{"id":5267,"date":"2021-02-18T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/the-need-for-a-compass\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:38:31","slug":"the-need-for-a-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glocalthinking.com\/en\/the-need-for-a-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"The need for a compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">That we live in VUCA times is commonplace. Many live in confusion trying to surf these volatile and vulnerable times, that are uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Among other reasons due to the speed at which events unfold and also to the environmental noise that too often prevents people from stopping to think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Under these circumstances, it is important \u2013 and urgent \u2013 to engage in studies that provide, perhaps momentarily, a break from the immediate to come back to daily responsibilities with greater insight. That\u2019s what Enrique Sueiro, consultant and professor of management communication, has achieved in his latest publication. His previous books were \u201c<em>Saber comunicar saber<\/em>\u201d which translated into English is \u201cKnow how to communicate knowledge\u201d, \u201c<em>Comunicar o no ser\u201d<\/em> or \u201cCommunicate or don\u2019t exist\u201d, and \u201c<em>Comunicaci\u00f3n y ciencia m\u00e9dica\u201d<\/em> or \u201cCommunications and medical science\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<em>Br\u00fajula directiva: 25 horizontes<\/em>\u201d (2020), or \u201cManagerial Compass: 25 Horizons\u201d in English, is his new book targeted at anyone who aspires to manage with personal authority and whoever, through their management position, can improve the lives of others. Sueiro has been inspired by key figures in various fields: from classic Greek and Roman writers (Aristotle, Cicero, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius) to key authors in contemporary management (Drucker, Porter, Kaplan and Norton), as well as Nobel Prize winners in economics (Kahneman) and peace (Teresa of Calcutta, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama), and influential figures in the world of politics (Churchill and Arendt). The book distils his thirty-year-long professional experience. As a finishing touch to each chapter, he adds experiences, such as two terrorist attacks that touched his life, the inspiring people he met in various places worldwide, and any reading that transformed his opinion on some issues&#8230; As he rightly points out, &#8220;Today we need more compass and less stopwatch&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Extracting with skilful clarity from Carl Honor\u00e9&#8217;s thinking in \u201cIn Praise of Slow\u201d, the journalist and historian says that what\u2019s important is that<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'open sans';\">Evolution works on the fittest, not on the fastest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'open sans';\">A hasty existence usually turns into a skin-deep, superficial life.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"> If everyone chooses to run, accelerating is no longer a competitive advantage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Both Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius remind us in several ways that objectivity isn\u2019t in the hands of third parties and that we shouldn\u2019t depend on the opinions of others. Kempis put it differently: don&#8217;t rely on others for your happiness. We must choose people whose truths we find worthy. Or to paraphrase Jos\u00e9 Antonio Marina, votes and opinions shouldn\u2019t be counted, but rather weighed up. In other words, even if a crystalline source is sullied, healthy water will still flow. Even if it is muddied, you will end up cleaning it without becoming soiled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">While echoing Goleman, but levering the much more solid Xavier Zubiri, we are reminded that it is fundamental to analyse one&#8217;s emotions. The inability to perceive one&#8217;s own feelings leaves us at their mercy. Feelings are like cats: if they are not controlled, they end up scratching you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Existence is about wisely managing feelings, will and reason. Left to their own free will without fitting final cause, it is easy to go nowhere. And whoever advances too quickly without a goal in sight will end up lost or will only find their destiny by chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Enrique Sueiro correctly points out that today these are times for compasses rather than for chronometers. I\u2019d like to say again that no epitaph would look good with an expression like, \u201cHe answered 125,000 emails\u201d, nor with \u201cIt could have been&#8230;\u201d To be what we should be, what we are called to become, it is fundamental to figure out where we are going and to walk a little bit every day in the right direction and sense. Books like \u201c<em>Br\u00fajula directiva<\/em>\u201d on the managerial compass are a good crutch for walking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That we live in VUCA times is commonplace. 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