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Many of us have already faced this kind o situation: We work for a manager that thinks has a good approach and “grip” of his team, but among us, the team, contempt is what dominates. Yes, contempt. Some of you will say that the feeling is not exactly this but a related one. The fact is that it is not a “good” feeling.

The question: Why?

There can be many reasons, some related to persona l characteristics and others related to corporate politics, family business and etc. Unfortunately, many corporations, independently of their sizes, struggles to recognize this problem and, therefore, have not idea at all on how to act when faced with those situations.

What can be impressive is the amount of managers that take way too long time to recognize they are one of those IDREAM (“BELIEVE TO BE”) Leader. IDREAM  leaders come into the office  as they owned it, talk to their team as close friends and call for action and goals believing to be a leader , a reference to them all. On contrary, IDREAM leaders are simply seen by their team as someone to repot to, a daily routine and an obligation.

Mais uma dica à lista de “newbies”  tecnológicas para aqueles que interagem com redes sociais freqüentemente.  Como sabemos existem diversas ferramentas que oferecem  uma melhor interação e gestão de múltiplas redes sociais, permitindo assim facilitar a vida de empresas e pessoas na hora de postarinformações em múltiplas contas, gerenciar resultados e visualizar informações.

Durante todo dia tenho a oportunidade de conversar com diferentes tipos de pessoas( naturalidades, culturas, nacionalidades)  em diversas partes do globo.  Sempre que tenho a oportunidade questiono, à  todos  aqueles que possuem cargo gerencial ou que lideram algum tipo de equipe , quanto ao conhecimento que possuem sobre a situação emocional, motivacional  e visionária de seus funcionários e times.

It has been a while since I have posted a TECH update  and I decided to share this new SITE FEATURE  UPDATE we have released at POSTED  once it indeed has made a difference for us. I confess that , though we do have my backoffice operations team running and supporting the site, I try to make sure I have my fingers in all over it  ensuring it emanates  exactly the feeling I wish our readers  would have when going through our info. As part of this process I have been searching for the best SHARE feature ( that ones enable users to share the content they have read to others via social media and other gateways), ensuring it is easy of use  as well as it covers all major communication path, thereby  making easy for users to share and send our posts.

It’s been as while since I wanted to write this post especially considering the latest events I’ve been through.   While we are all sometimes caught up in our daily life’s and routines, it is common for us to constantly ignore many signs and opportunities that are presented to us in order for us to fully understand, at least once in a while, how life can be fortunate, how we still can find gladly good people and, most importantly, how little changes in our perspectives could support us becoming better human beings, professionals and leaders.

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Muitas vezes no mundo corporativo somos colocados em situações inesperadas que demandam reações rápidas, diretivas e , principalmente, inteligentemente emocionais.  O segredo: Como direcionar estas emoções, naquele instante, de forma a suportar seus próximos passos apropriadamente.

Recentemente me encontrei exatamente em uma daquelas situações que podem constranger muitos de nós, e que pessoalmente visualizo como “janelas de oportunidade”.

Em uma reunião de revisão de estratéca e negócios, com uma sala de conferência cheia de altos executivos, fui convidado a apresentar minhas opiniões e visões sobre futuro de uma empresa.  O perfil das pessoas atendendo a reunião era diversificado tanto quanto nacionalidade quanto formação, e a reunião realizava-se na sede da empresa na Europa. Meu papel era de certa forma simples: conhecendo o foco que a empresa estava atuando, e ciente das recentes aquisições realizadas pela mesma ( incluindo a venda da própria),  ofertar uma visão neutra e realista a curto prazo para as possíveis novas estratégias de venda a serem adotadas em algumas de suas regiões foco  de atuação.

Have you ever stopped  to think about how EFFECTIVELY our emotions and the way we feel can affect directly our work? How many times have you heard that if you are feeling unhappy about your place of work or what you are doing, the chances that your work results will be affected ( for the worse) are really high?
Now  indeed there are may theories and researches, as well as experiments, that have proven this but there aren’t many “GUIDELINES”  in helping  people on how to address this issues. As part of my work as a coach and founder of the ELLEX Project ( http://www.ellex.org)  I can see on a daily basis how, among many other important factors, feelings and emotions should be taken seriously when evaluating  our human needs for learning, teaching, working, among other tasks.

Será que realmente estamos prontos para uma vida socialmente e intelectualmente conectada ?

O que está sendo feito para garantir que tenhamos uma educação para nossos filhos que garanta a devida preparação HUMANA, SOCIAL , INTELECTUAL e CULTURAL diante de um mundo inernauta e digital?

Apesar da atuar com educação e tecnologia, pessoalmente estas perguntas começaram efetivamente a me incomodar quando meu filho nasceu, e mais recentemente quando eu e minha esposa iniciamos a famosa jornada para encontrar o melhor local de seus estudos.
Pergunto: O que se oferece hoje como “ensino construtivitsa moderno” é realmente moderno para nossas crianças ou são apenas creches com agenda programada e diversões diversificadas?

Understanding the right moment to make a  career change can be challenging for most of us, specially when it comes to realizing we are on the wrong field and/or profession.

With the recent crisis and and  a high number of  layoffs in distinct markets, many people had to face with a really difficulty reality: What  to do next?

Most people also get confused when dealing with big changes specially when taking AGE into consideration, which in the majority of times blocks them into moving forward chasing their dreams.

Stories of people who changed their their life’s dramatically we all hear everytime, but have we actually reflected  about our paradigms and conception of our current work and lifestyle as well as changing  what we do and how we do it?

As we know  the way we work for any type of corporation today is really different than how it used to be  a few years ago. Not only technology  has changed but also new communication trends as well as understandings and conceptions of   a modern way of life, connected and socially engaged, changed the way we visualize ourselves as professionals and individuals.

Todays modern worker is willing to earn less in exchange for more quality of life, more time with the family, to live where they always wanted to live, among others facts. The  ”long-time asset employees” professionals , the ones that stayed working for decades and years in just one organization, are now,  aside from being evaluated by headhunters as a  possible “non-resilient” professional, searching for new challenges and work environments in shorter periods of time.

Many corporations are struggling to understand the eminent  important value of what I call “Intangible  benefits” for their employees while addressing those as  key factors in guaranteeing employee work satisfaction as well as important tool in keeping  the most talented people.

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It is amazing how the majority of us human beings  complain about getting  old. Most  complaints are about getting UGLY , fat, slower ,unproductive etc… I have heard  only from some blessed few people that indeed getting older was a gift of life.

Unfortunately today  we live in a society were most of people  thinks  egocentrically and plans their “getting old” future with a life of  ”so said ” solo enjoyment and happiness. Also,  a life of retirement is today SOLD , through the idea of endless trips and visits to golf courses( which are actually cheap advertisement for the easy selling of pension plans) ,  as a  actual GOAL to be set and opportunity to a deserved REST for a life of work.

The reality though is clearly WAY different.  Independently  of origin, race , job or any other major characteristic that  could describe our unique differences  as human beings, what we see today is actually a rescue of an old and real idealism that says  what we have know for a long time: We all can learn from ANY elder experience, NO elder wants to ACTUALLY retire and DO NOTHING and that we should live in a society where  the desire to share knowledge and experiences should be higher than loneness.

After reading this article by Kevin Eikenberry and brainstorming with myself  and some work colleagues ,I have decided to write this special article basically because of one TOPIC  that is commonly misunderstood by executives and corporations and deeply bothers me: The main GOAL of MEETINGS.

Kevin’s article focus on the main role of the leader while conducting a meeting,  and I would like to extend  that conversation addressing  the one thing that matters while scheduling meetings : THE OBJECTIVE or GOAL.

It is common practice by SEVERAL organizations and managers to setup schedules for reunions and meetings as a way to address an strategic approach in following up their employees work, customers satisfaction or any other process related review activity needed to be reviewed. I call those kind of meetings  ”WASUP Meetings” ( yes, WHAT’s UP meetings).

Basically those s are just intended to review or overview work , goals , next steps and etc… The question I would  like to suggest would be : Are those meetings really needed?

Intel made the announcement at a press event in Anaheim, California
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Apparently the published information on Dr. Gaskell’s viewpoints is very misleading
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• Some people treat others who work/live with them worse than they treat their customers/friends. Why?

Why would we treat people we are not even close better than others we interact more like work colleagues, friends and family?

Why we see mothers and fathers  complaining to their kids if they did something wrong in a worse way compared if they were to complain to some other stranger?

We need to love all the people around us!

If you have good customer service internally, your customers will feel it too!

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In this  outstanding Interview Michael Porter presents a disruptive view on the way we think of Capitalism and how  its current model of use does NOT benefit society as commonly assumed.

Some Main points from the Interview:

• We are stuck in a vicious cycle when thinking about the relationship between business and society
• Business has evolved in a way where the scope of economic value has been narrowed
• Today the purpose of Capitalism and its benefits to society is undervaluated
• Companies are being perceived on creating profit at the expense of the community
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Last  night while having dinner with some great friends of mine from Taiwan while rambling on facts about photography , Jouston Huang suddenly swipped-out a unique wide-range view camera so that, being a FOOD photography fan – by the way a good one – he could take shots of our plates.  At a glance I noticed that his camera was NOT DIGITAL ( thinking about a TECNOLOGY group of lads talking about the future of personal computing,  this could definitively sound odd to many of you reading)  and , after asking him about the reason for that,  not being a camera expert at all  but a photography fan too,  he kindly explained to me the main characteristics of the camera, types of film he was using and the ways and styles he would adopt while taking shots, specially food ones.                                                                                                                        In any event what  really intrigued me while we were talking was exacly about the popularity of digital cameras and how this affected directly the  way people actually CARE’S about pictures.  While in the “old days”( if I may say that) there was kind of more care and attention while taking  a picture ( you would never know what would be the result)  today you can just keep pushing tha buttons and taking thousands  of pictures until you got one that pleasures you.

Conversando com “headhunters” e empresas de recolocação de profissionais, parte de meu trabalho, pude averiguar que com o tempo o perfil dos profissionais, ou melhor, as características reivindicadas pelas empresas na seleção de altos-executivos tem mudado, e bastante, em especial no setor de Tecnologia.

Recentemente  uma pesquisa  demonstrou que , no setor de tecnologja, estão  buscando profissionais com O QUE chamamos de  ”SOFT SKILLS”, pessoas que possui habilidades de persuasão e liderança,  comunicação e comando.

Comprova-se   basicamente que devido a adoção cada vez maior de novas estruturas organizacionais “MATRICIAIS” especialmente port organizações como HP, ORACLE, IBM  entre outras , por verem o nível de complexidade aumentar devido ao crescimento organizacional assim como aquisição de outras corporações, as empresas estão valorizando mais o INTANGÍVEL   do que a razão e o eterno “PUSH”  em vendas.

Assim, estas empresas estão agora adotando técnicas como  a adoção técnicas de descrição e definição  de perfis de personalidades e psicométricos , cruzando estes dados com os seus perfis desejados para poder averiguar a compatibilidade com as vagas em questão.

http://video.tedxcopenhagen.dk/video/910935/alexander-kjerulf-happiness-at

Nesta  interessante  apresentação por parte  de Alexander Kjerlulf, discute-se um termo dinamarquês pouco conhecido – arbejdsglæde , que em resumo, significa “FELICIDADE O TRABALHO”.

O interessante de seu endereçamento a platéia é o efetivo reconhecimento de que FELICIDADE NO TRABALHO  seja algo BEM DIFERENTE ( e concordo totalmente)   de SATISFAÇÃO COM O TRABALHO.

Segundo Alex,  muitas pessoas estão satisfeitas com seus trabalhos e atividades porém não são efetivamente felizes! Srguindo seu devaneio  o memso propoem um brainstorm sobre o que nos deixa feliz na vida e no trabalho e o que podemos fazer para que consigamos isto.

Por que países como COSTA RICA e PANAMÁ possuem os que considera-ser as pessoas mais FELIZES do mundo,  e países como DINAMARCA entre outros sãi considerados países com pessoas SATISFEITAS porém nem tanto FELIZES.

Entre as razões para atingir a FELICIDADE efetiva, encontram-se EM ORDEM:

• 1-) Vida Amorosa
• 2-) Amigos( reais e não virtuais)
• 3-) Um trabalho que nos de significância e de significado
• 4-) Obter Sucesso

Fatos:  Empresas felizes dão mais resultados.

Vale o tempo para  relfetir.