Wow… what a scenario to come back to after vacation, I haven’t slept well in days, and I am beginning to have nightmares in pesetas instead of dreams in euros, really frightening, what times those were and what a scenario we have before us today: A stock market that inspires fear, where large and small [...]
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10 pieces of advice for the manager 2012
1. WHY NOT? Adopt an attitude that does not question your possibilities nor those of your company. The ideas that you have can be carried out, believe it. Seek people who have this attitude in your organization. Create a company with a “WHY NOT?” ATTITUDE. 2. SERVICE AND MORE SERVICE. Add layers of service to [...]
18 July, 2011 – 6:21 PM
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Three NO’s: There is no understanding, there is no confidence, and no money.
I remember that in the IESE Business School back in the 90’s they explained to me the virtues of financial leveraging as a model for growth. The exploitation of this model is what has brought us to the point that in Spain in 2010 only 1 of 2 small and medium-sized businesses obtained the credit that [...]
10 June, 2011 – 9:09 AM
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TOO BIG TO FAIL
The first time that I heard this expression was on the lips of Mario Conde at a conference, and I imagine that he knows a lot about this. This expression is used to define the relationships and mechanisms that some institutions, basically financial institutions, have with the economy, so that actions taken against them produce [...]
9 June, 2011 – 1:33 PM
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I’m over 50…what about it?
They told me in the course of a personnel selection process: “Felipe, the candidate is more than fifty years old, and at this age managers are generally looking for someplace to retire.” WELL I DON’T AGREE. What determines a person’s capacity for a job is attitude and motivation: people who were tired already when they [...]
25 May, 2011 – 9:11 AM
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AM I WELL PAID? ……….. 1,000,000 Euros?
This is the question that everybody asks themselves. Reuters have just told me the market salary for a job that will cost you your life: 3,500 Euros per day, that is to say about 1,000,000 Euros per annum, if you survive that year. They do not explain if it is net or gross and if [...]
16 April, 2011 – 10:37 AM
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Inside Job, Undercover Boss, The apprentice…How many businesses for Managers!
Since the beginning of this crisis, both cinema and television have taken on the world of business as their inspiration source –at the end of the day, we spend more than 60% of our conscious time at work. The “management” and the “business” issue are stepping hard into TV and cinema screens –all with abide [...]
29 March, 2011 – 7:12 PM
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I’ll take a “pound of desire”, please.
We managers usually complain about our sector, moaning about how competitive it is, how hard and how different it is from all others and grumble about it because it is less profitable than every other sector. I also hear managers complaining about their companies, claiming they are hard to manage, so complicated and different from [...]
22 March, 2011 – 1:03 PM
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TALENT = finders, keepers.
Talent is something scarce and those who have it must use it, while for entrepreneurs, whether you have it or not, you must look for it. This simple sentence describes what is going on at the headquarters of many Human Resources Departments in many multinationals around the world. The aforementioned statement, together with a mix [...]
28 February, 2011 – 7:19 PM
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Rare earth elements, Unobtainium and Managers
The dependence that our economy is getting from some raw materials and energy sources is such that this fact actually makes me state that our economic model is just not sustainable. The dream of any researcher is finding a better source of energy, an unlimited one, clean and cheap. It may also be finding cheap [...]
16 February, 2011 – 11:37 AM
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