Camelia Ilie Cardoza
President | Corporate Governance & Leadership Development
Professor at INCAE Business School
The central thesis of the TED talk is clear: many boards of directors act as “harvesters” of short-term results, failing in their proper role as “planters” of future and long-term value.
The main challenge lies in overcoming three limiting paradigms:
- The obsession with the short term vs. legacy thinking
- The preference for uniformity vs. diversity of perspectives
- The focus on supervision vs. the capacity for foresight (or prospection)
The most visionary boards don’t just integrate financial and legal expertise; they also include philosophical, anthropological, and scientific perspectives that make us ask ourselves questions we didn’t know we had to ask.
The optimal time for organizational transformation is when it’s least needed—when everything is working well and nothing seems urgent. Only by securing the planting during times of abundance can the future be guaranteed.
Video only in Spanish.
