The 12 Dilemmas of ChangeSince the academic year 2010-2011, I have been participating in the different formats of the EMBA programme at ESADE. We are a pool of professors running the Experiential Learning Programme (ELP). It is a week of many activities, from culture and organisational dynamics to change dynamics and personal development.During this period, […]
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The new organisation is distributedIn today’s complex and interdependent environment, where the individual is overwhelmed or needs others to help achieve their goals, it is the team that takes the baton. In this context, a new management approach is necessary, allowing the organisation to confront potential risks and take advantage of potential opportunities and synergies. Organisations
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Emotional commitment at Café Rouge Oxford A few months ago, the meaning of emotional commitment was clear to me at the Café Rouge restaurant in Oxford, where I had one of the most interesting service experiences I have ever had. I was having dinner with my wife. It was not the first time we’d visited
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The six-step model for growing trust provides an action guide to developing teams. And building trust with my team is the keystone to success.
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This article argues how simulations can facilitate understanding a complex environment and visualise solutions.
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A game or a simulation can significantly help us communicate complex concepts or abstract realities taking advantage of experiential learning. Gamification is also a great ally when involving the individual, motivating them, or facilitating mental model change.
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Individuals are often unaware that there are problems that can only be solved by altering the mental model behind them. A business simulation game allows discovering this miss-match resulting in a more robust, double-loop learning process.
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There is no closed body of theory around the concept of distributed leadership. Different authors propose definitions without still having reached an agreement on the matter. Among them, perhaps the two most significant are Spillane and Gronn. Both raised the concept from their research and publications at the start of this decade. Both approaches have their
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How to make better decisions.The integration of Systems Thinking is one of the most important experiences I have had from an intellectual point of view. Yet, it is simultaneously a knowledge with a modest claim to immediate application. Systems analysis deals with complexity, circular relationships and interrelated systems. It is, therefore, in the overall vision
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How to develop an agile team An agile organisation will try to incorporate the agile methodology into its culture by forming agile teams and using a specific technology. It is easy to understand that the key to success lies in the team and its capacity for self-coordination. An agile team collectively assumes full responsibility for
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What is executive coaching?There is no universally accepted definition of coaching. Virtually all coaching schools and researchers have their own or differ slightly from each other.The most widespread coaching organization, the USA-based International Coach Federation (ICF), with 30,000 members and a presence in almost 140 countries, defines coaching as partnering with clients in a creative
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Emotional IntelligenceHoward Gardner published in 1983 Frames of Mind, establishing its theory of multiple intelligences for the first time. In a later work, he summarizes them in the following way (Gardner, 1993): Linguistic Intelligence, Logical-mathematical Intelligence, Spatial Intelligence, Musical Intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence, Interpersonal Intelligence and Intrapersonal Intelligence. Of the seven, we are concerned about the last
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