Fernando Flores
Fernando Flores
Carlos Fernando Flores Labrais a Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and was senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions between 2001 and 2009. On March 31, 2010, he was designated President of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness by President Sebastián Piñera...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 January 1943
CountryChile
communication heart stories
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
thinking technological-change design
We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together.
assessment made my-own
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
reality life-is-hard affirmation
We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.
robots worst behave
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
mean organization care
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
knowledge commitment learning
An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.
risk identity able
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
motivational powerful business
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
calculate design problems
Your problems don't come because you don't know how to calculate entropies or to design plates. They come because you don't know about people.