Change: Because restructuring is a process not a project

Change: 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...

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Estrategia y Cambio: ¿dónde ha de situarse el CEO? (3)

Listening. Outside his office. With meetings where he does not preside at the table. With an agenda that contains 3 days off per week, at least. Learning the name of his employees (even if there are hundreds, it is not impossible). To be in his office just when no one is around in the company. Walking through the company, the stores, the laboratories or any other place where the center of business is produced, right then when they are closed. That is where the CEO...

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Estrategia 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...

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Estrategia 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...

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Estrategia 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...

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Neuronas, Redes y Estructuras (6)

Y para que este Blog recupere su línea de reflexión, contamos ni más ni menos que con la ayuda de….la General Motors!! Veréis: el pasado 21 de diciembre, General Motors, que pasa por ser el gran gigante desmoronado por la Crisis que nos acuna, ha nombrado un nuevo Director Financiero, el Sr. Chris Liddell. Y claro…con mi curiosidad natural, le eché un vistazo a la noticia de su nombramiento Y cual no fue mi sorpresa al ver que tal caballero, viene ni más ni menos que de Microsoft!! Si señor, del gigante de la información...

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Neuronas, 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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Estrategia y Cambio: ¿Equipos o redes?

It is true I do not like the word ‘team’ when talking about the people who make up a company. It will sound politically incorrect, but it is true. I do not believe in teams, or in exercises of team building, nor in the theories about working teams, teams that lead projects, teams for everything. I do not believe in phrases like ‘we are a pineapple, ‘we are like a family’, ‘we are in the same boat’. . A pineapple is something that is closed, that when it opens up to give its fruit, it definitely falls from the pine and is good for...

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Cambio, Liderazgo, Leadership: la catálisis, Aristóteles y la catarsis

Desde hace unos días, le debo a Ergow una respuesta a su comentario sobre este post He pensado mucho acerca de cómo contestar a una inquietud tan particular: ¿cómo debe ser el Liderazgo en una Organización Neuronal? La primera respuesta que me surgió fue: el líder es la energía que activa la respuesta neuronal. Pero supongo que es una respuesta que así, en una frase, se queda corta. Así que como un Blog es un espacio para hablar y conversar, he pensado que mejor podemos ir paso a paso, desgranando lo que siento cuando hablo de...

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Neuronas, Redes, Estructuras y Física Cuántica (4)

Hace poco leí a un científico que decía algo así como: “si crees que has entendido exactamente lo que es la Física Cuántica, es que no has entendido absolutamente nada de lo que es la Física Cuántica”. Nosotros llevamos, juntos, varias semanas tratando de imaginar Organizaciones que puedan ser más eficaces para las empresas que las que conocemos hasta ahora. Ya sabéis mi discrepancia con las Organizaciones matriciales, y mi apuesta por lo que yo llamo las Organizaciones Neuronales. También hemos hablado de...

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Neuronas, redes y estructuras (3)

Este es un post raro, lo aviso de antemano. La Dra. Jill Bolte Taylor es una neuroanatomista estadounidense especializada en el estudio post mortem del cerebro. También es la Portavoz Nacional en Estados Unidos del Centro de suministros de tejidos cerebrales de Harvard. La Dra. Bolte sufrió un derrame cerebral en el hemisferio izquierdo de su cerebro en diciembre de 1996, experiencia de la cual tardó 8 años en recuperarse. En febrero de 2008 ofreció la siguiente conferencia en el congreso TED, narrando su experiencia y los descubrimientos...

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Empresa, estructuras y caleidoscopios (1)

Hello everyone! After 10 days of not posting I return to my tasks on this Blog, as well as to my professional activities. And there are some things that I would like to share. Before anything, say thank you to the hundreds (yes, there were hundreds!) of visitors to my last post where I left a couple of chapters from my book. Thank you for the interest and the comments Another curious thing was to see how during these vacation days this blog has acquired new readers, new subscribers, therefore, new eyes-ears with whom to communicate During...

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