How can culture ruin a company?

como la cultura puede arruinar una empresa

How can culture ruin a company? Do you know how culture can ruin a company? Every organisation has its own culture which, if not managed properly, can end up ruining it. How do you get to this point and how can you avoid it? In this article we explain what corporate culture is and what […]

Resistance to organizational change, how to manage it?

resistencia al cambio

Resistance to organizational change, how to manage it? One of the main difficulties faced by organizations is undoubtedly resistance to change. This is a much more frequent situation than we think, in fact, there are very few companies where change does not generate resistance. How can we combat this resistance to change within an organization? […]

Culture of effectiveness in organizations

productividad

Culture of effectiveness in organizations Recently, reflecting on this with a steering committee, one of the managers reminded us of the well-known phrase “we are doing things correctly, but are we doing the right things?” The conversation recalled a reflection by Peter Drucker: “there is nothing more useless than doing very efficiently that which should […]

Innovation, culture and leadership: how are they related?

In the business world, innovation, culture and leadership are three concepts that we all talk about, but based on our experience, we rarely agree on what each of them means, even within an organization. In this article we clarify these terms and their importance within an organization and explain how they relate to each other.  […]

Critical thinking, the great forgotten of management committees

We share an excerpt from an article written with David Cerdá for Harvard Deusto. Critical thinking is taken for granted by decision-makers, but the truth is that companies lose a lot of money and opportunities by not exploiting it properly and not systematizing it in leadership, culture and processes. What really is critical thinking, how […]

What is innovation culture?

cultura de la innovación

What is innovation culture? The word innovation, even associated with culture, is a concept that is in vogue in all business sectors, both in the public and private sectors. But what is innovation culture, what is the difference between culture and innovation, and why is it so important to implement innovative cultures in companies? In […]

Transformation without predictive analytics

A few months before he passed away, Clayton Christensen said at an interview in November 2019, that we are trained to select data, analyse it and make decisions; however, data  belongs to the past. We have no data of the future at all. Some decades ago, when the velocity of transformation of the environment was […]

Fishing in troubled waters

The culture affects the entire organization, even in some divisions or departments alternative subcultures are created; finding them and knowing how to transform them increases the value of our organizations. 

What do innovation, M&A, ERP implementation and total quality have in common?

At first sight it could look like such four concepts do not have very much to do with one another. Yet, each of these have a profound impact on the organization culture. You may recall  Peter Drucker’s famous statement: «Culture eats any change for breakfast».   As we all know,  the cultural resistance to change is […]

What this teleworking thing is?

Teletrabajar es mucho más que tener ordenador y wifi. Implica disponer del software eficiente en el proceso de datos y plataformas estables de conexión.

Boredom awakens creativity

Boredom awakens creativity For the vast majority of us, the usual way for a long time was that the physical working spaces were different from those for our personal life. The lockdown to which we have been submitted has arisen some confusion within us. We are no longer able of differentiating what belongs to one […]

Today is April 28, 2021

In times of uncertainty and ambiguity, velocity is not good; however, agility and adaptability are indispensable.