Sharing reflections on leadership and professional growth with sales managers and other friends
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Personal development
Javier Márquez

How can I help you?

Some people do things, others help. Both contributions are needed to keep a system running, and also to change it. Where do you fit in?

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Economy and Society
Javier Márquez

Context and energy for the new time

Mark Zuckerberg says that companies need more masculine energy. Apparently we have gone too far adopting effeminate values such as diversity, inclusion, equality an work-life

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En confianza
Leadership
Javier Márquez

A matter of trust

I start writing a draft of this article sitting in an aeroplane. As I entered through the front door I had a look into the

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¿Conciencia o lavado de imagen?
Strategy
Javier Márquez

Business with a conscience?

A friend of mine who is very right-wing tells me that the only mission of a company is to generate profits for investors. He thinks trade unions and environmentalists are obstacles that should be minimised. Another friend, who is very left-wing, says that the only mission of a company is to generate profits for investors, and that is why businessmen are enemies.

And Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said in 1970 that the only mission of a company is to generate profits.

But…

What if generating profits for investors were not the only mission of a company?

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Strategy
Javier Márquez

The map and the backpack

How to use a SWOT effectively in the strategic planning process. Recognize the most common mistakes and discover some keys to success.

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Sales

The art of selling

Thousands of years ago a primitive clan hunted a mammoth larger than they could eat before it rotted down, so they decided to propose to

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Sales management

What inside sales taught us

How B2B salesforces are shifting in a digital world  One day back in March 2020, company cars around the world stayed parked. 4 billion people

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Economy and Society

Context and energy for the new time

Mark Zuckerberg says that companies need more masculine energy. Apparently we have gone too far adopting effeminate values such as diversity, inclusion, equality an work-life

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En confianza
Leadership

A matter of trust

I start writing a draft of this article sitting in an aeroplane. As I entered through the front door I had a look into the

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Leadership

Goodbye myths

Imagine you receive an email from the new superstar leader of your company. They have a plan for you. It is about working “extremely hard”

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Leadership

More Ted, less Logan

Series fans are enjoying these days. Two of the best and most awarded in recent years return with new seasons: Succession (HBO) and Ted Lasso

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Economy and Society

Context and energy for the new time

Mark Zuckerberg says that companies need more masculine energy. Apparently we have gone too far adopting effeminate values such as diversity, inclusion, equality an work-life

Read More »
¿Conciencia o lavado de imagen?
Strategy

Business with a conscience?

A friend of mine who is very right-wing tells me that the only mission of a company is to generate profits for investors. He thinks trade unions and environmentalists are obstacles that should be minimised. Another friend, who is very left-wing, says that the only mission of a company is to generate profits for investors, and that is why businessmen are enemies.

And Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said in 1970 that the only mission of a company is to generate profits.

But…

What if generating profits for investors were not the only mission of a company?

Read More »
Strategy

The map and the backpack

How to use a SWOT effectively in the strategic planning process. Recognize the most common mistakes and discover some keys to success.

Read More »
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