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 moreEstrategia y Cambio: dirigir…¿es dirigir?
I would like to tell you that a couple of weeks ago I found a description of my occupation that I really liked; I liked it much more than ‘director of the orchestra’, which always made me feel somewhat uncomfortable because of that excess of leadership en having the baton in hand. As time passes I am more and more convinced that leading a company is like directing a movie!! The producers-shareholders start the economic workings, following a script-strategy thinking that the public-customer would like to pay to see the finished...
read moreComunication: (1): the briefing
The term ‘briefing’ was first used in the military and it was immediately taken over by the publishing world, about 20 years ago. Briefing: the act of ‘explaining’ what is wanted if we want to say it in a simple way. And the term has been adopted as the act with which anyone, who has the vision of the strategic needs, tells his team where they want to go to. Therefore, the briefing should be one of the key events, originators of the communication. However, the people in most companies have concluded that talking is a way of wasting...
read moreStrategy and Change: confession and dernier virage
“Dernier virage” “PNC aux portes, désarmement des toboggans, vérification de la porte opposée” I’ve heard today … It’s the landing protocol of Air France, and is the end of the end of a process that has kept me immersed in different situations over the past months. A few months full of things … An ongoing and convulsed relationship with Charles de Gaulle Airport, where I have gone through moments of tension, excitement, anxiety and fatigue … A relationship with good people and bad,...
read moreAquel que se esposa fácilmente con la muchedumbre…
Included as a quote in a movie pogram, at the premiere of “An Italian woman, a Bertolucci film, premiered when I was still very young, in 1980. The phrase struck me, beat me, I could never forget them … However, knowing that they were of Baudelaire, I was looking for “the orgy of the masses”, and could not reconnect with those verses. Few days ago I told someone that I read the lines of the hands … And looking from a smile full of wisdom, told me: “Do not worry, you will find it, for sure.” Yesterday,...
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 moreEstrategia y Cambio: del burnout al boreout al knockout
A few days ago, this article appeared in La Vanguardia this article referring to a recently detected new syndrome: the boreout. I believe it is missing a “d”, because in fact it speaks about something like “bored to death”. It is related to the other syndrome, the “burnout”; that is, burnt out by work. The truth is that it is a term I kind of like, because it is a fitting term. There are people utterly bored at work. Bored of not knowing where they are headed to; of not knowing to do; bored of not doing more than going around in...
read moreChange: Because restructuring is a process not a project
Therefore, more than half of the restructures in the world eventually are ‘useless at best and harmful at worst’. That is, they have ephemeral effects and then they fall into the same wells where they first started out. Because ‘to restructure’ is, and I will say it one more time, ”change of structure” It is not to reduce the costs, it is not throwing people in an identical order to disembark from the shipwreck: “the weaker ones, first!”. It is not changing some executive and leave all Information Systems intact; it is not...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: Comunicación horizontal
This post does not mention whispered conversations between sweet lovers although the horizontality of the title may suggest it. This post is the response to a very intelligent question from Claudia Coma, a reader of this Blog, due to the Anticredo post. Her question was: What can we do to promote the Change from non-managerial positions? The truth is, that it is an excellent question. It is a really challenging question. And this was my reply, which I would now like to share: “I will try to answer with my first instinct: share the...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: aptitud, actitud y mis respetos
En lo blogosfera hay muchos colegas que merecen mi admiración y mi respeto; a quienes sigo, de quienes aprendo. Sin embargo, en éste caso, quiero pediros especialmente que veáis éste post de Ergow Hablar de Prevención de Riesgos así, previene además el riesgo de hacer de las empresas sitios invivibles. Y posts como estos, son antídotos impecables. Gracias, Ergow, por el compromiso con tu oficio, por la elegancia, por el cuidado, y adicionalmente, por tu amor por el cine y la música Con todos mis respetos, Gabriela PS.: la película...
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 moreWhat is the KISS?
The KISS is based, in principle on the same concept as the Ockham pocket knife’s concept, to make this approach look erudite. The KISS has 3 derived elements which could roughly be described as follows: The concept of the horse-country logic if being in a room and you hear galloping, it could be a zebra or a gnu; but if you are in Spain it surely is a horse. Question from the police’s principle who benefits from this? Concept of the chrematistic Reasoning : every time you do not understand something, think about ‘money’ Ultimately, the...
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