UBUNTU, SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

After reading the text written Mzamo P. Mangaliso a recognized academic from South Africa called Building competitive advantage from ubuntu: Management lessons from south Africa, I was impressed. Its amazing hoe different people can think in other places of the world and even from there we can take advices. The thing I like the most is that the ubuntu shows us the importance of respecting the others and also everyone needs from others in order to success.
In a society like mine where the self interest is above everything and even the people try to get advantage from other people trying to make them fail, just to feel they are more capable or just better than the other and the saddest thing its that sometimes this kind of people gain admiration in the society. In a culture like the one Medellin has, I think that a humaneness, a pervasive spirit of caring and community, harmony and continuity, respect and responsiveness among all members of our society will make us growth as a more spiritual economy making us improve in politics and economics, this way our culture would be more rich and attractive.
But now I want to focus this amazing philosophy into the companies. Not all companies behave the same way, so its imposible to adapt the ubuntu philosophy the same way to all of them. But what it is possible is to see, that all organizations in the world have different members and all this persons coexist and share a lot of their times together. For the ubuntu the relationship with others is really important and its based on the harmony and continuity, its also essential to mention the importance the interdependency between them. All this factors help cpmpanies to work properly and to be more profitable. I would like to mention also one cultural dimension studied by Geert Hofstede, the dimension is called high power distance and it talks about the distance the societies has between their members. To many companies around the world has a high power distance, which make the decision making process more difficult and long, if we apply the ubuntu philosophy to this distance between managers and employees the companies would have a better decision making process obtaining better solutions and faster.
I would also like to mention that in an internationalization process, the ubuntu philosophy would be for me the best option to interact with the new culture a company. A great example for this is the one of McCann Erickson and the South Africa black company called Herd Buyers, this was a great merging process in which the ubuntu helped. Today they jumped from the 14th place to be in the top five of advertising companies in South Africa.
To conclude I found the ubuntu a great philosophy to harmonize companies and make them more profitable, and better and nicer places for the workers, owners, etc. it would be more confortable to all of them from the doorman to the general manager.