Hey! It is THAT time of the year when we HAVE to be grateful. It is like we have to drop everything else that we are doing and say thanks for what we have. Overall, it is a good thing. A great thing. We can all be grateful for the things that we have around us and...
Peter Drucker, in his book, “The Effective Executive” makes the point that is very hard to understand what customers are doing because there is no insight into what goes on inside their walls. Because of this, companies tend to be managed mostly in...
Our go-get-it culture constantly repeats us that we can be anything we want to be. The only thing needed is some focus and lots of hard work. Part of this is absolutely true. We live in times where individuals have a great power over their future, and they can...
Before you do anything else, ask yourself: “What is the one thing that I can (and must) do today to get me closer to my goals?” If you do nothing else, do that one thing. It will be worth more, and you’ll feel more satisfied than after a full day of...
It was one of those busy mornings when we just have to run to get something done. On a quiet street, the side of the road I was traveling on was free, but ahead there was a vehicle parked on the other side of road. I could see an SUV approaching the parked vehicle as...
So this may be old news for some of you guys. Especially because we are already at version 16 of iOS, and the previous version, iOS 15, was released in mid 2021. Although, there is a feature that was released with iOS 15 that -at least from my point of view-...
So many models today include this concept, but what is a flywheel? IRL, it is a massive -like with a lot of mass- wheel that keeps turning. Every internal combustion engine has one, where its function is to smooth out the motion originating from the cylinders pushing...
Validation is a great motivator. I know. It is for me. The applause at the end of the performance, the pat in the back. Feeling part of the group, being looked at with admiration, makes me feel proud. But validation by itself cannot be the driver of our lives. It is...
What does it mean to be a leader? As it happens many times in our English language, it is contextual. And I am not referring to contextual, or “situational leadership”. I mean that the term “leader” means a completely different thing depending...
We don’t want to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Get rid of the soiled, unwanted; keep the precious. This is why most entrepreneurs talk about “the pivot” and not a leap. A leap means lunging into the void, leaving everything behind, with all...
When we look back at history, we rarely think about inventions outside of the context of how they changed things after they appeared and got adopted. A different and interesting way of thinking about it is in reverse. How were things BEFORE their invention? If you...
Selling customer outcomes instead of just features is a better way to connect with their needs. It will always be a better way to sell the value of a product or a service. But as automobile commercials like to say, “your mileage may vary”, and you can...
Well, maybe. I love charts and beautiful and imaginative ways of representing data, and I discovered a new type of chart -at least for me- because of the labor of love of a gentleman called Phineas. You can see how plastic waste is processed HERE, in his appropriately...
The “uncanny valley” is a term first translated in 1978 from professor Masahiro Mori’s ‘bukimi no tani genshō’, and it was first used to refer to human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings and how these...
You know that thing that looks like the old version of it? The “radio” app on your smartphone that looks like an old timer radio, with dial and all? Or the eBook reader that turns pages and has a spine and you can see the edges of all the pages? The...
I don’t think there is a more popular buzzword today than “Metaverse”. So if we let other people smarter than me define it, I particularly like Karina Nobbs’, which goes like: “a persistent, live digital universe that affords individuals...
Every superhero or super villain has an origin story. We understand the heroes we grew up with, because we are familiar with them. But if we were to encounter one of them for the first time, there would be a lot of things that would not make sense and that would raise...
Americans, we are suckers for zombie shows and movies. How many more can we have? I have heard that we even make special weapons for those who want to prepare themselves for a zombie apocalypse. (I am not sure which part of that sentence is more wrong). Decomposing,...
Just because something has been recently made more convenient or more widespread, doesn’t mean that it didn’t exist before. Take for example, message boards, online forums, and blogs. We tend to assume these are mostly a product of the Internet, and even...
Every single one of us is running their own Agitprop. That’s the name used for the soviet Ministry of Agitation and Propaganda. It was an entity tasked with creating the official version of the facts, and drown out every other version. In that effort, they would...
Yeah. Faded work pants with holes on them. Or how about embellished work boots? Se where I am going? Why is that some categories go together “well” and we have decided that they don’t with other categories? Who is going to be the one to break the...
There is nothing worse than getting caught in something that you did not expect, that you did not prepare for. When you know something is coming, it allows you to build the necessary skills, strength, or resources to be in a better position. In addition, it also...
There is always a way to add more value. Here is an example. Imagine a good restaurant. Good service, better food, great ambiance. Put with terrible parking. Parking is scarce around the area, and the closest lot is four blocks away. Not good, Right? Well, now hire a...
In our completely mediatized and always on society, there are no throwaway comments anymore. Take for example the one in the picture: Theranos has been defunct for four years now, but their HQ’s address is still featured on Google Maps. What’s even more...
There are times when the words we are using do not work. We cannot get our point across, or worse, they are hurting or offending even when we mean well. When something like this happens, it leaves us asking ourselves what we could have done differently, or if there...
