
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