Being able to balance the short-term and long-term views is key for a leader. When chaos reigns and complexity is unmanageable, balance between a short-term stability and a long-term viability is tricky. When the business is going well, focusing on the long-term view is pretty easy. We feel we don’t need to care a lot …
There are a few truths in life. In fact, as I tell many times to my students, the answer for almost every question is: it depends, meaning there’s almost anything to be considered black or white. But the fact that we all have 24 hours a day to invest, spend or waste is one of …
Tony Nadal, coach of Rafa Nadal for many years, said in multiple times: an excuse has never won a match. Keeping in mind that no matter how hard you worked in developing a capacity, a situation could be hard enough for you to not deliver at your highest point of contribution. And then, what happens? …
Saying ‘no’ is an art. At least is what I’ve been told many times. Well, I’d say that saying ‘no’ is more a matter of courage. How many times you finally say yes when you really want to say no? Even under pressure we should say no more often.
Decision fatigue: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.
Some time ago, in one of the trainings I attended, they told me a story. One of the teachers had spent a long time living on a boat. The expedition was for scientific purposes, and although they docked from time to time, they spent most of their time sailing. Life on a ship when you …
