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 moreEn éste tiempo… ¿qué hemos aprendido?
http://youtu.be/xn2QBXRMAFs There were many ways to post again, after all this time. I thought that this was the most appropriate PS:if you want to do something, go HERE http://www.othercrisis.org/sites/default/files/video_en.flv
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 moreEstrategia y Cambio: ¿M&M o Lacasitos?
>Perdón, evidentemente ha sido un lapsus…. La pregunta era: ¿M&A o La Casa de Todos? Veréis, intenteré a partir de hoy, volver a contar con más asiduidad lo que me pasa por la cabeza (que es donde se generan también la emociones, claro), porque la semana pasada terminamos con éxito un proceso de M&A (compra-venta de empresas), que me obligó no sólo a una dedicación importante, sino también a un silencio que no comprometiera mi obligación de confidencialidad. Y mi primer comentario es éste: ¿cómo se puede dar un...
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 moreEstrategia y Cambio: Valor y Precio
It’s that simple … His name is Joshua Bell and he is one of the most renowned violinists today. In the first video, played at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, playing Beethoven: Violin Concerto-3.Rondo. Allegro, accompanied by chamber orchestra. From 8 minutes, you can hear almost a minute of applause. In the second video, the same Joshua Bell plays in a subway station at Washington. The instrument, neither more nor less than a Stradivarius of 1713, for which he paid more than $ 3 million. The repertoire of the best classical pieces...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: ellos, nosotros, BRIC & PIGS
PS: éste post DEBE completarse, leyendo comentario de Andreu Guimerá. GRACIAS, ANDREU, POR UN COMENTARIO QUE ES MÁS QUE UN...
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 moreEstrategia y Cambio: una revolución, de las de verdad
When revolutions are revolutionary watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek (a different version for English readres )
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: cuando la naturaleza nos contesta
It has shown us how small we are, has won the first round of combat vs GLOBALIZATORS. NATURE, has left many on the ground and at home, and many others, y “Globalized lost in the Universe”, or “en tierra extraña”, as said Concha Piquer. So, that courtesy to its majestic appearance in our lives, we learn, at least his name.(In case he returns, that we greet him, in a peaceful communication exercise with the forces of nature ) How to pronounce the name of Eyjafjallajökull...
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