Bøker av Mariano Ortega

emails from @merica is a book that looks at some aspects of our normal, taken-for-granted social surroundings and everyday life -which for us are an automatic, unconscious, and unquestioned part and parcel of our country and our daily routines- with different, pristine -if admiring- alien eyes. In a discovery tour, a fictional foreign national, visits some of the United States' most emblematic cities, like New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans, with the clear aim of learning as much as possible about the USA, its customs and its mores -a nation the writer considers the epitome of an exemplary first-world country. The result is this insightful and eye-opening book -a collection of the emails he writes home, reporting his observations and experiences; giving the reader the chance of rethinking topics like education, justice, politics, race, gender, freedom, equality, immigration, and the law, from a fresh and incisive perspective.

Tuam es un poema de la integración y el choque de dos tierras, dos lenguas, dos tiempos, dos culturas. Un ir que sueña con su regreso porque dejó intactas sus raíces.Tuam is a poem of the integration, the tension and the clash of two lands, two languages, two times, two cultures. A departure forever dreaming of its return because it left its roots intact.

Exactamente medio siglo después de su primera edición, aparece esta segunda edición de "Asíntotas", el poemario adolescente de un muchacho de los años sesenta del siglo XX en la búsqueda tan consciente como imposible -para quien todavía no ha vivido- de los rumbos posibles, vislumbrables, de una vida que comienza. Exactly half a century after it was first published, comes this second edition of "Asymptotes", the teenage book of poems of a boy from the sixties of the twentieth century in a search as aware as it is impossible, -for him who has not yet lived- of the possible directions for a life that is just beginning.

El estudio de la cultura organizacional es relativamente reciente y si quienes las operan y dirigen atienden sus culturas es más por intuición que con conocimiento en una especie de ruleta rusa determinada más por la suerte o la casualidad que por la reflexión informada y la experiencia.Este libro busca ayudar a fortalecer las bases para la comprensión de la cultura organizacional, para su administración y, en su caso, para su transformación consciente e informada.Para ello, apoyándose en el enfoque de Dimensiones organizacionales, el libro revisa los conceptos de cultura en general, de cultura organizacional y de subcultura; ofrece un panorama de los contenidos potenciales de las culturas, así como algunas tipologías y descriptores utilizados para estudiarlas; analiza variables y elementos para su formación y desarrollo; y examina opciones para su administración y transformación.The study of organizational culture is relatively recent and if those who operate and lead them have paid any attention to their cultures it is far more from intuition than from knowledge -in a kind of Russian roulette determined more by luck or chance that informed reflection and experience.This book aims to help strengthen the foundation for understanding organizational culture; for leading and managing it; and, where appropriate, for changing and transforming it in a conscious and well informed process.Using the Organizational Dimensions approach, this book reviews the concepts of culture in general, of organizational culture and of subculture; provides an overview of the potential content of cultures as well as some typologies and descriptors used to study them; analyzes variables and elements for their creation and development; and examines options for their management and change.

El liderazgo parece ser una de las actividades más problemáticas y menos bien entendidas en las organizaciones contemporáneas.Desde que la actividad principió a conceptualizarse, se le entiende como una capacidad estrictamente personal; se confunde con el puesto, la imagen o el poder que se detenta; y se crea una dicotomía infranqueable entre líder y seguidores.Rompiendo con las premisas y prácticas del liderazgo del siglo XX, este libro ofrece una visión innovadora, una visión dimensional, relacional, contextual y distributiva del liderazgo que configura un liderazgo total, el liderazgo absoluto. Leadership seems to be one of the most problematic and least understood activities in contemporary management.Often confused with position, image or power held; leadership is usually seen as naturally and permanently on the opposite side of an insurmountable dichotomy between leadership and followership.Breaking with the premises and practices of twentieth century leadership, this book offers an innovative understanding of leadership; a dimensional, relational, contextual and distributive vision of leadership: Absolute leadership.