Looking for a job in Europe Vs USA

There are differences when looking for a job in USA and in EMEA. These are the ones I found by myself. Applying to a vacancy: Europe: no personal questions. USA: ask for gender, race, disabilities and if you are a veteran. Relationship, recommendations Europe: good, not mandatory. USA: it’s key you have a recommendation inside … Read more

Welcome to the unicorn club

This article is large, it takes more than 10 minutes to be read in detail but it gives a very good perspective about the software companies over 1B$, the perspective of VC, consumer and enterprise oriented companies, how they are formed and some other data that provides a good perspective of the market. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/ Who … Read more

Destructive and constructive actions

When change is required, and you are defining the actions you want to put in place, you have to define properly the actions and its sequence. In the same way the see builds the line of the coast with destructive and constructive waves, on a transformation program or change initiative you can have these two … Read more

Strategy analysis of environment

Understand your business environment is key when defining the approach of your strategy, the way you want to promote the change, penetrate a new market or just achieve your goal. Can I predict it? Can I shape it? Can I survive in it? Can I change it? What are my limits? For each type of … Read more

Fix mobile usability issues found

Google Sending Mobile usability warnings to huge number Of Webmasters. And the platforms as wordpress, prestashop, shopify…  are part of this massive communication. The message I receive is:  “Fix mobile usability issues found…”  follow by the domain name. My honest opinion is that this is the way Google is saying us: check out your mobile … Read more

Red and me, Bill Russel

I was doing my visit to the Barnes & Noble store and I found this book, read some pages randomly and I decided to buy it. The behavior principles of a person, the way to evolve in a relationship with a person who came from a different world, team management, leadership, respect, how to align … Read more

Donkey and Carrot in modern corporate life

What can you do with a current vendor who is not part of your future vendor strategy road map? Vendor management strategy is composed by complex set of actions based on basic principles and tactics. You have a current scenario, and you define future set of alliances with respect your portfolio of assets. Nothing new … Read more