Camilo Oliveira

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A style of leadership for me

When you share an unfinished product, you give people a chance to engage with you, that is shared enrollment.

– Prasad Narravula

On this day I learned a lesson on altMBA about a style of leadership that worked really well for me.

We were discussing about which idea to pick between two options and while the subject was common, everyone had different definitions and details in their minds.

When I shared the unfinished/half baked work I was doing, everyone could look at one thing and develop from there.

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Soft skills are real

The real (or soft) skills feel as concrete as the hard skills.

You can sense how you are changing because of them, the same way you can see clearly how you have made progress on that design, exercising, or driving skill.

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Adding value by asking questions

There are no consequences here for speaking up, the consequence would be staying quiet and NOT speaking up, not stepping up even if you believe you are not qualified.

I have been telling myself that I would be doing my team a disservice if I did not share my opinions or ask ‘stupid questions’.

I know I am adding value to my team when they explain their thinking.

Teaching is a great way to learn.

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Missing action

In the midst of some anxiety and many thoughts, there is a lack of action to put the planned ideas and ramblings into motion.

Which action is missing?

Michael Jordan - Winning has a price

Winning has a price, and leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn’t want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn’t want to be challenged.

And I earned that right because teammates came after me. They didn’t endure all the things that I endured.

Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game, and I wasn’t going to take anything less. Now if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. …you ask all my teammates, “The one thing about Michael Jordan, he never asked me to do something that he didn’t fucking do.”

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Now you feel it

When you were younger you didn’t know, but now you are an adult and you know because you can feel it.

Self image and the mirror

Not design related:

Isn’t weird how our confidence is often tied with the image we see on the mirror? Who teached us to be like this?

A lovely thought from Daniely Soares, who happens to be my gf.

Miguel Ángel Ortiz - Football is being sold

Eduardo Galeano se lamentaba de la venta del fútbol, «en cuerpo, alma y ropa», a las pantallas chinas.

Y añadía: «Es más importante la publicidad en el pecho que el número en la espalda».

En los 70, apareció en la camiseta del Eintracht-Braunsckweig y, desde entonces, las marcas se han apoderado de todo, incluso de los nombre de los estadios. Han comprado el fútbol, transformándolo en un deporte con un 2% de ganadores y un 98% de perdedores. Ganadores que, curiosamente, defraudan fuera del campo.

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James Altucher - Dig far enough to find love

Every single one of us, without a single exception, has gone through a period of enormous stress and sadness in our lives. This is the knife that shapes our futures. Without understanding these moments, we miss the entire picture, we miss the subtleties of the work of art that each one of us uniquely is.

An archaeological dig can take years. So can a friendship. So can a love. So can a business or a work of art. The secret origins of the people all around you are like these archaeological digs.

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