Sergio Chaia is the C.E.O. of Nextel in Brazil which he has profoundly transformed during his tenure. During a lunch in São-Paulo, four months ago, he was challenging me: “We all need to define our Essence! By so doing, we become unique and clearly positioned both in...
“Scanning the periphery”[1] is the advice given by G. Day and P. Schoemaker in a typical HBR article (starting well by providing an inspiring insight then… crashing in flames when suggesting traditional old ways of thinking and 21 steps recipes). Scanning the...
Finally 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...
“This was the best experience of my professional career: the program you designed kept external interventions to the minimum and allowed us to share our own experiences, learn together and from each other. We now feel that our future does not depend from consultants...
“Para descer, todo Santo ajuda” (to go down all the Saints are helpful) say the pragmatic people of the Brazilian state of Bahia (where my wonderful wife comes from). A recent event brought this old saying back to the surface: the Fundação Dom Cabral (www.fdc.org.br)...
I love this quote from Richard Pascale and am sometimes sadly reminded of it when my partners and I or even a respected client are unable to break the boundaries from our self-created, self-limiting “mental prisons”. It is so exasperating when we find ourselves...
