The CEO/founder has three jobs. The first one, is to provide the vision. The things that could be. By providing a vision, a leader can instill purpose into every single person in the organization. The second, is relations, relations, relations. Customers, investors,...
What a better day than today to write about this? Almost 250 years ago, the people in the original colonies of the USA signed the Declaration of Independence against the “King of Great Britain (with) a history of repeated injuries and usurpations”. The...
In my daily writing, I save some drafts and some titles to be developed later and today, I noticed a pattern. Every few weeks or days, I save some kind of title that speaks to scarcity of ideas, to the day that will eventually come where I have nothing to write about....
You have heard it before, maybe even watched a movie or read a book. “What you envision, manifests”. There are some very famous versions of this, “The Secret”, your “vision board” exercise, etc. It may sound “woo woo”, but the truth...
Platforms and Marketplaces have one particular issue. You can build an awesome tool, make it robust, responsive, and even fun to use. You can put all the servers and routers behind it, and pour hours of development into it, but the real outcome gets determined by...
I was reading a case study about the once revolutionary “Mas por Menos” supermarket chain in Costa Rica. They were the first ones to introduce the self service experience in that country almost 100 years ago. Before them, there was only the regular corner...
