I often hear well intentioned leaders blaming their circumstances (often called Executive Board) for the impossibility to run the business as smartly as they think it could and should be. Here is a story I came across during the month of August when working in SĂŁo-Paulo. I share it as I find it remarkable, as much from the SBU’s leadership…
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“Distance to Power cripples the Brazilian economy: Does this apply to our organizations?”
Sunday September 19th, 2010 4 commentsI am always upset when people automatically assume that I go on holiday when I say that I head to Brazil, and that they add with the usual idiotic blink of the eye: “Beach, samba and palm trees”. In my modest experience, Brazilians work harder and longer hours than any European or American but the efficiency of the system is…
“We think of our future as anticipated memories” or when our emotional memory takes over from our factual memory…
Sunday September 12th, 2010 3 commentsFinally back to our blog… Thank you for your patience and numerous requests (sometimes orders) to move on. So here we go again! An interesting event took place during my family’s trip to Brazil, hosted by the Portuguese airlines TAP. On the way to, our collective memory has been firmly anchored around the very poor conditions of the aircraft (run…