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Je me souviens toujours des mots de Platon selon lequel au pouvoir il faut des gens qui ne veulent pas gouverner. C’est exactement le cas de Havel. Il a toujours, tout au long de sa présidence, beaucoup réfléchi sur lui-même, il a fait beaucoup de choses pour se
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Con ocasión de una conversación sobre el futuro, Pep Guardiola y Fernando Trueba acaban hablando de dirección: imaginar futuros, jugar, sacar lo mejor de su gente, etc. [youtube=http://youtu.be/OkbhqEjNKiY]
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A Forbes piece on Roger Martin's book Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. I have not read the book yet. But I definitely will. The expectations market is the world in which shares in companies are traded between investors—in other
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Public support should be shifted from protecting large established corporations to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises. And startups should be discouraged from rushing into the embrace of the stock market’s short-sighted analysts and many an established corporation should be encouraged to escape that embrace. At the same
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via The Management Myth As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and cryptic anecdotes, is rarely if ever held accountable, and produces an inordinate number of catastrophically bad writers. It was all too familiar. There are, however,
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So I’ve said to them that the analogy that best suits us is, “We’re a team,” and in a team, everybody’s got a role to play. And the team wins when everybody plays their roles to their best ability. The other thing that’s different in a
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Every year Britain's Chartered Management Institute awards a Management Book of the Year and this year's choice is Managing by McGill University's Henry Mintzberg. Following the announcement Mintzberg said “I would be honoured by this lovely prize in any event. But it has special
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On a l'impression en France qu'en lisant un bouquin de Tolstoï ou Dickens, on lit Tolstoï ou Dickens : mais c'est stupide ! Pour lire Dickens il faut lire l'anglais ! Si vous écoutez une œuvre musicale ou si vous allez au théâtre voir Hamlet,
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Wisdom (and book promotion) from Mintzberg via WSJ: One step removed, [managers] manage people. Managers deal with people who take the action. And two steps removed from that, managers manage information to drive people to take action—through budgets and objectives and delegating tasks and designing organization structure and all
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Given that neat formulation, there are two ways to attack the problem: boost our reality or lower our expectations. Most of us choose the former. We’d rather stew in our misery than trim our expectations. Lowering our sights smacks us as a cop out, un-American. Better a nation
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Besides coach, he’s also a de facto dad. A builder of character. A shoulder on which to cry. And, when necessary, a kick in the pants. There is what you do in the position. And there is who you choose to be in the position. via Bloomberg.