Strategy and Change: Really, it’s Globalization truth?
Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Orleans, Orval, Tours, Nantes, back to Tours, back to Paris to finally go to sleep again at home, in front of the soothing sea of Barcelona … And all that in 9 days. And all that to be able to talk with 6 persons, face to face during no more than 2 hours with some of them. And can all that not be done via a video conference? NO. Can it not be done via e- mail? NO None of the tools of the super-globalized Web 2.0, not even the WEB 200.0 that will come, will allow us to ever substitute what we will learn from someone...
read moreDuring this time….what did I learned?
That firms belong to their owners, but the destinies of their people do not. That’s why the owners can do with companies that best fit, but people can do with their destinies, exactly the same thing. I learned the value of “briefing” and the “debriefing” I learned that learning is an attitude, not an activity. I’ve learned that neural structures are woven on respect, on good manners, on the ability to recognize the other, any other, all the others in their uniqueness, in its entirety, and that this must be...
read moreChange: Men who did not love women
They asked them for sweetened coffee with their university titles They looked more at the girls’ lower back than at their eyes They gave them a position way below their capacities They told the girls to make photocopies to save time They had them sit in the smallest offices They were scolded for being pregnant They were denied well deserved promotions The girls were always called by their names as if they had no last names They doubted their abilities They doubted their skills Their possibilities Their proposals Their attitudes Their...
read moreManagement: quién me enseñó
His name is Roy G. Nice. The G. means George and he is British I do not know where he is now because not even all the Social Networks have allowed me to contact him again, but I hope that he is in some warm and sunny place, playing golf. I was 25 years old and he was my first CEO. I started to work as Regional Responsible of a Spanish subsidiary of a British company, that has a long history and accreditation which was just bought by a Swedish multinational company with important skills in the sector. The gentleman about whom I want to talk...
read morePorque Excelencia…¡no viene de Excel!
No, Sir it does not come from Excel! According to the Dictionary of the Royal Academy, Excellence means: “Superior quality or goodness which makes something worth its particular price or appreciation”. No more and no less. And this post compares this comment by Manuel Granada referring to the use/abuse of Excel in companies. And this post compares this comment Manuel Granada eby Manuel Granada referring to the use/abuse of Excel in companies. Manuel said that he had established as a scale for the efficiency of companies a proportional...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: un bosque de bonsáis
I have been asked this question while people expected an illustrated, learned, profound or maybe even an illuminated answer. I have been asked this question while people expected an answer that would not distribute responsibilities for what occurred until that day, an answer that would provide an alibi. I have been asked that question while they expected to receive comfort and hope in identical doses. The question was: “after these weeks, what have you seen from our Company?” And my answer was sincere, maybe improper in my position but...
read moreAnticredo: Manifiesto por los Valores
You see, a few weeks ago don Juan Granica, asked me some continuity in the collaboration with hisPortal Empresa y Contexto. I explained that every day was harder for me to talk about the fashionable theories of Management , fashionable solutions. fashionable formulas for companies .. He, fearless over the years and with the job of Editor in the blood, he urged me to write, then, really what I felt, and wanted to say about the management and business. This gave theANTICREDO: Manifest for values. The Internet site “Empresa y...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: Las edades del siglo XXI
A ver cómo toco este tema, respetando la norma no escrita de este blog, de evitar “temas politizados”, ni posts kilométricos… El problema para mí no es si la jubilación es a los 65 o a los 67. El problema para mí es el propio concepto de edad en las empresas actualmente. Si las estadísticas dicen que se accede a los primeros empleos alrededor de los 22 años -si no son cualificados- y alrededor de los 27 los cualificados- y la tozuda realidad nos recuerda que cuando un empleado de 50 años pierde su trabajo, cae en el...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: cuando una organización decide pensar
Monday I said that in the Companies, we, the managers get paid to make decisions while thinking.. And today I want to say that bedsides that, one of the most inspiring jobs of a manager is to make that the whole Organization will think. Without fear that they will think different from us, without the need to show them where and how they should think. Without wanting to claim that the Organization should get transformed into a single voice that will always say the same thing and that this should be always what the Management or the shareholders...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: cuando pensar es decidir
We have progressed like someone who has held in his hands Ariadna’s thred to go through the labyrinth … Ergow contributes the example of apprenticeship Andreu wonders about the creativity with the use of tools which are the support of decisions … As always, together, step-by-step we follow a road that is being deployed and which due to “a strategic decision” of this Blog, should never have either an end or a certain conclusion beyond my own convictions which I could share as a blogger. Therefore, in this neuronal construction...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: Cuando decidir es pensar
Yo uso muy a menudo el MindMapping, y lo uso hace años, para pensar mejor, para ordenar ideas, para decidir… Uno de los grands seguidores de Tony Buzan (el creador del concepto), es en España Philippe Boukobza El lo cuenta así [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg862f-PFAQ] Cuando yo juego/pienso con mis ideas, lo hago más o menos así PASO 1 PASO 2 (click sobre la imagen para verla más grande) Y para eso…uso un bloc cuadriculado, o herramientas como ésta (otra Web2.0, por cierto) CLICAR...
read moreNeuronas, redes y Estructuras (5)
The time to celebrate has arrived!! Suddenly the pieces of this giant puzzle that we are building in this Blog, are coming together. Let us see: talking about ‘teams’ our reader Andreu Guimerá, gave the example of the Jazz orchestras. There is no conductor, only a group who are engaged to each other, knowing what the score is. It says this “A couple of days ago I went to a conference by Professor Itamar Rogovski at the UPC: I was surprised about various things but there is one that I remember. He said that the old-time orchestras did...
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