Ines Garcia Biography & Quotes

“As Product Owner trust your team, they solve much harder things every day.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Trust Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

Author:Ines Garcia

“Let’s not neglect the emotional aspect when managing the cognitive one.”

Happiness Work Emotional Sustainability

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“My theory is that more often than not, we are guilty of being oblivious of feelings.”

Feelings Happiness Work Emotional

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“Employee Experience (EX) is still not embedded into the majority of daily operations. If we correlate EX to User Experience (UX) or Customer Experience (CX) there is much of the holistic picture missing.”

Happiness Work Business Sustainability Employees

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“Improving employee happiness raises sales by 37%, productivity by 31% and accuracy of task completion by 19%.”

Happiness Work Productivity Sustainability Employees

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“Companies with a culture of employee recognition, where employees feel that their contributions matter, perform better and have less employee turnover than those that don’t.”

Happiness Work Business Recognition Sustainability Employees

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“Think about management to support rather than dictate. Be there to serve, to unblock obstacles, not to tell people what to do and how to do it.”

Work Management Sustainability Employees

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“The fundamental attribution error, where we tend to read others’ actions on a negative incline which we directly relate to their character and their personality.”

Work Business Employment Coaching

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“Being part of something meaningful opens up possibilities. We pursue contributions greater than ourselves.”

Inspirational Purpose Work Business

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“We must move our operating systems away from directing the work of others by doing and controlling. Instead, we must move towards enabling; liberating creativity and holding ourselves accountable to the results we have committed to—not we have had imposed upon us.”

Work Business Management Sustainability

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“You are measured on the value that you deliver, not on what’s been done.”

Business Value Sustainability

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“On the other side of the coin, someone once said that stress makes people stupid.”

Business Stress

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“Companies in the top quartile for diverse leadership teams outperformed less diverse peers on profitability.”

Business Diversity Sustainability

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“The fruit of diversity is collective creativity, reaching new highs, an enriched perspective and a boost of entrepreneurial energy.”

Business Creativity Diversity Innovation Entrepreneurship Sustainability

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“Have a simple, transparent, equal and fair system of opportunities.”

Business Diversity Equality Sustainability Fairness

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“Intrinsically we humans want to be happy, and happiness derives from having purpose, pursuit towards interesting and challenging ‘something’ that is greater than oneself.”

Inspirational Ideas Happiness Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

Book:Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

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“Different ideas are just that, another outlook to the same situation. And it all starts with oneself. Getting DEtached from being ATtached to one’s own ideas.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

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“Welcome change whilst there is return or a strong hypothesis of higher return than not doing so, that you can test on a small ring fenced effort so that you can faster validate or revoke your hypothesis.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Test Experiment

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“Changes are not like for like, it already has an extra weight for the context switch & let’s not forget about the time already invested in the initial thought path that will no longer be valid.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Estimates

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“To whomever is expressing that resistance do please explain briefly the intention of the benefits from the exercise, then add: “are you willing to give it a try?”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Resistence

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“We need to also make decisions in smaller batches, so that can be faster & economically viable.What I see way too often: teams can go fast, real fast! But if the rest of the organisation doesn’t keep up, it defeats the object.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

Author:Ines Garcia

“Having a path for the product is good, building that path in line of the vision is key, doing it together ‘makes or breaks it’, tuning and adjusting it as we go and learning from it is what wins in an ever changing environment.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Adapt Validate

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“Documentation is not a step on a linear timeline, and certainly not the one at the end. One could argue documentation is a byproduct.”

Inspirational Ideas Business Team Diversity Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Documentation Validate

Author:Ines Garcia

“Our economic world is a human invention, with the intention to organize ourselves in big numbers. How can we expect it to grow endlessly, when in fact the Earth is finite?”

Growth Business Sustainability

Book:Sustainable Happy Profit

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“Thinking of small tiny improvements would be exhausting if not impossible from the leadership team. Hence it has to happen at micro level, at each team level to control their own product & their own destiny. They are the closest, they know more about it.”

Inspirational Business Teamwork Collaborate

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“Markets change, visions change, technologies change, teams change, settings change, relationships change… with an ever changing environment it will be naive to think that you can draw the future with a straight line.”

Inspirational Business Team Teamwork Predictions Systems Thinking Forecast Collaborate Estimate

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“Having regular check-ins to align direction is super powerful, the ability to tune and adjust reduces waste and deviation and realignment.”

Inspirational Business Teamwork Predictions Systems Thinking Teams Forecast Collaborate Estimate

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“Systems thinking helps us to understand the relationship between the structure and the behaviour.”

Business Sustainability Systems Thinking

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“Mapping this architecture out as an image, as we covered, is a great way to shed new light on the connections, and better understand how your own systems operate.”

Business Sustainability Systems Thinking

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“To be able to co-create in your organisation, you need to connect information and relationships, both to be driven by transparency and fairness, focus on learning and what is achieved—rather than just what it’s been done.”

Inspirational Business Sustainability Systems Thinking

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“Being a sustainable, happy and profitable organisation goes beyond checklists and execution of responsibility. It’s a deep partnership of the whole, across your value chain, employees, customers and community.”

Business Sustainability Systems Thinking

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“Groups, teams and organisations are operating systems. Individuals don't exist as disconnected modules from others, from situations, from contexts... Build up perspective no only in yourself and your now, specially also to connections to others.”

Inspirational Business Systems Thinking

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“So instead of forcing top-down organisational charts, which is an outdated archaic legacy tool from the 1800’s and hasn't evolved, embrace organic growth with inter-related responsible teams that are autonomous and self-organised teams.”

Inspirational Business Team Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

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“Switch to proving ourselves wrong. We don’t do this enough, it’s like developing only happy paths, charged with biases and own agendas and we know where that leads. That’s why we write negative tests, do the same with your product bets”

Inspirational Business Team Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking Test Experiment

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“So if you are to measure something, measure what is fostering an environment of bringing that value faster in a safer and happier environment.”

Inspirational Business Team Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

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“Help yourself with your workspace set up, reduction of notifications, block sections to achieve specific goals, reduce distractions and allow yourself to get into deep flow.”

Inspirational Business Focus Team Flow Teamwork Collaboration Systems Thinking

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“Optimizing for figures without context leads to trouble.”

Inspirational Business Sustainability Metrics

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“To become more aware of this behavioral tendency, we need to observe and acknowledge how sustainable performance is rewarded; find out what are the consistency of practices and how real is the dimension of organizational values against its daily operations?”

Happiness Business Behavior Sustainability Employees Metrics

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“One of the key elements of circular economy thinking is designing-out waste, including and especially from the product inception phase.”

Business Waste Sustainability Circular Economy

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“GHG emissions are not the only issue we face, this is (simply) a standardised, worldwide unit of measurement for understanding negative environmental impacts. You can invest your efforts into achieving several Sustainable Development Goals, rather than exclusively GHG emissions.”

Business Sustainability Greenhouse Gases

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“The aim is to create a world where everyone can live well within its natural limits, that being highly beneficial for your organisation and yes also for the planet.”

Business Sustainability In Economics

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