Comunication: (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...
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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,...
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