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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Jul 24, 20234 min
Management, The Art
by Ulises Pabon The purpose of science is to create knowledge. The word "science" has its etymological roots in Latin and Old French. It...
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May 30, 20229 min
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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Apr 7, 20223 min
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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Dec 31, 20213 min
Seeing Organizations Through a Different Lens
by Ulises Pabón photo by Erol Ahmed [ https://unsplash.com/@erol / https://erol.is/ ] No one is indispensable. I hear this frequently...
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Aug 15, 20214 min
Managerial Courage and the Dark Side of the Force
by Ulises Pabon I was recently talking with a CEO about his executive team. He used the term “managerial courage” to describe one of his...
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May 21, 20213 min
Walking Down Memory Lane to See the Future
By Ulises Pabón This is the book that ignited my interest in electronics. I can't remember how old I was when I first laid my hands on...
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May 17, 20213 min
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 2, 20213 min
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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Dec 22, 20204 min
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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Nov 6, 20203 min
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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Jul 5, 20201 min
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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Jun 13, 20203 min
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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May 24, 20204 min
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 20, 20203 min
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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Dec 8, 20194 min
Is Sustainability On Your Agenda?
by Ulises Pabon For years, business owners and managers viewed delivering high quality products and service as a costly proposition. In...
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Nov 12, 20195 min
Managing Human Error
by Ramon Rivera In organizations, errors have double implications. On the one hand, there is no doubt that errors can contribute to grave...
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Aug 13, 20194 min
PDT!
by Ulises Pabon As soon as he stepped out of the cab, Bernard noticed it had started to get cold. It had stopped raining, but he could...
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Jul 16, 20194 min
Best Practices in Mergers and Acquisitions
by Ramon Rivera Mergers and acquisitions are today a common practice as companies try to improve their competitive position in a global...
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Apr 16, 20193 min
Measure Twice, Cut Once
by Ulises Pabon Way back, before the internet days, my brother decided to take a locksmith course through mail. He received all the...
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