Last week Jeff Bezos published his latest letter to Amazon shareholders as CEO of the company, in which he discussed these points: How much value you had added to consumers, sellers on your platform, AWS customers, partners, and shareholders in 2020. From now on, in addition to continuing to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company”, they …
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Both. But in these lines I focus on the latter. A lot more depends on us than we imagine. It is as if we were waiting for someone else to magically define for us, instead of us defining… or even better: us creating for that space we want to fill. I recently visited Northwestern University …
This book made one of the greatest appearances in 2018. It was as if the apostle were sharing his take on the Objectives & Key Results methodology, widely embraced today in businesses around the world. John Doerr, in fact, may be the main apostle of it. Having worked directly with Andy Grove, who created OKRs, he spread …
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Cuando se anunciaba que Mario Ledesma asumía como entrenadores de los Jaguares, pensé que nos habíamos equivocado una vez más, que era necesario que viniera alguien extranjero, nacido y criado en otro contexto más profesional, de mayor exigencia, con otra forma de trabajo. Sin darme cuenta, estaba yendo contra una convicción que ya tenía, pero …
Well, luckily I had the idea at a very early age that the safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the …
With the Admiralty’s yacht, the Enchantress, as his home and office, he mastered every detail of navy tactics and capabilities. He appeared to be everywhere at once, inquiring, badgering, learning.He was interested in everything from gunnery to the morale of his sailors. He was fascinated with aeroplanes and immediately understood their utility in warfare. He spent …
Consider Warren Buffett again. If you watched him with a time clock, you’d find that about half of his waking time is spent reading. Then a big chunk of the rest of his time is spent talking one-on-one, either on the telephone or personally, with highly gifted people whom he trusts and who trust him. Viewed …
By virtue of Diego Rodríguez’s blog, an former IDEO executive and now an Intuit one, I got to know the remarkable Alex Zanardi. On September 15, 2001, while running Indy Car in Germany, he had an accident worth his 2 legs and 3/4s of his blood. 2 years later, he was back competing in a specially adapted race car. In 2005 …
