*  In sailing all these factors are also essential to the success of any team, the pinnacle of competition in the sport at the level of toughness, teamwork, stress and extreme situations is the competition that makes it possible to sail Around the World.

Leadership for Professional Nautical Managament

…preparing ourselves for team management

INTRODUCTION

Leadership today…

• Change has always been present, but today the products’ life cycle of

products has declined, continuing advances in information technology,

… hit us without warning …

• One needs to achieve success “being better than competitors” with the

tools at our disposal. …

• Even in companies that convey a pristine image there are conflicts,

inefficiencies, limited resources, the situation escalates, etc …

• Many leaders design the tactical operations and the organization based

on projects…

THE AIM OF THE SESSION

Based on our role as leaders and managers of talent, we aim to…:

• assist the “self-reflection” to help “introspection” in order to make

sense of past experiences

• be a source of ideas and inspiration to meet the current and future

challenges

• share experiences

WHY USE SAILING AS A CASE STUDY?

It is a competitive sport where the goal is to be better than others

• It has a clear horizon
• It requires a large financial investment and previous planning
• It depends on individual talent and team behavior
• Intensive and R &D technology can have a critical success weight
• Once at sea we must continue the competition until the end,

overcoming the unexpected or withdraw

• It is not free of personal risk
• It is hard, difficult and…. fun!

THE PRESENTATION

We do not pretend to find similarities with a company where there are

none, but to analyze it using the same parameters: