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Wharton Nowledge, 2010

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The skills and leadership exhibited by the miners will be crucial to their survival, experts say. In an interview with Universia Knowledge@Wharton, Francisco Javier Garrido, a professor of strategy in various MBA programs in Europe and the Americas and author of such management books as The Soul of Strategy, discusses the lessons that can be learned from their experience. Garrido is a partner and director of EBS Consulting Group (Spain-Chile). Universia-Knowledge @ Wharton: In your view, what have been the keys to the miners’ survival, even when they didn’t know if the outside world presumed them to be dead? Francisco Javier Garrido: The keys to survival in an extreme experience such as this one … can be summarized by three concepts [that] can be applied to the business world. First, there is the [background and expertise] of those who compose the group of people. [Those skills] have been vital for correctly understanding the context [the miners] find themselves in, as well as for g

Lanzamiento de nuevo libro (La Serena, Chile)

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Este jueves 02 de Septiembre presentamos este nuevo trabajo en la ciudad de La Serena, gracias a la gentil invitación de Diario EL Día y Execuitve Business School. La presentación estuvo a cargo de Francisco Puga Vergara, Director del medio, en la que hizo una amistosa y afectuosa semblanza que agradezco profundamente. Luego de ello presentamos los contenidos y capítulos, dando paso a la firma de libros. Ha sido un día estupendo, en el que muchas caras de amigos, alumnos y exalumnos se han congregado en mi retina, con el cariño que sostengo desde siempre por esta hermosa ciudad. FJG