During the 80’s and 90’s existed a serial of books that allowed the reader to choose how to live the adventure, by deciding what path to take. Each of them had around 30 possible different endings. Before the pandemic, we knew how to handle our day to day, and from time to time we could … Continue reading Choose your own adventure
Book + Training + Practice this is how some of us have learnt to learn. But life does not come with a manual, there is no book to check on, no teacher, no trial and error process and we can only do our best. Not being sure if the answer it is correct, doesn’t mean … Continue reading Learning along the way
This morning on my weekly running, I came across a girl who was staring at her bike. Apparently she was having a hard time with its chains. On my way back, she was still in the same position, staring, same angle, same look on her face and not trying anything ay all... We can get … Continue reading Staring at it won’t make it go away
A million plans ahead, a million words you would like to say or have said, 1,000,000 moments you would like to spend among friends and/or family, books to read, conversations to have, projects to start, ideas to develop, places to visit, adventures to live, minutes needed to reset, kisses and hugs to be given, ... … Continue reading A million things
When you continuously challenge yourself, your environment, how things are done, how does the world work, .. You probably see fixable stuff everywhere. Organizations are made by people, their knowledge, skills and attitude. The oriented-to-change or to improvement organizations&teams are always looking around, searching for things to be fixed, anything that can be improved by … Continue reading We do not have a problem
You have been asked to read and summarize a document. And someone else was asked to do so before you. That person highlighted what he/she considered were important parts or remarkable ideas. Should you just replicate what was done and make your someone else’s words?Should it be a guideline, to develop your own thoughts and … Continue reading What was highlighted by others before you did
There is this mind game. There is a farmer that visits a market and buys a wolf, a sheep and a cabbage. On his way back home, he needs to cross a river. On the boat he can only carry himself one of them to the far bank of the river, so here is the … Continue reading Wolf, sheep and cabbage game
When facing decisions, or changes we can look only at the cost / benefit piece. That of course, will bring useful figures but it is not always about making the numbers. Qualitative data is as important as economics. What can you get from the new software, how would it bring the team to the next … Continue reading The business case
Seems that the short term means more pressure than the long term plan but id does not. We can usually find ourselves surrounded by who is willing to bet only in the short terms efforts and results. Who is always living in the urgency, demanding a new, additional effort. Than can be one time thing, … Continue reading Long term investment vs short term results
It would be rare that you’d never heard of, never been told about the comfort zone. How we should always try to expand it, by moving one step away from it progressively. Is always scary to stop doing what you master to experiment. So it’s easier to agree to developing by trying something new but … Continue reading Being brave to suck at something