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: ¿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 moreEstrategia 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...
read moreManagement in Times of Cholera
The new Dictionary of Management in Times of Cholera must relentlessly include the following terms: PASSION: for the task we are facing, for our project, for our long-term Vision SEDUCTION:: of our people, our listeners and our attitude LOYALTY:to our convictions, our people, our long-term objectives ...
read moreGestión de Cambio: reconstruír la Narrativa
Los años me han convencido de que una Empresa es un organismo vivo en sí misma, independientemente de su entidad jurídica, financiera o de mercado. La Empresa tiene un sentido propio, y por tanto, cuando tenemos que entenderla, hace falta respetar esa entidad. Cuando llega la hora de Gestionar un Cambio, no podemos hacerlo sin asumir la historia propia de la Empresa, como algo diferente y superior, a la historia de cada una de las personas que la conforman. Tal vez sea una mirada tocada de un deje psicoanalítico, o tenga una pátina muy...
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