A Colombian Entrepreneurial Thought

Execute, what an interesting word! It means to put a plan, order, or course of action into effect. It is absolutely an easy word to look for using the Google search box, but according to the reading "A message to Garcia", the ability to execute the rarest Skill of All. This was the first time that I read that description. When I read this text I felt inspired to try this with the team I manage at my work. Results were immediately evident, "how do you want me exactly to do it?", "What is the best time to do this?", "Once I am done with that, what do you want me to do?". Believe it or not, those were some of the "questions" I got after delegating a specific task. I just laughed internally. That is a natural behavior in most of us. Talking about leadership let me share what the article says about making a difference, a characteristic of a natural leader, it says, "Woody Allen said that 90% of life is “just showing up.” If so, the ...

This week has been very challenging at my work. We have been receiving constant visits from our clients and in the efforts to make sure everything goes perfect for them, we have missed certain details that we did not perceive at the right moment. These issues have been the reason for having different meetings in order to identify the root cause of the problem. I am an internal and certified quality auditor and one of the things you learn in this path is precisely how to find the root cause of a problem. There are different strategies to analyze a problem and get to its root cause. I have personally used one that is called the Ishikawa or Fishbone Diagram, this method, based on Wikipedia's definition, "helps to identify potential factors causing an overall effect. Each cause or reason for imperfection is a source of variation. Causes are usually grouped into major categories to identify and classify these sources of variation." I have seen results by using it but a much ...

This week I was able to learn different things for my path to success. While reading some of the chapters from George Leonard's book, "Mastery", I was able to realize about the several stages where you can be during you mastery path. The book describes in a very interesting way what Mastery is and why we sometimes choose the easiest way instead of the long path that brings happiness and better results in our lives. It also describes the opposition to the concept itself and how to overcome those philosophies. One of the concepts that I realized was part of my life and that I never heard before was "Homeostasis". The way George Leonard defines the word homeostasis opens our understanding and especially because, if we want to master something, we need to move from our comfort zone to a more challenging and higher level of life. Leonard says "This condition of equilibrium, this resistance to change, is called homeostasis...[it] works to keep things as the...