5/31/2024

Think like a farmer and what you can learn from them!

What you can learn from farmers: Don't shout at the crops Don't blame the crop for not growing fast enough Don't uproot crops before they've had a chance to grow Choose the best plants for the soil Irrigate and fertilize Remove weeds Remember you will have good seasons and bad seasons - you can't control the weather only be prepared for it. Source: Unknown

- Pedro

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Win Workplace Negotiations by Chris Voss

Win Workplace Negotiations by Chris Voss Starting MasterClass Session with Chris Voss and expecting to consolidate my knowledge on how to deploy Voss’ negotiation philosophy on my d-2-d activity! Lessons in this online session include: • Become the Most Trusted Person at Work • Strengthen Your Workplace Influence • Create Epiphanies to Land the Deal • Getting to the Agreement • Negotiating Your Future • Inclusive Negotiation https://youtu.be/2gBboDdtTlc?si=tL2YLkJ0-PVCJF3p

- Pedro

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5/29/2024

Cómo hacer el currículum perfecto: aprende a destacar y diferenciarte al buscar empleo en la era digital

Artigo muy interesante d’ El País sobre como elaborar un #Curriculum Vitae”  (CV) y la importancia de tenerlo bien hecho para estar en los 2% que pasan el primero filtro. Algunos consejos rápidos: Evitar usar un CV idéntico/standard para todas las ofertas, donde hace pequeños cambios a la industria y empresa es fundamental Usar formato pdf (a “no-brainer”) pero nunca es demás repetirlo Debe incluir enlaces digitales relacionados con trabajo que tengas disponible Enviar siempre una carta de presentación (factor diferenciador) ya que será un factor diferenciador. ¡Buenas lecturas! https://elpais.com/economia/formacion/2023-02-16/existe-el-curriculum-perfecto-como-destacar-y-diferenciarse-al-buscar-empleo-en-la-era-digital.html

- Pedro

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What Competitive Intelligence and Pointillism (painting technique) have in common?

Was reading a book “The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence” and surprisingly enough was introduced to pointillism (painting technique), where Georges Seurat was one of its major exponents and the its painting “Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte” (see below YouTube). How this relates with Competitive Intelligence? Well in fact very straightforward, as developing Intelligence is like creating a pointillist painting as the goal is not to create a perfect picture but a picture that is representative of reality. Each point (or datapoint) gathered individually might be worthless but taken several ones in the right place and together it if you give yourself time to step back, you will be able to perceive a clear picture and with that make an informed business decision! A win-win, as I learnt about Intelligence and the same time art! Not a bad deal. https://youtu.be/AJr2T1ko3Is?si=zL5A4_3_UR_fX3J0

- Pedro

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5/24/2024

Starting -> Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds

Starting a new book! Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds →Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, Sven Smit “…Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears"—legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. "This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development."—Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. …” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37916972-strategy-beyond-the-hockey-stick

- Pedro

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Finalized - > The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence -> Book Rating - 3/5

Book Rating - 3/5 The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence: How to See Through & Stay Ahead of Business Disruptions, Distortions, Rumors & Smoke Screens → by Leonard M. Fuld Review to come shortly “…Explains how to anticipate future competitive threats in order to make prudent business decisions, with helpful advice on how to extract key bits of information from the Internet and other sources, how to verify the accuracy of data, and how to transform raw data into effective, market-based decisions. …” https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6499867478

- Pedro

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5/19/2024