Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD)

In these times of global recesion and lack of employment, creative minds should take the initiative and move on self-employment.

 

If you are a Tiger and you feel that now, in your city, region or country you feel you cannot give your best, probably it's time to think twice about self-employment.

 

Just have a look on what Harvard Business School is including in their MBA programme:

 

“Learning by doing” will become the norm, if a radical overhaul of the MBA curriculum succeeds."

"The 900 students arriving in Boston this summer for their two-year course were told they would be guinea pigs. The new practical addition to HBS’s curriculum is known as “FIELD” (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development)"

"...students will be given eight weeks, and seed money of $3,000 each, to launch a small company. The most successful, as voted by their fellow students, will get more funding. "

via economist.com

8 weeks and 3,000 $... Can you do the same with 3,000 € in your city?

If you feel now like a tiger in jail, with no future in your actual brand or if you're unemployed, think about it.

Quality of Leadership - Spain vs Germany

Few weeks ago, @vientodevenus posted "No encontrar tu universidad en las listas internacionales no tiene precio, la matricula si".

Not finding your University in International rankings is priceless, the tuition if.

According to Financial Times' ranking, Spain has two of the Top 10 World Business Schools in Global MBA Rankings. Germany has none.
However, "Germany's recovery from the global recession has been among the fastest of major economies, surging at a 6.1% annualized rate in the first quarter of 2011 alone. Its budget deficit is a small fraction of those in the U.S., Britain and Japan. Whereas the U.S. faces chronic unemployment, Germany's jobless rate is at a 20-year low". (Wall Street Journal, June 27-2011)

How is it possible that Germany, with no Top level institutions, has been developing better than the other European countries for the last 20 years? What happen to Spain and its managers? Maybe the quality of the leadership doesn't make the difference.

In Germany, "small and midsize companies make up nearly 80% of private-sector employment in Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy, and 98% of its 350,000 exporters. Mittelstand companies ship products to, on average, 16 different foreign markets". (Wall Street Journal, June 27-2011)
In Spain is almost the same.

According to these data, there's no reason to think that spanish growth should be less than german growth. So some people suggest that the problem a cultural matter.

Are Spanish employees more inefficient than german ones?

How is it possible? Chairmen and stakeholders trust in our well educated managers to make our employees do their best. Álvaro González-Alorda, writer and professor at ISEM Fashion Business School says that "The quality of your leadership depends on the quality of your conversations". He doesn't mention the notoriety or popularity of the Business School.

So I asked myself:

Are our managers educated in conversation?

Are our managers leading people in the right way?

How are we supposed to change our employees way of behaviour in order to avoid or reduce inefficiencies if we don't comunicate properly?