Tres años después.
Es curiosa la forma en la que funciona la memoria. Si bien, nuestros recuerdos pertenecen a algún momento específico en el tiempo, hay ocasiones en las que llegas a un lugar y pareciera como si fuese ayer, la última vez que lo visitaste. Así me siento en Växjö.
Hoy por la mañana mientras recorría los jardines de la universidad, casi sentí como si pudiera dirigirme hacia mi edificio, abrir la puerta, subir las escaleras y encontrarme con mi sala justo con el libro que estaba leyendo sobre uno de los sillones.
Me llena de alegría estar aquí y dedico este pequeño texto a dos grupos de personas: A aquellas que me acompañaron durante la aventura más grande de mi vida y a aquellas a las que conocí y que me conocieron como soy hoy, gracias a haber estado aquí. Continue reading “Desde Suecia 12″
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Or no extra effort at all.
I hear the words social and media together at least 10 times a day and I’m starting to hate them. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m an atheist, but a person with low tolerance to repetition. It makes me feel like when I listen to the same song 5 times a day! At first, the song might be just brilliant but three weeks later its a brain killer.
Anyway, I think the term Social Media is widely overused and not well understood. Let’s start by saying that this buzzword is a child of the Web 2.0 family. As such, it represents the democratic activity of sharing media, say content, with other people. Social Media is the phenomena of having millions of people sharing content with others. Continue reading “Social Media might need much more effort than you thought. (Part 1)”
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“La mayor responsabilidad que tenemos las personas es encontrar el lugar en el que podemos hacer una mayor contribución a nuestro entorno”
– CS
La semana pasada (en medio de la crisis porcina) renuncié a mi cargo como Director de CIMA Labs dentro de CIMA CI, y con ello terminó mi relación con Tikkia, el proyecto que había venido impulsando los últimos 8 meses.
Además de mi, todo el equipo de Tikkia también hizo maletas. Continue reading “Adiós Tikkia. Hola mundo.”
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If you know me, you probably have realized that I’m a rather chaotic person. I don’t believe that much in rules to help myself, and others, keep things in their right place. Whenever somebody tries to impose a rule on me, I reject it at once (even though I might consider following it later). This behavior has got me into trouble many times, especially with my parents, teachers and bosses.
However, I’ve never felt this is a wrong attitude towards life. Quite the opposite, I have always listened this inner voice telling me “Accept no rules!”
If you don’t know me, maybe you’re starting to think I’m an anarchic punk going around doing whatever I want. Nonetheless, you wouldn’t be more mistaken.
I just feel that following rules imply that I’m stupid. Continue reading “Rules improve the result of your team. NOT.”
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I have to confess that I met the Silicon Valley through the books and other writings from the people that was actually there. Quite a few years before being in the Bay Area for the first time, I already knew enough from the innovation culture there.
Once, I read a fantastic book called “Weird Ideas that Work” by Stanford faculty member Robert Sutton. It just changed the way I thought about business and management. The book described 11 and a half pieces of managerial thought that wouldn’t make sense outside the innovation culture of Silicon Valley. Ranging from defying superiors to hiring slow learners (of the organizational code), his ideas present a complete approach on how to build a creative company that delivers highly innovative products to the market.
But one of the ideas of the book, simple yet powerful, is: Reward success and failure, punish inaction.
Continue reading “Learn to fail… FAST!”
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Sometimes, entrepreneurship is an art, or maybe a science, but at times it’s just a matter of being gutsy enough. During some difficult times, running a new endeavor can get really tough. Especially during these times of economic downturn, you get out of bed with the feeling that things might get really bad.
About a week ago, I had a very comprehensive conversation with Santiago, one of my teammates. We were discussing something that has been making our heads spin: Crisis management. We were not just talking about economic downturn, but about crisis in a broad sense. I mean, there is a whole range of different types of crises, from the global markets crisis to a simple but very annoying company leadership crisis. Continue reading “Make it 88 miles per hour”
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