My partners and I are about to embark on a journey, with several organizations in the world, which have decided to seriously engage their people in their strategy implementation and create (more) “Intelligent Organizations”. I was looking for leaders having taken...
Wikipedia defines Synchronicity as “the experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated, occurring together in a meaningful manner”. It was the famous psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung who coined this term in the 1920’s. Two apparently unrelated events took...
On an intercontinental flight, a senior Citibanker proved me once, that people don’t listen to what we say but to what we do!: “Touch your skull! He said and so did I. Touch your forehead! And so I did, wondering what he was trying to get at… Touch your nose! And did,...
Following the great interest (thank you for all your mails and please feel free to share your thoughts directly on the blog) of last week’s post, I thought it would be good to complete the scene on how to avoid the “Going Limbic” syndrome. Years ago, my partners and I...
It is probably difficult to imagine a more challenging place to be for a CEO than run a Telecom company while having a hedge fun as shareholders (I guess we all heard the semi-fictional joke that during Board meetings, hedge funds representatives avoid shaking hands...
Following last week’s blog, I received several mails challenging us to provide examples of “Engaging Leaders” in action, suggesting that there were areas such as banking, where it is impossible for such leaders to act. I could have replied that Fabio Barbosa, the...
