Juana Rodriguez

Real-life lessons about failure, the key to grow and innovate!

During an interview in the past, in a beautiful Paris evening, I was going on and on about the peaks of my success during my career. The interviewer then threw me off with a surprising question “So, tell me about your failures?” For a moment, my impulsive brain wanted to answer that I have never had a failure but then the truth came out in the form of the evident “ any success story was preceded by a series of failures”. The astonishment on his face was greater than the fresh evening air as he expected another answer, maybe! This

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6 heart-wrenching lessons from companies that failed to handle disruption

Falling off the perch is not a nice feeling as an individual or a company. However, falling is a trait of warriors and rising after a fall is a hobby for champions. For this to happen, an individual or a company needs to be sitting right up to the pile of all other competitors for a number of years to lose track and fall so viciously, that the fall usually ends up in a bankruptcy file. For a new business, there can be a number of reasons causing disruptions, however, a seasoned business is not easily brought to the ground. Let’s

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3 Things Greg”the techo” teach us about intrapreneurship

Greg is an engineer, native of Singapore. He has been working abroad for the last 15 years which gave him an international perspective and open mindset. Greg has been part of the corporate incubator team within his well-known tech company. During the last 5 years, he has been providing his technical expertise to support more than 10 innovation projects. Greg is a true innovator, known within his team as “the techo”. During our talk, he shared openly his experiences and learnings of how he evolved from a pure technical innovator towards seeing technology as a means to answer customer needs. The

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Why Do You Need To Hone Your Critical Thinking Skills As Intrapreneur?

Are you wondering why you need to hone your critical thinking skills as an intrapreneur? In this blog, we are going to discuss the importance of sharpening critical thinking skills and benefits. Josh’s Story reminded us of the importance of honing critical thinking skills and so my 5 years old son did. We were reading his goodnight story that happens to have an episode of a knight fighting with some terrible monster. Of course, the knight won the battle. My son asked me: Mom, and the monster died? Without thinking twice I answered, “no my dear, he will recover.” He

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Five Compelling Reasons Why Your Company Should Consider Intrapreneurship Seriously

Almost 88% of the companies that composed the Fortuna 500 are no longer listed, some were acquired or no longer significant. According to Professor Richard Foster from Yale University,  the average lifespan of a company has decreased by more than 50 years in the last century. That is from 67 years in the 1920s to just 15 years today. If we check the global brand ranking, that lists the companies we perceive as being the ‘most’ innovative, on the top of the list we find “Apple, Google, and Amazon”, and those that fail to innovate eventually will exit the list

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6 lessons learned from our coffee talk with Josh “serial intrapreneur”​ and all about his passion and persistence

Today’s blog post is going to be all about Josh, ‘a Geek’. Josh is an accomplished intrapreneur who has launched so many projects. One of his first success is integrated into a business unit and represents more than €30 Million in revenue per year. At first, it wasn’t easy, but Josh persisted. In this blog, you will learn about the techniques Josh has used to innovate projects and what has made him a successful intrapreneur.

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The Inner side of Intrapreneurship Series

I still remember that day 12 years ago, when the team was in that meeting room waiting for the announcement “the project will stop here”. We all had some mixed feelings of nostalgia and frustration, but at the same time, we were proud of our achievements. In 3 years, we had developed a new offer from scratch, we built a disruptive model of services within Hardware Company. We succeeded in creating a network of distributors which enabled us to launch and sold the product in 4 countries and at the end, we had more than 100K subscribers and overall we

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