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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 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 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 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 articleWhy would you delay something that you think is important to do? It doesn’t make sense, isn’t it? Maybe you’re one of the few people that always do what they say they are going to do. But for the rest of the human beings, procrastination is a real challenge. Just check this video about the …
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 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 …
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