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I was waiting in the lobby on the fifth floor of a building in Buenos Aires. I was waiting for a long-standing colleague to receive me, he had recently been appointed director of Human Resources for a company whose industry I prefer not to reveal. I started scanning the brochures available on the coffee table; […]
One of the greatest challenges for companies is building a heterogeneous human group. As we said a few days ago, creativity is born from dissent, and we need that diversity of ideas to grow. We require people who harmoniously relate to each other or even in dissent, but… how is this harmony achieved? What happens when dissent […]
Rodolfo owns a chemical-producing company, an SME like so many others. Some time ago, during a meeting where we discussed the team’s performance, he told me: “I have a hard time getting Juan to meet the sales deadlines (his Sales Manager).” I asked him if he had been able to arrange a meeting to talk this […]
LEGACY: How do you want to be remembered? I was recently at a Human Resources congress where the panelists had 18 minutes to talk about a topic related to people management inside the companies they worked. The speakers sought to mobilize and inspire the audience by sharing their stories and those of their work teams. All talks […]
Paying a bonus in an SME? Are you crazy? A few months ago, we received an inquiry from a client. Jorge is the owner of a small manufacturing company in Chile. He was in a bad mood when calling the consultant and he told us that his Production Manager cannot follow his directives, much less work independently. […]
If we often classify meetings as boring and useless, to the point of hating them, why can’t we stop having meetings? Paul Graham, an investor and essayist with vast experience in the computer industry, concluded that meetings have different costs for the two groups he distinguishes: those who thrive in meetings, the “managers,” and those […]
It’s Wednesday. I am meeting with the two owners of a company, an SME. I truly admire them because they forged their company with passion, sweat and desire, against all odds. An inspiring story that should be told with epic music. They grew up and want to “professionalize.” There we are, sitting and talking about […]
You look like a trade unionist”! The title of this note summarizes quite well, in my opinion, a frequent experience in my interaction with businessmen and executives, and reflects a peculiar reality derived from the shift from the strategic view of leaders to the tactics of middle management. In my last post, I mentioned Google’s […]
In the corporate environment, prosperity is almost unthinkingly associated with “hard” variables: market share, sales, or profit. “Thrive” is the name of one of our clients ‘ wellness program. Thrive and wellness? In this case the client decided to walk the path considering people. How? Doing some specific activities with the employees. The purpose of these is to account for […]
I live in an apartment and I really miss going for a run on my 8km (Monday) and 6km (Wednesday) circuits. I used to do it frequently, I had my Alondra (person who wakes up in the morning) routines so well planned so that I could feel physically prepared inside a soccer field. These training sessions were […]