Tips for creative success from Pixar

Presentation Zen:Lessons to be learned from Pixar:Depth of knwledge, necessary but insufficient.Importance of breadth and communication and collaboration skillsCommunication skills are under appreciated "soft-skill" areas, and collaboration is rarely mentioned at all.Perhaps today the notion of collaboration is being taught more in schools. Collaboration is hard because it requires mastery, breadth, empathy, and solid communication [...]

2010-12-29T19:47:00+01:00December 29th, 2010|educación, eficiencia, gestión, ideas|

El error de gestionar por objetivos

¿Cómo se establece un objetivo? ¿Qué intenta conseguir un objetivo?¿Cómo se mide la consecución del mismo? Las respuestas a estas preguntas son muy interesantes a la hora de entender porqué todos los objetivos son aleatorios y, en todo caso, no son mas que un deseo expresado en cifras basados en lo que hemos hecho hasta [...]

Otra empresa es posible…

Patagonia:“Queríamos que cuando las olas subieran y la nieve descendiera, los empleados estuvieran donde deben estar: afuera”“Como yo nunca había querido ser empresario, ahora necesitaba unas cuantas razones para serlo. Había una cosa que no quería cambiar, incluso aunque nos pusiéramos serios: el trabajo debía ser algo de lo que poder disfrutar a diario. Todos [...]

13 pequeñas cosas para simplificar tu jornada

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu13 small things to simplify your workday:1 Start early2 Limit your hours3 Make a short list4 Batch distractions5 Write shorter emails6 Limit meetings7 Automate8 Eliminate [...]

2010-12-19T01:11:00+01:00December 19th, 2010|eficiencia, gestión, la vida misma|

Just do it … & feel it

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” ~Zen proverb"In the chaos of the modern world, there is a beauty in simply doing.We’re buffeted wildly by whatever emails, conversations, news, events, demands, that are going on around us. Our minds become a constant deluge of thoughts dwelling in the past, worries [...]

2010-12-19T00:36:00+01:00December 19th, 2010|eficiencia, filosofía, gestión|

Beneficios = Libertad

37signals runs entirely without debt.We actually trust our employees.We speak our minds — even when it’s inconvenient, controversial, or risking offense to some of our customers or partners.Now, all this is technically possible without the freedom of profitability, but it certainly wouldn’t be natural or common.(37signals' svn blog)

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