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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 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 started this post in my newsletter last week, but I decided to move it here because of its length. Weeks ago, Timnit Gebru, AI Ethical team co-lead and researcher, ended her collaboration at Google Brain. As a very summarized version, the story starts when Dr. Timnit Gebru and other colleagues sent a paper for …
Read the articlePolitical and group polarization was the starting topic in my last newsletter (issue number #18). Not focused on politics, but I found it interesting to read and write a little about polarization in groups. In politics, as in companies, or any group of people, polarization and extremism can appear when like-minded people join, and it …
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 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 articleMake feedback normal, not a performance review was the title of my eleventh newsletter issue, and I started it with the following writing about continuous feedback. There are more topics in the newsletter. This post is only an excerpt from it. Giving feedback is a hot topic. That’s why I used this quote, “Make feedback normal. Not …
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 articleThese thoughts and insights about the offboarding process, about people leaving, and even rehiring them after, were initially included in my last newsletter. Hard times are moments of reflection This pandemic year is very complicated for many companies, and still might be next year. This situation usually ends in a lot of changes, and good …
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 articleYou probably know Azeems Azhar’s Exponential View. Also, there’s a podcast, and the last time invited Daniel Hulme, CEO of Satalia, who explained his radical vision on how technology can be honest to build fundamentally decentralized organizations. I recommend you to listen to it, only 38 minutes, but if you want to know more first, …
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 articleCuando terminamos un ciclo o proyecto, llega el momento de echar una mirada retrospectiva. Es independiente a la metodología de proyectos que se utilice. Scrum realiza sus Sprint Retrospectives al finalizar el sprint, y en un Waterfall se llevaría a cabo una vez finalizada la ejecución del proyecto. Llevar a cabo la retrospectiva es fundamental …
Read the articleSiempre hay que considerar a la competencia, y no entiendo a aquellos que no lo hacen. Cuando digo considerar, no me refiero a vivir obsesionado por ella. A lo largo de mi experiencia lo he visto en varias ocasiones, argumentando que el target o nicho de mercado es diferente, o simplemente por considerarse mejores de lo …
Read the articleLa gente más afín a Scrum te dirá que si no practicas una metodología dentro del marco Agile estás anclado en el pasado, que para software es mucho más efectivo, y que es una metodología que aplican las grandes tecnológicas como Google, Yahoo, etc. Si te interesa Scrum y Agile, hace poco publiqué un post …
Read the articleThe main idea is to start a serie of posts about Project Management, and I’ll start talking about the role of the Project Manager. But before, we should clarify what is the Project Management, and above all, what is a Project. The Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and coordinating resources and people …
Read the articleLast sunday I was sent this infographic about the process of hiring a great developer. It is from General Assembly, never heard anything about them but I have already sign up for their course. Let’s see what happens… It is quite complete, and I found it very interesting and so curious, don’t you think?
Read the articleSalvo contados casos, nadie es imprescindible. Y querer estar en todos lados, es algo físicamente imposible. Al final, cuanto más quieres abarcar, menos tiempo puedes dedicar a cada tarea. Y eso se suele convertir en un bloqueo cuando tu labor es decisiva para que un proyecto pueda avanzar. Te puedes llegar a convertir en un perro del …
Read the articleLooking for its best definition, the one that most caught my attention was that the Software Development Manager is “everything else“. The main concern when considering a Software Development Manager is: Should have more technical skills? Must have a Project Manager profile? The answer may vary depending on the IT organization, size or type of …
Read the articleImplementing Scrum in a business is not an easy task, sometimes it may be a hard and long road. It involves a change that usually affects much of the company, and change management is always traumatic. I would also like to point out that it isn’t a methodology only for software development projects. The most …
Read the articleManaging teams, humans, is a difficult kind of art. And getting the most out of them is an obsession for every responsible or team leader. Surely, a certain economic raise often provides comfort and rewards the work of people, but it’s not all about money. Responsibilities, work ethic, dedication, motivation, are usually not directly connected …
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