On November 23, 2007 the first “meet the thinkers” conference, a concept initiated by the guys at Publica, ctook place in Bucharest with Jonas Ridderstråle and Kjell Nordström as speakers. I had the chance to be present at this event and it was truly an experience worth the effort (financially and trip-wise).
The introductory speech of Andrei Plesu managed to warm up the crowd, who then enjoyed 2 sessions of over 3 hours presented by the 2 gurus. Together with the 500+ audience, I was pleasantly surprised by the rhythm and dynamics of the sessions, the large amount of new information they managed to communicate in an informal, easy to follow way. The dialog between the two speakers and the audience made the time really fly.One idea that really stuck with me, probably because I was faced with it in different forms in the past, which deserves to be noted and applied on any size of organizational structure, is:
The easiest way to determine people to share their values is to hire those people who already behave this way. As a consequence, we’ll see more and more organizations that will recruit people with the right attitude from the company’s point of view, and then train them in accordance with the applicants’ aptitudes.
Karaoke Capitalism, 2003
