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| Asunto: | [newsleader] NewsLeader: issue # 2; September, 2003 | | Fecha: | Lunes, 13 de Octubre, 2003 20:12:40 (-0300) | | Autor: | Alfredo Behrens <abehrens @.........br>
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September,
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NewsLeader |
Issue
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Alfredo Behrens
Editor
This is a
space for quick conversations on management and society. Our
interests gravitate around issues of leadership, management of
workteams, technology, creativity, emotional intelligence and most
issues which should be shared to shape a better world.
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This second issue brings your a Feature
Article on why companies are becoming less pyramidal and are
requiring to know more about people in order to bring about
the efficacy of workteams. In Management Insights you will
read a call for attention to Brazilian human resources
practices in order to retain their talent because executives
allegiance to their current employers will become more
volatile if the economy enters an upswing during 2004. In Food
for the Mind you will see an example of creative energy where
most would only see an office device. Last but certainly not
least, Professor Theodore Zeldin contributes, as Guest Author,
specially for Newsleader, with an introduction to his views on
conversation as a tool to enhance the productivity of
workteams. Professor Zeldin is a former Dean of St. Anthony's
College, Oxford, is an Associate Fellow of Oxford's Business
School: Templeton College; and an Honorary Professor of the
French Haute École de Commerce. Professor Zeldin leads the Oxford Muse.
Incidentaly, there is no earlier issue of
NewsLeader. This one is nubered as the second one
following the advice of the late and wonderful Brazilian
humorist, Henfil, who claimed that no good Brazilian
periodical survives its first edition.
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The genesis
of customer responsive work teams
(excerpt)
Alfredo Behrens
Fecap
abehrens@fecap.br
Professor Zeldin’s webcast through Tate Gallery has been one
of the most inspiring lectures I have attended in many years. It came at a time I
am organizing a roundtable to discuss what should be taught at MBA
courses. The pressure for
reflection comes from a dissonance between the talents executive search
consultants look for in candidates and what is taught at MBAs. The latter
tend to have little time to develop talents such as empathy, building work
teams – talents sought for by search consultants, and their clients.
Professor Zeldin’s talk puts teaching needs into another
perspective: as services overcame manufacturing, the XXIst century will
see more demand for talents which historically came more readily to women
than men, like relationship and network building.
The new customer-oriented workplace will become still more
horizontal, and lines of command more diffuse. Intra-company negotiation
will be even more necessary than today. Women are more likely to provide
the talents in higher demand and corporate structure, which will be still
less pyramidal, will favour leadership styles more akin to those of women,
or of men with what today are considered more women-like talents.
But Professor
Zeldin’s teaching is not only about corporate structure and purpose; it is
also about providing a workplace that will reveal the uniqueness of the
individual. This is a call to decommoditize labour, in order to stimulate discovery and
unleash the person’s creativity, quenching the thirst for leisure away
from work. Creativity would stem from allowing more emphasis to build
tasks around people’s talents, rather than attempting to sieve people
through job descriptions. Productivity would thrive on synergy, rather
than process control. Synergy implies in bringing together people that may
grow more rapidly together than they would on their own.
Still, how to accomplish this? Knowing more about people would pave the
way. Professor Zeldin suggests this new or additional knowledge may come
through greater transparency. The past-oriented CV should give place to
fuller portraits that will allow others to know more about who we would
like to turn into and work with.
Skills, though necessary, would no longer be King. The
educational system will continue to certify skills, but once acquired and
maintained, people would be allowed to become more than their skills would
reveal: an economist may make a better strategist. All at the workplace
will begin to look more like what executive search consultants are already
trying to look for: executives who know how to catalyze effective work
teams.
(End of excerpt, ask for the full article if your
wish. )
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As soon
as the Brazilian economy picks-up, companies will most likely scramble for
talent, after sheding it for years.
The recruiting staff, hiring laterally and
not only at the entry level, will not find enough talent as readily as
they wish; they will see wages rise, and a misperception may
arise.
Handicapped by years of cut-backs, the
recruiting staff will perceive a talented labour shortage; instead of their
companies' own strategic shortcommings.
Better retention and performance evaluation
techniques should help limiting the need for hiring.
Is your company's labour management ready
for an upswing? After many years of contraction it would be suprising if
it were! Ask for help while you
can.
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TIP------------------*
Better
matching of people and jobs
helps
reduce
turnover,
almost as much as pay
does.
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Learn more asking from NewsLeader or read further
into Peter Capelli's USA-focused "Will there be a labor shortage" in the
August issue of Organizational Dynamics. Peter Capelli is Professor of
Management at Wharton and is Director of Wharton's Center for Human
Resources.
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Scanners were developed as reading machines for the blind. They were
later taken over by business and now Katinka Matson uses them to create
exquisitely sensual images of flowers.
Katinka's work provides us with beauty and with an insight
into the intersection of technology and art. Besides, she also provokes us
to find creative opportunities in the apparently dull office equipment
which surrounds us.
Visit the Five Lilies section in
her site: www.KatinkaMatson.com
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Executivos sob Encomenda, Formando para o Mercado
Mesa redonda
Participam da
mesa redonda, moderada por Alfredo Behrens; Ana Paula Chagas da
Heidrick&Struggles; Robert Wong, da Korn/Ferry; Angelo Meniconi da
DBM, José Luiz Weiss da Coca~Cola Femsa e a Professora Leda Machado, da
FAAP.
A mesa redonda terá lugar no 30 de setembro, às 19 horas na
Avda. Liberdade 532, próximo à estação do Metrô. Entrada franca. reserve
seu lugar pelo e-mail visoes@fecap.br.
A mesa é organizada pela Fecap para discutir formas de
integrar o ensino à demanda pelos talentos procurados pelos selecionadores
e recrutadores de executivos.
Empatia, capacidade de montar e gerir
equipes são alguns dos talentos procurados que não vem sendo ensinados.
Podem ser ensinados? Assista à mesa redonda.
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Limiting your contribution to under 50 words may lead to faster
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The New Conversation
by Prof. Theodore Zeldin
The world has changed, throughout
history, not just when a new technology is invented, or new laws are
passed, but when people discover a new way of talking, so that they treat
one another in a manner that reflects their deepest aspirations for the
future. Now, in the 21st century, there are men and women
who are beginning to adopt a New Conversation.
This is the method that enables every individual to feel
understood, respected and appreciated, personally, professionally and
interculturally. It is the instrument that allows business to use all the
talents of those with whom it works, more creatively. It is indispensable
for organisations wishing to establish relationships with their clients or
customers that are based on reciprocal loyalty.
The
New
Conversation is an answer to what the great Machado de Assis denounced,
the feeling of being shipwrecked, irremedially alone.
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Provocative insights under 100 words long will
receive our attention more rapidly. Larger pieces may be abridged without
consultation with the author. Guest authors may wish to submit
contributions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian. With
each submission please include a statement indicating the work submited is
your own. Please also submit your affiliations, email address and CV or
Oxford Muse like portrait Oxford
Muse . Authors will
only be notified when their contributions are selected for
publication.
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template design. You are encouraged to make use of the views and
information provided herein, as long as you appropriately give credit to
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Phone +55 11
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