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Personal blog with some posts about topics that interest me.
Tech, leadership, entrepreneurship and some random thoughts.
Some thought on how to do a right assessment of your context and adapt your leadership. Last week I participated on a round table where we were discussing about leadership in tech and, more specifically, aboy why it is important to have a "first team" mindset. I will not write today about the "first team" specifically but I would like to talk about how it is important to adapt our leadership focus to the context we are in.
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I love doers
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Can’t pull and push at the same time.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Thanks to a recommendation I recently finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. I found it quite insightful on many topics. The more I read the more I could feel identified with current and past situations on different teams I have been part of. I was aware of some of the insights that the book gives but, reading it from a structured and "third person" view gives a great perspective and deeper understandin
Service catalog - Automating documentation
In this post I try to explain how we have automated documentation management and our service catalog around a knowledge graph built on top of a graph database with some custom services.
Fake deadlines
Deadlines are not inherently bad. They are very needed and inevitable for a lot of things. I dont want to make this post become a rant about deadlines. I want to talk about the -fake deadlines- we put for the wrong reason and that are not helping our teams and neither delivering value to our users.
Team first
Recently I finished re-reading Trillion Dollar Coach. A key insight distilled in the book in many ways is the concept of Team First
Your inbox is not a todo list
In today hyper communicated world, we receive constant messages from different people through many different channels. In this post, Im focusing on professional communication.
Urgent vs important and goals context
Often, managing and prioritizing our tasks is not easy. Changing contexts, switching from firefighting mode (where we are dealing with whatever current crisis) and a more strategic mode where we are laying down the bricks for our longer-term objectives.
Digital transformation? No. Cultural transformation.
Lately, I have been increasingly struggling with the term Digital transformation. Its great for adding it to corporate presentations along with “agile” and other buzz words. But, I believe it fails to convey the depth of the needed change and over-simplifies the idea behind the term.
Challenges, welcome.
We are constantly faced to challenges. Some old and recurring, some new. Challenges are what keeps us motivated, engaged, sharp.
Beyond the crisis, remember.
We are living unprecedented times, not because the world had never suffered a pandemic before, but not THIS world. Hyper connected but highly selfish.
Graph databases. Beyond the hype
We are living unprecedented times, not because the world had never suffered a pandemic before, but not THIS world. Hyper connected but highly selfish.