NewsLeader in
August brings you two significant issues: a) innovation, in or outside the
corporation? b) Self-esteem and development
Technological innovation goes hand in
hand with creativity, but how do you
harness innovation in corporations and how to you retain the creativity within
them? It may seem a far-fetched concern for the Latin American region; but it is
not. Making the best use of the region's more scarce and expensive technological talent is paramount to
stepping-up the people’s productivity.
The
gist of the argument is this: radical innovation may best be left to small,
talented and creative organizations; for large corporations have other talents
which are useful for what the small organizations cannot do well. Brazil’s
Votorantin may be doing that already. Successful branding experiences are
recommending the same. Read more in the Management Insights of
NewsLeader, a
discussion based on the work of business strategists and marketing
people.
Self-esteem and development 
"Peruvians can" read the banner high in the Lima football stadium during
the final for the America's Cup. Who had said
"Peruvians could not" What was the purpose of that banner during a final match
between Argentina and Brazil? That is the
issue.
Throughout Latin America self esteem runs at a low. Two decades of
economic stagnation and the high inflation levels that followed a decade of
military rule have left a sense of despair. Yet I argue that this sense of
low-self esteem has deep historical roots that have found their way into the
style of economic development and that have reinforced themselves in the
region's institutions and the people's social
behaviour.
Others claim that the current low-ebb of self-esteem is only transient and show,
sustaining their argument, high points of achievement in yesteryears, normally
up to the fifties, a time of high commodity prices. If these arguments were
right, Latin Americans may be prompted to wait out this phase of
stagnation.
Yet if
I were right, these societies need salient gestures of change. Banners such as
the ones seen in the Lima stadium do help, but it is not enough. Placing a few
white-collar crooks in jail- throughout Latin America - should help more to
start putting the countries back on track; for an enhanced appreciation for the
rule of law would reward honest work, unleashing creativity and stamping out
deleterious rent-seeking behaviour. Read more in the Feature article below, in
some Spanish.
Henri
Cartier-Bresson passed away this month and in the last few weeks you surely you
were exposed to much of his great photographic art. NewsLeader chose to
celebrate Cartier-Breson's life by bringing to the fore the work of another of
his contemporaries, the also great Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
You will find five more pictures of Alvarez Bravo at Newsleader. The
illustration in this message is MAB's
"Frida Kahlo con
bolle"
undated.
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