Conquering your agenda
At this point in the year, I can say that the most common and recurring problem I am finding in each and every organisation I interact with is one and only one: people have totally and utterly lost control of their own agendas. I remember 5 years ago, just when I was
La Cosa Nostra
Just when I thought I had seen it all in the world of organisations, a couple of weeks ago I was told about the grotesque case of a company that has forbidden people who are resigning to send a farewell email when they leave. What is so frightening about farewell emails
Starting the house from the roof
This summer I have been working on a fascinating organizational architecture case where a company, assessed by a group of “traditional” consultants, was trying to solve an operational problem by redesigning its organizational chart.
Create to thrive
It is incredible that at this point there are still profiles supposedly experts in creativity and innovation that insist on wrapping both concepts in an air of mysticism and mystery, as if they were unattainable skills or only suitable for a select few who master certain
Sexy boards vs Boring boards
This week I had a session with a board that made me reflect on the interactions I have been having with different boards of directors over these years as an entrepreneur. In a 100% empirical way, I have created my own non-academic nomenclature to classify
Passion vs Transaction
At home we are the proud owners of a 17 year old vehicle of which I will not say the brand. It is a fairly timeless model and even if no one throws its real age at it, it had to have a few aches and pains. This week it started to give some strange […]
Recommendation of the month
Pasión por innovar. F. Ponti & X. Ferràs. This book was written in 2006 and I did read it on 2008. Back to that time, companies did not have transformation offices, nobody bought “cultural change” projects and the words “innovation”, “disruption” or “transformation”
Escapologists
Once upon a time, there was a stuck department, and nobody knew how to solve it. The person in charge, someone who has been trusted for years, introduced their managers to different ideas to improve the situation, moaned about his/her struggles
Words and actions
These days I often remember something my granny used to say: “All that glitters is not gold”. I think about that every time I read or listen the speeches some CEOs are currently offering. They talk plenty about technology, strategy and future and hardly ever about people,
7 minutes with Lucas Morera
I met Lucas 4 years ago, right when he was just stepping into his position as Retail, People & Culture Manager at Brownie, the brand founded by his parents. Thanks to Lucas I discovered my now admired Zygmunt Bauman and I had the chance to know
