Artigos

14 de novembro, 2013

Vá vender!

Constantemente interajo com startups. Com algumas é uma interação eventual, durante uma conversa após uma palestra que dou ou em uma sessão de mentoria em algum […]
6 de maio, 2013

HR, participative management, democracy in the workplace and leadership

Readers of this blog already know Clóvis Bojikian, former Semco’s HR director. Back in 2009, when I met Clóvis, I wrote a long post about Clóvis […]
2 de janeiro, 2012

Using checklists to deal with the unexpected

I mentioned earlier about “The Checklist Manifesto” book. The post was originally written in Portuguese but you can find a Google translation here. In this post […]
5 de outubro, 2011

What type of entrepreneur are you?

Some time ago Rafael Rosa (@rafaelrosafu) presented me the concept of lifestyle startup in opposition to the growth startup everybody knows. Growth startups vs lifestyle startups […]
1 de setembro, 2011

Pick your battles

There’s a Seth Godin’s post that I always use as a reference: Gravity is a constraint. If you’re a designing an airplane, it would be a […]
28 de agosto, 2011

Management 3.0

I mentioned earlier that one of the sources I’ve been reading and enjoying is Jurgen Appelo’s posts about agile management. I’ve been reading his posts for […]
20 de julho, 2011

Try AND instead of OR

I recently read the post “And” Leadership written by Jim Highsmith that caught my attention on using AND instead of OR: One of the traits I […]
19 de junho, 2011

Why there are so few women in programming and why this matters

Sometime ago I was talking to some friends from ThoughtWorks when one of them asked me why there are so few women in the IT industry? […]
31 de maio, 2011

Do you work to earn money?

Do you work to earn money? Or do you work to solve someone’s problem and earning money is just a consequence of the good work you […]