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: ¿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 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...
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