Books
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Cuida quien te rodea
❝Un estudio de hace unos años publicado en el New England Journal of Medicine halló que la «obesidad puede contagiarse de persona a persona, casi como un virus… Cuando una persona gana peso, sus amigos íntimos ganan peso también» 💡 Según explica el catedrático de Harvard Nicholas Christakis, uno de los investigadores 👨🏻🔬 principales del estudio: «Una explicación es que los amigos afectan a la PERCEPCIÓN de la gordura. Cuando un amigo íntimo se vuelve obeso, la obesidad empieza a no parecer tan mal» 🤔 En nuestro interior, todos somos miembros de una TRIBU 🙏🏻, o de una serie de tribus, empezando con nuestras nacionalidades y familias, y extendiéndose hasta los…
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Customer innovation
“When scanning for signals of EMERGING CHANGE, the difficulty is not in finding information; it is in WHAT TO ATTEND to and what you can ignore.”Marion Debruyne. The perspective of your existing customers views the market close up and in depth. This narrow market view gives you the clearest and MOST RELIABLE PICTURE. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND 🧐 and UTILIZE the INSIGHTS 💡your customers can offer. HELP YOUR CUSTOMERS TO IMPROVE THEIR RESULTS‼️ Many companies prioritize innovation, but incremental and breakthrough changes are challenging 🏄🏼♂️ Try to pursue opportunities for small improvements. Making frequent small-step product/services fixes requires a culture that EMBRACES CHANGE, and so does implementing market-changing breakthroughs…
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Customer innovation
“When scanning for signals of EMERGING CHANGE, the difficulty is not in finding information; it is in WHAT TO ATTEND to and what you can ignore.” Marion Debruyne. The perspective of your existing customers views the market close up and in depth. This narrow market view gives you the clearest and MOST RELIABLE PICTURE. Your goal is to UNDERSTAND 🧐 and UTILIZE the INSIGHTS 💡your customers can offer. HELP YOUR CUSTOMERS TO IMPROVE THEIR RESULTS‼️ Many companies prioritize innovation, but incremental and breakthrough changes are challenging 🏄🏼♂️ Try to pursue opportunities for small improvements. Making frequent small-step product/services fixes requires a culture that EMBRACES CHANGE, and so does implementing market-changing…
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Cielo e Infierno
❝En cierta ocasión, un belicoso samurai desafió a un anciano maestro zen a que le explicara los conceptos de CIELO e INFIERNO. Pero el monje replicó con desprecio:—¡No eres más que un patán y no puedo malgastar mi tiempo con tus tonterías! El samurai, herido en su honor, montó en CÓLERA y, desenvainando la espada, exclamó:—Tu impertinencia te costará la vida.—¡Eso —replicó entonces el maestro— es el INFIERNO! Conmovido por la exactitud de las palabras del maestro sobre la cólera que le estaba atenazando, el samurai se CALMÓ, envainó la espada y se postró ante él, AGRADECIDO.—¡Y eso —concluyó entonces el maestro—, eso es el CIELO!❞ Daniel Goleman, “La inteligencia…
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Change your world
❝Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS?’❞(Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.) Are you ready to step up and CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER – and in the process, CHANGE YOURSELF as well? If not, you may suffer from the defeatist mind-set that afflicts many people. That contagious negativity confines you to a small box that prevents you from making a positive difference. Moving from passive non-involvement OBSERVER 🧐 to an ACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVER 👨🏻🔬 is a 4️⃣-step process. 📌 “I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE” – You need conviction, compassion and hope 🤩. Doing good makes people feel good.📌 “WITH PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE” – The…
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Amplitud
La HIPERESPECIALIZACIÓN es un desafío en el mundo actual, pues la cantidad de conocimiento humano es más vasta que nunca. El conocimiento público se expande rápidamente, permitiendo que los PERFILES CURIOSOS contribuyan a resolver problemas que antes solo manejaban los especialistas. ¡Qué difícil es presentar conceptos complejos de una forma sencilla! David Epstein lo consigue en “RANGE” 📚Contribuye a ello quizás su experiencia en Sports Illustrated, donde debe escoger un perfil amplio que le garantice alcanzar una vasta audiencia 🏄🏼♂️ Hablando de especialistas, defiende Epstein, que se enfocan tanto en detalles propios de su campo que llegan incluso a distorsionar su pensamiento. Su experiencia en la ZONA DE DOMINIO les…
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¿Qué nos motiva?
𝔼xisten tres necesidades psicológicas en la CIENCIA DE LA MOTIVACIÓN para establecer los vínculos más esenciales entre el quehacer y las RAZONES PARA HACERLO, que son “autonomía, relaciones personales y competencia” 👨🏼🏫 · AUTONOMÍA – Contar con la LIBERTAD PARA EJERCER LA VOLUNTAD Y TOMAR DECISIONES es uno de los grandes cimientos de lo humano. Una empresa que permite que sus colaboradores TOMEN DECISIONES 🧭, a pequeña y gran escala, respecto a su trabajo reforzará el sentido de pertenencia y compromiso. · RELACIONES PERSONALES – El sentido social es uno de los pilares de la humanidad. FORMAR VÍNCULOS y tener un SENTIDO DE COMUNIDAD es una de las actividades intrínsecas…
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Presentations – Keynotes
❝Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to SPEAK, your ability to WRITE, and the QUALITY OF YOUR IDEAS. In that order.❞ 👨🏼🏫 Patrick WINSTON. I’m ending a workweek in which I had opportunities to share insights in different 🖥 Zoom meetings with colleagues. Honestly talking, one of the tasks I love the most in my day-job 😜 📌 Here you are some tips adapted from Winston that I -usually- have in mind when I have to deliver a talk: 💥 DO NOT START WITH A JOKE (let’s leave it for last). I love the sense of humor, but I try not to start making jokes…
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Most Valuable Players
❝The MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS are never finished. They are continually ADAPTING, ADJUSTING to hit the mark.❞ ⭐️IMPACT PLAYERS ADAPT to changing conditions faster than their peers because they interpret new rules and new targets as opportunities for learning and growth 🧠 While they appreciate affirmation and positive feedback, they actively seek CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND CONTRARY VIEWS AND USE IT TO RECALIBRATE AND REFOCUS THEIR EFFORTS ⚓️ While others attempt to manage and minimize change, impact players are LEARNING AND ADAPTING TO CHANGE 🦅 To embrace the habits of these impact players:📍Seek guidance – Managers respond well to coachable employees. Impact players ask for feedback, not validation, and INCORPORATE CRITICISM into their…
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Flow Theory
🏕Indians in the Shuswap region of Canada🍁, were settled down in a place filled with resources, and life was good, and they had everything they needed… but the elders 👴🏼 would make sure that the entire village would just pack up and move to a new location every 25 or 30 years 🧐 This way, they knew they would have NEW PLACES TO EXPLORE🌲and hunt 🎣 and fish and NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME… 🤔 😩You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO CHALLENGING, otherwise you’ll have ANXIETY.🥱You don’t want what you’re doing to be TOO EASY FOR YOUR SKILLS either, otherwise you’ll be BORED. It’s when you balance these…
