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 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: ¿dónde ha de situarse el CEO? (5)
In the future. Searching how it will be, wondering what shape it will have, which will be the playing ground. Preparing the different roads as alternative routes to get to a horizon which after five years, at least, will continue to be sustainable and consistent with the Vision that exists today. And if necessary, preparing the alternative messages to start adapting the Vision to new markets, new competitors, new ways of doing business, new ways of trading. Preparing the different head models which have to get to that future (including the...
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 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: ¿dónde ha de situarse el CEO? (4)
He should place himself far away from his original occupation. Whichever that may be. Far away from Sales if he comes from the commercial area, far away from Product Development if he comes from the Engineering area; and definitely far away from that which keeps him away from the ‘family picture’ Since very many years I have suffered from the harassment by those people who ask me what my profession is and then they get wide-eyed when I tell them that “I direct companies”. And the questions start: “but, what companies? what do you...
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 moreEstrategia 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...
read moreEstrategia y Cambio: ¿dónde ha de situarse el CEO? (2)
It was no accident that I chose the image of the god Janus in the first post of this seriesto illustrate the post. I am convinced that that should be the CEO’s attitude (read: Managing Director, Manager, General Manager, etc.) This should be the position: looking at both the shareholders and the company at the same time. By choosing this image I noticed that the god Janus has that image because he marks the beginning and the end of things, all at the same time. That is probably why the Portuguese name for the month of January is -Janeiro-,...
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: ¿dónde ha de situarse el CEO? (1)
Our Spanish Transition Manager executed her Mission in a very unconventional way, together with the people, starting at the base and without losing sight of the company’s interests. She selected those persons who would continue working in the team after the restructuring, based on their abilities and their Emotional Coefficient (EQ) This is what the CEO of the Plastiflex Group said to Esensys,Esensys magazine during an interview, referring to the author of this writing. (you can see the complete note here) What caught my attention in de...
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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