councils Fernando Parrado, survivor the Andes 'The important thing is after work'
shocked executives at Expo Management 2500 with a recommendation, supported by the family
Thursday October 30, 2008 What does
speaker today fill an auditorium of 2500 executives and entrepreneurs, many with their wives and children, and talk for an hour and a half without a fly fly?
Fernando Parrado, one of 16 survivors of the tragedy of the Andes, to 36 years in the story that shocked the world yesterday got more than that, move to a business forum and business training to convey the simple morals that left to live 72 days in the Cordillera without food or water.
was during the closing day of ExpoManagement 2008. His presentation, no cheap shots monologue accompanied by videos and images of the mountain, had two very different stages. In the first narrated, with an intimate story full of anecdotes, that marked the moments of that odyssey to 4000 meters where he lost much of their friends, and his mother and sister. 'How is it possible to survive which do not survive?' He asked. 'We survived because there were leadership, decision making and team spirit because we knew long before, "he said. He threw a first-timer. 'In life, the luck factor is fundamental. When I arrived at Montevideo airport gave no seat number for the plane. I happened, by chance, row 9, with my best friend. When the plane crashed into the mountain, broke in two. Row 9 for nothing was left behind. The 29 survivors were on first impression the party was safe. " 'of them? Said?, 24 did not suffer a scratch. Thus, the less shocked they began to help by acting as a team. Administer chocolate bars and peanuts to eat a grain point for hours each. Marcelo, our captain and leader, took his role to hold us when we asked what happened that did not reach the rescue. We decided to hold on. " But days later the leader collapsed. The radio brought the news that he had completed the rescue. 'How would you react? ? Challenged the audience. The leader bankrupt, depressed and leaves to be. Imagine if I close this room, under the temperature to -14 degrees without food or water waiting who dies first. " Eerie silence of the first to the last row.
'Then I realized that the universe does not care what happens to us. Tomorrow the sun will rise and will as ever. Therefore, we had to make decisions. At night we said 12 or 13 with one of the boys: "What are you thinking?" "Just as you. We have to eat, and proteins in the body. "We made a pact between us, was the only option. We face a stark truth and inhumane. "
From the first row, dozens of children taken by their parents listened open-mouthed. Parrado appealed to traditional concepts of business. "There was planning, strategy development. Each one began to do something useful, to help us stay alive: shoes, sticks, small human expeditions. We know our icy prison. "
'Till I chose for the final issue, because the mountain was killing us, weaken us, we had food. Terrified climbed to the top of the mountain with Roberto Canessa. We thought there see the green valleys of Chile and met with snow and mountains to 360 degrees. I decided that walking would die there somewhere. "
Then came the most unexpected moment. 'This is not the story I came to tell, "he warned. And he told his real story began to return home without her mother and sister, not his childhood friends and his father as a couple again. ' "Crisis? What crisis talk to me? "Stress? What stress? Stress is to be dead at 6000 meters without food or water, "he stressed. recalled a fundamental dialogue he had with his father, who said, 'Look forward, go after that girl you liked, tené life and work. I made the mistake of not telling your mother so much for being so busy. " Y closed, specified: 'The companies are important, the work is, but what is truly valuable is at home after work: the family. Do not forget those who have at hand, they do not know what will happen tomorrow. " An endless standing ovation fired him
DO NOT GIVE UP .... ...
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