The power of small
A couple of weeks ago, in one of my sessions, the GM of a tech company told me that her absolute priority was to keep her team to no more than 30 people in order to maintain simplicity at all levels and to leverage the full potential of her people to contribute.
Recommendation of the month
The new new product development game. Hirotaka Takeuchi & Ikujiro Nonaka. This paper, originally published in 1986 and that HBR offers in its digital version has an incredible significance, since in it Takeuchi and Nonaka laid the foundations of Scrum
Bamboo vs Steel
During these days, I am recalling the first time I visited Hong Kong. It was the year 2000 and one of the things I found more fascinating about that star-striking city where skyscrapers had their own daily light show at 8pm was, precisely, that skyscrapers
Teams: Castellers de Viladecans
There is a universal magic in the art of building human towers, the so-called castells. Even though this tradition was born in the eighteenth century in Camp de Tarragona, southern Catalonia,its key elements are so related to transversal core values
7 minutes with Ezequiel Sánchez
Ezequiel and I worked for the same company (but not in the same city) for many years but, believe it or not, we never met in person. It has been precisely in our entrepreneurial life that we have coincided in several projects.He is one of the few CEOs able to evolve beyond a
The book of the month
Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy by Brian J. Robertson Could you imagine people who live in a city having to ask for authorisation to sit on a bench, to cross a street or to go into a shop?
Agile killed the hierarchy star
If the founders of the Toyota Production System (TPS) have been told that the practical, logical fundamentals of their work model would have led to a concept which would become an aspirational mantra for companies, several decades after its creation,
