When I started forming as a coach, one of the things that caught me the most was the question ‘what is the 2% of truth?’. That question always makes me stop and think: what is true about what you were saying? What if you were slightly right? What could be that? The effects of this …
We are just starting some days off in many countries (Easter holidays) or a period with less activity in others (Ramadan) and it is probably a good moment to talk about the benefits of enjoying that time by doing nothing and having fun in our productivity for the time we go back to work. In …
Many people say ‘There’s no learning in the comfort zone, and there’s no comfort in the learning zone’; at least I’ve heard it many times. It probably comes from the feeling that learning is difficult because it is a change (in behaviour or knowledge) and, therefore, an effort. To be honest, I don’t fully agree …
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care”. What do you choose? This is a quote I love from Hugh MacLeod, creative artist and founder of a company called Gapingvoid and aimed, in their words, “to make work more …
Decision fatigue: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.
On Sunday 26 I had to be at a polling station in Madrid. In the 17 hours I spent there, a multitude of things happened. It is worth to share both the story and the conclusions because they apply to our work. Each station is made up of three members and absolutely everything that has …
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