Management Miners

Initially it was estimated that it would take four months for the rescue, but the Government now believes that it could pull the first miners in October, thanks to a giant tunnel boring machine ready to pierce the Earth’s surface. Inside, the images recorded by the miners themselves have shown extreme conditions which have had and will have to endure until the rescue to materialize: up to 35 degrees of temperature, air humidity of 90% and food rationing. But, above all, the degree of organization of miners has been patent. From the time of the accident, have been those who have distributed the refuge in areas of nursing, gambling, food and bedroom, as well as leadership that some have taken to survive. For example, the head of shift Luis Urzua Iribarren has commissioned from the beginning to distribute the roles between the miners. One of them, Mario Sepulveda, receive and manipulate the capsules for food and drugs arriving from abroad. Victor Segovia, write down everything that has happened in the refuge since the first day of the disaster, August 5. These skills of Organization and leadership will be crucial time that lasts its closure and during the start-up and completion of their own rescue.

Experts estimate that the miners will have to remove up to 4,000 tons of rock and will have to organize in 24-hour shifts, separated into different crews. He says the information source indicated, which is an experience which, undoubtedly, will be studied in the worldwide business schools and now scans for Universia Knowledge@Wharton, the Chilean Francisco Javier Garrido, Professor of strategy at several MBA s in Europe and America and author of books on Management as the soul of the strategist (2010). Universia Wharthon asked him to Professor Garrido, in your opinion, what have been the keys to make the Group survive without knowing if they gave them for dead? This answer, as keys that arise for survival in an experience like this and for a group of heterogeneous professionals limit, as those who give life to this dramatic situation, can be summarized in three concepts, which in turn can be applied in the business world.