Section I — Change
It was the busiest hour of a Saturday night. The restaurant was full, people were waiting outside, and an employee came running to tell me that the leading actress from Morangos com Açúcar was eating there. Even a star like her had come. It seemed the buffet was the right road. Suddenly, I had confidence.
Two months earlier, I owed the staff two months’ wages. I borrowed ten thousand euros and paid everyone. “Starting tomorrow, we do buffet,” I told them. “We will save the restaurant with low prices.”
That Saturday, after supper, I told everyone to leave the “battlefield” until morning. I poured a whisky. It burned a little as it went down. That was the excitement of seeing success. On television, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was being replayed. I was thirty-five and had been in Portugal for ten years. There were still many memories to tell.
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Transformation
Regret disappears. With trust, change the mandate. Good fortune. — Zhou Yi · Ge, line 4
Ge links change with trust. Overdue wages were paid before the buffet proposal; employees could assess the new situation and retain their own choices, including returning home.
A full restaurant brought confidence without making every earlier decision inevitably right. The account’s value lies in meeting obligations and experimenting while success was still uncertain.
Reading in briefTrust in change begins with responsibility before success.What stays with you here?
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