Las Vegas

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You travel to a new city and which you have seen in TV so much times and the exercise your mind does is to confirm or disregard the labels you created in your mind. All based in the small adjustments you do when you arrive there. In my case, these were the small adjustments my … Read more

Strategy drives digital transformation

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This is a nice article that talks about some myths about digital transformation. I like the comments related to: Maturity of your organization: not all organizations can start from the same start line, the level of current maturity is important to understand how drive it. Talent challenge: as in the 90’s the companies wanted their … Read more

OSCON Videos

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I have enjoyed watching videos from the Open Source Convention. I like the visionary videos, and to learn from some very interesting people who prepared these nice speeches. The videos have something good: they take 10 – 15 minutes, no more… well there are some exceptions. The Making of a Cloud Native Application Platform – … Read more

Qué hacer con tus miedos

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Este libro lo descubrí cuando su autor lo estuvo presentando en la radio. Me atrajo la idea de los ejercicios prácticos y las técnicas comentadas para poder salir de la zona de confort y trabajar tus emociones. Después de leerlo, me han convencido mucho más la primera parte donde se describen los tipos de miedo, … Read more

Rudnitsky sales playbook

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Business insider reminds us these useful rules that appear in the book behind the cloud; these are the 11 sales rules from David Rudnitsky: “Think BIG, Have Attitude”: Think big (dollars and scope), not just the immediate opportunity in front of you. Behave as if your company is big, even if it’s not. Salesforce’s average … Read more

Limiting beliefs

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The dictionary says that a belief is an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof. The beliefs are the pillars of the expectations. These beliefs are built during our childhood, and after that they become strong and part of our personality. To discover and modify these beliefs is not part of … Read more

The reality of traditional banks

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Some days ago I was writing about the challenges of the traditional banks. This morning I was creating an e-mail on Gmail while I was connected from UK and this message came to the front-end of the screen:           Google already arrived to the customer “as a Bank”, no as an … Read more

DuPont Finance Analysis

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This way to perform financial analysis started to be done by DuPont in 1920, and it gained a lot of recognition and acceptance. Profitability (measured by profit margin) = Net profit/Sales Operating efficiency (measured by asset turnover) = Sales/Assets Financial leverage (measured by equity multiplier) = Assets/Equity The calculation sequence is as follows: ROE = … Read more

Leadership Vs. Defensiveship

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Corporate life is full of management styles: leadership, authoritative, micro-management….I’m able to differentiate other type which I call “defensiveship”. I do not know if this concept exist or if it has other name (probably “defensive behavior” is more correct), anyway! Defensiveship can appear by different reasons: in organizations where middle layers of management are more … Read more