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Only the Paranoid Survive II
by Ulises Pabon After a ten-month hiatus, four recent articles in the Wall Street Journal prompted me to sit down and write. The first...
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Oct 4, 20248 min read
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La Próxima Vuelta
por Ulises Pabón En el 1991, durante mi segundo viaje a Singapur, me topé con el libro “Singapore - The Next Lap”. El libro, publicado...
QBS Team
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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Oel Ngati Kameie
by Ulises Pabon Image Source: Avatar: The Way of Water | Avatar.com Oel Ngati Kameie. A simple assertion. It caught my attention when I...
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Feb 16, 20235 min read
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The To-Do List: We've Got It All Wrong!
by Ulises Pabon Take a look at your to-do list. If it looks anything like mine, it's probably packed with: Complete report on … Call...
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Nov 19, 20225 min read
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Virtual Work Has A Bandwidth Problem, But It's Not What You Think.
by Ulises Pabon We’ve all had our share of virtual meetings over low-bandwidth internet connections causing video freezing, voice...
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May 30, 20229 min read
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Uncertainty and the Status Quo
by Ulises Pabon photo by Katie Moum www.katiemoum.com || www.finaldraftstudios.com “Given today’s uncertainty, it makes no sense to look...
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Apr 7, 20223 min read
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Call for Papers!
by Ulises Pabón What do you really enjoy doing? What job would you craft if you had a choice? What strengths would you tap on and what...
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Oct 25, 20212 min read
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Mr. Manager, Tear Down This Suggestion Box!
by Ulises Pabon photo by Allesandro Bellone Ideas are like babies. They are extremely vulnerable at birth. Our brain doesn't spit out...
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May 17, 20213 min read
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Change, Opportunity, and Innovation
by Ulises Pabon COVID has had a devastating impact on human life and has made a significant dent in many businesses. We are starting to...
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May 2, 20213 min read
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
by Ulises Pabon I do not have the stomach to post the pictures here, but if you search for “Jim Jones November 18” and click on “images”...
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Jan 18, 20212 min read
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Disruption in the Making
by Ulises Pabon I remember, not too long ago, seeing a graph that showed the decline in sales of film cameras together with the increase...
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Dec 22, 20204 min read
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4th Generation Manufacturing
by Ulises Pabon I met Professor Steven Wheelright, co-author of Dynamic Manufacturing, while I worked at Intel, back in the ’90s. He was...
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Nov 6, 20203 min read
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Fast-Forward to the Future
by Ulises Pabon One of the pernicious side effects of COVID-19 is that it has us stuck in the present. You can’t create the future if...
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Jul 5, 20201 min read
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Bouncing Forward
by Ulises Pabón Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash In physics, resiliency is the term used to describe the ability of a substance or an...
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Jun 13, 20203 min read
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The Root of Racism, A Personal Reflection
by Ulises Pabón Racism is seated on a fundamental idea. A false and evil fundamental idea, but a fundamental idea nonetheless: the idea...
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May 31, 20201 min read
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Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, and COVID-19
by Ulises Pabon In 2016, Vijay Govindarajan (known as VG) published a framework for innovation in his book The 3 Box Solution inspired on...
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May 24, 20204 min read
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True Reinvention
by Ulises Pabon The easiest way to render a concept useless is to turn it into jargon. It ceases to mean anything. Without meaning, the...
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May 20, 20203 min read
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COVID-19 and TRIZ
by Ulises Pabon When you study, at a very high level of abstraction, the thousands of patents that have been awarded, you can identify...
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May 10, 20207 min read
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