Given the recent turmoil at Uber and with all the negative ink being written about its sky-high valuation, people have been doom and gloom about the company’s future (ie: HBR on need to shut Uber) The difficulty to turn a profit combined with the management issues of the last few months has made Uber a classicContinueContinue reading “A start-up’s valuation life cycle”
Tag Archives: Management
CEO Shifting
The role of the CEO is obviously key to the start, development and growth of an idea into a company. CEOs of start-ups have a necessity to continuously shift in parallel to the organisation they are running. But it is not just important for themselves to realise the need to shift and adapt to changingContinueContinue reading “CEO Shifting”
Behavioural Biases
After reading ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kanheman, a summary is most definitely needed to capture all the biases discussed throughout the book. My favourites: anchoring, confirmation and regret aversion.
Feedback Sandwich
During the summer camps that we organise in Cambodia, there has always been this one recurrent idea in all of our Workshops with the Project Managers: the Feedback Sandwich. The point of the Feedback Sandwich was to create a constructive, thought-provoking and all-around positive feedback mechanism for our Camp cousellors. Managing over 200 of themContinueContinue reading “Feedback Sandwich”
Leadership Styles
When looking at decision-making, not only is it crucial to ask oneself the right questions going into the decision, it is also important to remember that depending on your team members and your own skillset, the manager has to decide on what leadership style to use. The manager has to take into account her/his ownContinueContinue reading “Leadership Styles”
Decision Decision Decision
Making tough decisions is always difficult and requires a fair bit of calm, composure and sell-thought for a manager to be able to dissect the steps prior to the decision. If time allows, there are ways to ensure that oneself is at best prepared to make decision. The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model is one of them. 1.ContinueContinue reading “Decision Decision Decision”
Questions and Answers
HBR on questioning:
Meeting the World
In the Summer Camps, we had a very much diverse team of people: Spanish, French, English, German, American etc etc and of all ages. This, combined with the different levels of English fluency made our team meetings all the more challenging. We had to ensure that all team members had the opportunity to be heardContinueContinue reading “Meeting the World”
Smarter employees?
HBR’s take on the issue:
Change by Design
A great book deserving a thorough read is Change by Design by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO. Below I link to an online summary and have pasted the contents here for simplicity: ‘The leader of one of the most successful design companies, Brown shares what he has learned about how to make “change by design.”ContinueContinue reading “Change by Design”
Pablo F. Alonso Caprile 