Pensamentos da Semana

1. Articles

1.1 Starbucks CEO ( Howard Shultz ) Entreview from HBR

"I do not believe that shareholder value is sustainable if you are not creating value for people who are doing the work and then the value for customers"

"You have to be honest and authentic and not hide. I think the leader today has to demonstrate the both transparency and vulnearability, and with the comee truthfulness and humility and obviously the ability to instill confidence in people, and not though some top-down hierarchical approach"

"We are living in a society where there is a need for human connection and a sense of community. And what we do every day is bring people together. People are using Starbucks stores as their own, and drinking coffee.

http://bit.ly/aA5xok

but for more details about Starbucks culture you can recover a book from Joseph A. Michelli ( Portuguese Edition available )

http://amzn.to/cY5sgq

1.2 Managing Yourself: Bringing Out the Best in Your People by Liz Wiseman & Greg McKeown from HBR May 2010

http://bit.ly/a7QZsb

In the book Multipliers ( http://www.multipliersbook.com/ ) you can find more details about this idea. For the authors be Multipliers is double the workforce for free, be diminishers require twice the resources.

In a Google Conference you can listen the authors about this idea :

http://bit.ly/9AGY56

2. Events

Conferência "Importância da formação Pupilos do Exército na criação de Líderes e de Empreendedores", 16/09/2010, Instituto Militar Pupilos do Exército, Estrada de Benfica, 374, Lisboa. ( Full Program will be available in the next days ).

Pensamentos da Semana

1. Articles

1.1 Vive la diference from Accenture Outlook

New research in Europe shows that the more diverse a company’s senior management—in terms of gender, nationality and other characteristics—the better the company is likely to perform.

http://bit.ly/dwVGnW

1.2 How to save your brand in the face of Crisis from MIT Sloan Management Review

http://bit.ly/dxk6vO

1.3 Why social media are ‘absolutely crucial’ to businesses by Kevin Tan from INSEAD

http://bit.ly/ci7MGY

2. Books

2.1 Inteligencia Politica - El Poder Creador En Las Organizaciones (Spanish Edition)
by Prof. Pascual Montanes Duato from IE

http://bit.ly/buEgJR

2.2 The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance by James A. Autry

To be Servant Leader you need : be authentic, be vulnerable, be accepting, be present and be useful. This concept tell us 6 things about leadership :

1- Leadership is not about controlling people, it's about caring for people and being a useful resource for people;

2- Leadership is not about being boss, it's about being present for people and building a community at work;

3- Leadership is not about holding on to territory, it's about letting go of ego, briging your spirit to work, being your best and most authentic self;

4- Leadership is less concerned with pep talks and more concerned with creating a place in whish people can do good work, can find meaning in their work and can bring their spirits to work;

5- Leadership, like life, is largely a matter of playing attention;

6- Leadership requires loves;

http://bit.ly/ahlGC3