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Last December, I started a coaching series, and while I was doing my introspection analyzing my behavior, my coach introduced me to the idea of my inner saboteur. What if I told you that you’re awesome, but there’s a high probability that you have forgotten about it, about your true self, your true potential. This …
Read the articleThis text first appeared in my newsletter. It was some weeks ago when I found this tweet (and article on Psychology Today) from Amy Edmondson, Ph.D., HBS professor, and book author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. My 120 character tweet summary just highlighted some of …
Read the articleThis is the continuation of an earlier post about Clayton Christensen and “How will you measure your life”. I decided to split the original post because, in my opinion, both works How will you measure your life and disruptive innovation, deserved an individual post. If you never heard about him, or you heard but you …
Read the articleThis post about Long Tail was originally created on 2012-04-15 in Spanish. These past days I have been reviewing the Harvard Business Review case study about Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com, to evaluate the factors that determined why an unknown internet company ended up winning the battle against the almighty Barnes & Noble, …
Read the articleYou may have probably heard about company culture and core values, so today I want to share some ideas about values. This title “values for which hire and fire” is the adaptation of an excerpt from a book mentioned below, and what it means is that you should base your recruitment process following your -company, …
Read the articleI wanted to write about professor Clayton Christensen since he passed away last January. Truth to be told, I didn’t know about him, his papers, and his books until recently. At first, I thought about writing about disruptive innovation, and I was looking to disruptive business models related to retail. But finally I decided to …
Read the articleIn the words of Robin Sharma: The way you start your day powerfully shapes how productively you live it. This is the purpose of the 20/20/20 formula, to improve your productivity by applying this new morning routine, starting the day with exercise, contemplation, and learning. This formula is included on his successful best-selling book The …
Read the articleIt was the year 2011, on a trip across the states, when I bought Tony Hsieh‘s book Delivering Happiness at the airport, don’t remember if it was LAX or Las Vegas. It was during my honeymoon trip. At that time I already know Tony’s profile as Zappos CEO, about its Amazon acquisition, and about the …
Read the articleHave you ever heard that leaders are readers? Reading “can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight”, and you’ll find that well-known world leaders, influencers, entrepreneurs, etc, usually share large lists of books that they had read yearly. As I mentioned in my new year’s resolution post, rebuilding my reading habit is one of …
Read the articleRecently watched on TV the film Heartbreak Ridge, produced, directed, and also starred by Clint Eastwood. I really loved this movie, I’ve seen it many times. But what has this movie and his main character to do with emotional intelligence? Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is one of his famous starred characters. A very tough guy, …
Read the articleEstos últimos días he estado revisando de nuevo el Harvard Business Review sobre el Liderazgo en Internet: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com, para evaluar los factores que determinaron el porqué una empresa desconocida de internet acabó ganando el pulso a la todopoderosa Barnes & Noble, por aquel entonces líder indiscutible en la venta minorista de …
Read the articleJosef Ajram, en tierras Ibicencas, tuvo un momento de inspiración que le hizo decidirse a no participar en la Ultraman para la que se estaba preparando, y dedicarse a escribir y promocionar este libro… Así comienza el libro, bajo la sombra de la crisis que acapara todos los noticiarios (y los que quedan), y la …
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