A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

Written by Mark Schwartz in 2017. Some notes from the book Challenging questions: What is the relationship between IT and the business, and how does it change as we introduce Agile and Lean approaches? The way the CIO role is defined, conceived, and executed today is incompatible with Agile thinking. Honest and open conversations are … Read more

21 lecciones para el siglo XXI

Le regalé este libro mi padre estas navidades y cuando lo ojeé me gustó bastante así que me hice con el en formato digital. Me ha gustado mucho por la perspectiva con la que analiza las cosas especialmente interesantes los primeros capítulos. Yo lo recomiendo a todo el mundo, creo que es bastante didáctico en … Read more

The logic of the market

This book is an excellent way to learn how China transformed its economy from a rural and rudimentary model to a modern model dominated by technology. The author, Weiying Zhang look at the history with a different view that is worthy for the occidental reader.

Gregg Popovich, el sargento de hierro

Llevaba tiempo buscando un libro sobre Popovich, los busqué en inglés, nada, en español, nada. De repente me entero de la existencia de esta publicación, de manera que lo compré de inmediato. La historia está bien narrada, pero a mi gusto le falta un poco de indagación en aspectos de su vida más cercana. Comprendo … Read more

IV GARAJE 18

Este libro, se puede encontrar en Amazon, si solo aquí, y es la aventura de El Búfalo en su viaje desde Alaska a Nueva York en invierno. Es un libro divertido de leer y que te lleva a muy buen ritmo a través de sus aventuras. Si quieres leerlo, antes te recomiendo que veas videos … Read more

Naufragios

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is the main character of this book, which explains in old Spanish, all his adventures in America. The tone of the book is very basic, the stories are brutal and without any “sweeter”. The way they advanced, the starving periods they suffered, how they engaged with the original people of … Read more

Hard labor, by Sam Smith

This is a tough book to read, each page is difficult to digest, and every single story is hard to read. When I read Red and me, I found some hard stories about the racism, the challenges the players were having to dedicate their lives to this sport, etc, etc. Hard labor explains how this … Read more

Thinking basketball

In the back side of the book you can read: Behavioral economics, traffic paradoxes and other metaphors highlight this though-provoking insight into the NBA and your own thinking. So I bought the book. Some remarks to remind Individual scoring is not replaced, it is redistributed. Look at the global impact of a player, not just … Read more

Imperial life in the emerald city

I have listened this audio book during several trips. Finally this week I finished it. The way they, build teams, elevate priorities, focus on key milestones and economical driven decisions sounds very familiar to me. The big corporations I know works basically in the same way.