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This post was originally included in the 24th issue of my weekly newsletter. If you find it interesting, maybe you’d be interested in subscribing. If you were asked which leadership style was the best, what would you answer? I already looked for an answer to this question in a post about leadership styles months ago. And this …
Read the articleI included the topic of introverted leaders in my eighteenth newsletter. This post is based on it. In the issue, I started introducing a video from Business Insider, where Adam Grant shared why introverted people would be better leaders. Adam Grant is a well-known psychologist, bestselling author, and professor at Wharton School. At first, I didn’t …
Read the articleCommunication and Leadership in Times of Crisis was the title of my seventeenth newsletter issue. This post is an excerpt from it. If we are going to adopt full-time remote work or any other temporary solution, it will be helpful to keep in mind some tips for improving communication and support teams. Being there for …
Read the articleI wrote about Vulnerable Leaders in my sixteenth newsletter. The original idea comes from the articles from Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy C. Edmondson. Maybe you remember a post about Leadership Styles from some months ago. Maybe this kind of leadership would be a new one, suitable for the current situation, especially thinking about the world …
Read the articleThis post is a wrap-up of several excerpts from recent issues of my newsletter. I included articles and reactions to a post that asked to keep business and politics, and social activities separate. It all started some weeks ago, ending September, when Brian Armstrong, Coinbase co-founder and CEO, published an article at the Coinbase blog …
Read the articleAfter 20 years, Tony Hsieh retired from CEO and left Zappos. There is a leadership learning opportunity in analyzing this period. You could find the details in this article. I also included this news section in one of my past newsletter issues. Since I read his book Delivering Happiness in 2011 (a book that I always recommend), I’ve been …
Read the articleI already wrote about what a leader is and what leadership means in my previous post about what makes a leader. But did you know that there are different leadership styles? Leadership styles are classifications of how a person behaves while leading a group. To be effective as a manager, you might use several different …
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 articleCompany Town hall meetings, all-hands meetings, q&a meetings or sessions, are defined as a way that the management of a company has to meet and connect with their employees. A member of upper management (CEO, board member, or a country/regional manager) usually hosts these meetings that are attended by all employees, or in these times …
Read the articleWe are all different as human beings, and guessing about people’s personality types is always a mystery. I will share today my experience doing a test that I did several years ago, and that helped me in that way. In my personal experience, it started as a kind of game included inside a training. We …
Read the articleWhile I was reading the book “The Making of a Manager” from Julie Zhuo, she shared an experience that reminded me of a previous and similar experience. So I decided to write about what means to be a manager or to move or promote to a manager position. I also would like to recommend her …
Read the articleThis post has its origin in the newsletter, where I shared my opinion about the leadership of the GOAT and asked about the same questions about his leadership style and what makes a leader, and also in “The Last Dance” series from Netflix, where we all were able to see the amazing years from those …
Read the articlePeople centric is a term that I didn’t use to have in my bag of words. And it is strange. I mean, as a manager, I always thought to be a team player, a servant leader. I always understood my work to be as a facilitator or enabler for the team, but with all the …
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 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, …
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