The dream accomplishment is not a promotion. Sorry. I know LinkedIn wants you crying in front of a cake with the company logo… so that you produce lots of likes. “After 17 years, I am humbled to announce…” Lovely. Very touching. Very corporate. Very LinkedIn… But no. The real dream is a WhatsApp message. “Can you jump on a call? We have a problem.” That’s it. No fireworks. No orchestra. No posts in social media with 46 hashtags. Just one message. Because someone, somewhere, in a project that...
2 days ago • 1 min read
Alicante, Spain, around 2007. A young engineer was working on a large transport project… a toll road. Not the boss. Not even a “deputy”. Not even close. His job was mostly coordination. Trackers. Minutes. Interfaces. The glamorous stuff nobody respects until it goes wrong. One week, there was a problem with a utility diversion. Nothing spectacular. No collapse. No newspaper headline. Just one of those boring issues that can quietly destroy a programme… and with that… a project… and some...
3 days ago • 1 min read
If you remain in the same position, your progression is linear. At best. You accumulate “years” of experience. But sometimes that only means exactly that. Years. Big jumps only come with exposure. A new role. A bigger room. A heavier decision. You won’t evolve at the same pace as project manager, project director, COO, or CEO. Impossible. Exposure changes you. Responsibility changes you. Putting your ass on the line to be kicked changes you. That is what sets you apart. That is what makes you...
4 days ago • 1 min read
Two brothers. An old van. Five years travelling across the East Coast of the US. Many have dreamed about it… but these guys had the huevos… or guts. They survived selling T-shirts at fairs. College dorms. Random events. Sleeping in the van. Eating peanut butter. Smelling probably like a dead raccoon wrapped in ambition. That was Bert and John Jacobs. The founders of Life is Good. In 1994, after a particularly bad trip, they had $78 left. Not $78,000. $78. Most people at that point would have...
5 days ago • 1 min read
This is a horror story that repeats itself. A PPP contract. Thousands of pages. Schedules. KPIs. Payment mechanisms. Relief events. Change mechanisms. Handback requirements. All written by people who probably looked boring. Very boring. Maybe too boring. And then someone arrives. A new advisor. A new client-side team. A new CEO. A new politician. A new “transformation office”. And they say: “We don’t understand why this clause is here.” Or worse. “This looks too generous to the private...
6 days ago • 2 min read
Results, not effort, is the name of the game. You are rewarded in life by the results you produce. Not the effort and time you put in. Of course, you need to work hard. Of course, you need to become brilliant at what you do. But none of that matters if it doesn’t translate to tangible, measurable, and rare results. I can’t promise you to become the CEO of your company. That’s up to you. Your effort and how you play your cards. But once that you click below and check a few lessons, I guarantee...
7 days ago • 1 min read
How much power have you really been delegated? Not your title. Not your business card. Not your “I’ll check internally and come back to you.” Your real power. Can you sign? Can you approve? Can you move the deal forward? Or are you just another expensive messenger with a nice email signature? Look. I’ve seen companies with the best people you can imagine. Smart people. Experienced people. People who could solve problems in five minutes if someone simply gave them the authority to do it. But...
8 days ago • 1 min read
You’re in your office. Your laptop keeps vomiting notifications. Emails. Slack. Teams. Calendar alerts. Random pop-ups from tools you didn’t even remember installing. If it’s not yours, it’s your colleague’s. Someone’s phone vibrates on the desk. Someone else receives a message. Another person walks by and asks, “quick question?” Voilà , as it’s said in French.. The most expensive lie in corporate life. Your inbox keeps screaming. Your social media feed keeps flirting with your attention. A...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Let me challenge you today. Being busy isn’t how you become world-class. It’s normally about quality. How Dan Sullivan used to say: “How you do anything is how you do everything. “ Sot, it is about quality, more than quantity. Quality in all things. The nutrition and food in your body. The quality of your sleep and environment. The quality of your recovery. The quality of your network. The quality of your training and mentors. So, let’s do a pause today this Sunday, and reflect about how to...
10 days ago • 1 min read