Quick tour to the future
Ian Goldin, director of the 21st Century School at Oxford, tell us that growing inequality and increasingly complexity will define our future, at TED’s. How would we deal with technology (nano-bio-gen-info), energy or migration in a more comprehensive way? Which kind of global governance we need for it? And most important: Who will be able to afford this future? or how will we ensure this future is inclusive? Are some question that arise after listening the talk.

Unilever CEO’s on leadership
I would like to share with you this interview by McKinsey Quarterly to Paul Polman (Unilever CEO’s), especially regarding his views on leadership because I agree on the main point: We’re all leaders, and you don’t need to be a manager to behave as one. I will write more carefully my ideas on this topic later, for now, please hear how a mayor CEO talk about Gandhi’s leadership.

Most migration take place within regions
The Economist has just released a very interesting videographic on migration. The mobility of the workforce, a necessity even in Ricardo’s competitive advantage model (he talked about mobility of all factors), is already a reality even though law in countries haven’t fully adapt to it yet. The world won’t stop to integrate whether politicians or scary conservatives oppose to it. That brings new opportunities and challenges to adapt health care systems, labor legislation, global markets and consumers, as well as technologies and knowledge transmission, to mention a few. Nevertheless, as The Economist points out, migrating is expensive. We should

Centered leadership from McKinsey
Finding meaning, connecting, engaging managing your energy and having a positive framework are the drivers that McKinsey found in a survey on woman leadership and what later called Centered Leadership. Heavily influenced by the positive psychology, Centered Leadership emphasizes the role of positive emotions to excel as a leader and have a fulfilled life. Reed more here.

What kind of negotiator are you?
The Thomas Killmann matrix is an useful way to understand your main options when facing a negotiation. You must be conscious about which kind of negotiator you are facing and which kind of negotiator you want to be at that moment,  assuming you want to negotiate. Here is a simple and dynamic explanation of the TK matrix: