Working Backwards, a book and a method

This book contains insights, stories, and information from Amazon. Written by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr (summary). Table of contents of the Book The Leadership Principles The Bar Raiser Process Single Threaded Leadership Narratives and the Six Pager PR/FAQs — The Working Backwards Process Controllable Input Metrics Wrapping Up Bar raiser process “Bar raiser” is … Read more

Multimedia Localization Projects

Why these projects are important? Many statistics say the consumer buys more when multimedia information they consume to decide if to purchase or not, is greater when the it’s provided in the local language. This is not the only situation when you are consuming information where the sender wants your attention (one of the major … Read more

Holacracy

I have read this book as part of my participation in a book club. This is also related to something I read about Sociocracy 3.0. After reading it I have the feeling I have not understood how to implement these principles and ideas in real live. I miss a more concrete ways to implement it … Read more

Year 5, Q3 Just books

During year 5 – Q2 I have focused on Wardley Maps and reading books. Unfortunately to me, I have to deaccelerate the workload of activities. So it will be a soft learning quarter on the schedule. The plan So the V2MOM for this quarter will be: Vision: Read, read and read. Values: Read things related to strategy and other … Read more

Burja mapping

What is it? It’s a stakeholder analysis tool where power, vitality and alignment is being considered. It’s not a replacement of Wardley Maps, it’s a complement to Wardley Maps. All concepts around a Burja map happens thanks to the Empire Theory, and the consideration of power. So let’s start with it. Empire theory Empire Theory … Read more

The finite and infinite game

This is the title of a book written by James P. Carse. On that book you can find that there are different attitudes you can have on the game. These strategic attitudes define the approach. We can apply these attitudes depending on the context, but what is crucial is to detect what are the other … Read more

Teams of Teams

This book written by General Stanley McChrystal is part of the readings I’m doing as part of a book-club readings. I have discovered things as: Scientific management by Frederick Taylor, Reductionist approach, Revision of the beginning of the manufacturing industry. The rest of the book is full of anecdotes and other stories that are very common … Read more

Weak signals

When discussing about future scenarios, we figure out assumptions, boundaries and characteristics that could make such scenario to happen. Related to this, the appearance of these future scenarios depends on signals: strong and weak signals. A strong signal is a phenomenon or thing that causes evident changes on the scenario. For instance, COVID-19 or a … Read more