Change Management
Often I have been asked what is, in my understanding the ideal cycle to implement a Change in the Company. And my answer can somehow be abbreviated to this, that I want to share with you all today. First is to avoid that anyone thinks this way: “I decided to face reality,so as soon as it’s getting nicer, please let me know” From there on, the Cycle of Change is: To listen To the needs of the shareholders To the management team To each employee as an individual being Understand The culture and the needs of the company The...
read moreStrategy 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 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: Empowerment and trust
We have talked a lot about Empowerment. We have said that directing people is making them grow, is guiding them to be better, broader, deeper, stronger, more profound,… Because as our people are, is how our company will ultimately be. Lately I have been thinking a lot about this. About the way empowerment is used, about what this ‘granting power’ really implies. And I have certainly arrived at the conclusion that Empowerment can only start with trust; by granting our trust to those who work with us, for us, in our area of...
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 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 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...
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