Thursday, January 17, 2008

Peruvian “Losers”

As the CFO our hero wanted to meet his finance team. As we said all people were frightened. This was even more intense in the finance team, since they had the interaction with headquarters. The team had two managers. A controller and an accounting manager. Both of them spoke English. Our hero spent all day with them in order to understand the business and the situation in the company. It was clear that finance was totally underestimated in the company. This had to change. The next couple of days he met all the people in the company. He was pleasantly surprised. Most of them seemed excellent professionals. Later he would see that he was correct. However their morale was extremely low. These three headquarter executives had made them feel like bad professionals. If you continuously here that you are a looser, after a while you start believing it….

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