Articles and reflections on entrepreneurship, innovation and business leadership.
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Francisco Santolo
Recognize your value and potential. Learn to trust yourself, overcome external barriers, and use the right tools to leverage talent and achi...
Ideas don't generate profit. Ideas don't even generate revenue. People often mistake ideas as innovation and it's time we straighten t...
Market analysts, the press, and investors are waking up to the scandal I have been anticipating for the past 4 years. It happened in t...
For nearly a century, McKinsey & Company represented the pinnacle of applied strategic knowledge.
If you believe the solution is to "buy AI," you are falling into a dangerous trap. AI is not bought; it is integrated. Winners will not be d...
Let me start off by saying that I truly admire Google as a company, and certainly their initiatives in the entrepreneurial environment: Goog...
In this article I share three key concepts for starting up and doing business:
María Paula Russo
This was, for almost a year, the icon on the WhatsApp group we shared with Francisco Santolo for the management of Scalabl and its global ex...
Rachel García is a wonderful entrepreneur, with invaluable experience in her first project: Jumperr, whose story undoubtedly deserves an art...
Thinking about something innovative connects us directly to the world of ideas. The first step is understanding that innovation goes way bey...
Artificial intelligence (AI) bursts strongly and amplifies the consciousness of the era of disruption. Access to exponential technologi...
In an SME, the human element is immediate, visible, and hard to cushion. What in a large organization is filtered through structure and proc...
Astro AI Agent, Scalabl team
An open letter to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude: why standalone frameworks fall short and what I discovered by studying a complete business me...
One of the most powerful traits of Scalabl’s methodology is the ability to become a very receptive agent to the immense amount of stim...
Every year, thousands of people with talent, passion and experience fall by the wayside.
Last week, in a strategic design session, I asked our AI assistant for a market analysis.
The healthiest money for any company does not come from investors; it comes from customers. Whoever validates first and secures real custome...
We face a global environment characterized by increasingly shorter and less predictable cycles of disruption.
To undertake is to abandon what is known and take an unexplored path towards our dream, vision and purpose.
Using generative AI is not about asking questions and waiting for magical answers.
Companies (as we know them) suffer in the present and are not organizations adapted to the future.
The future is unpredictable and faces us with countless challenges. The traditional business mentality becomes obsolete and the methodologie...
How to build adaptive value generation systems in an environment of permanent disruption, exponential speed and decentralized competition.
The dream of ownership. Owning a home. A car. My generation grew up with the mindset of achieving security by accumulating tangible assets &...
Human beings are complex and wonderful beings and in many aspects we respond to an algorithmic nature. Our brain is a sophisticated machine ...
Novel Entrepreneurship and Innovation methodologies from the Tech and Startup world are leaping into Corporations, but they are still broadl...
How meaningful encounters with teachers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, together with a tenacious exercise in the art of networking, helped me ...
Between marble and mystique the epic of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) and what it leaves us learning.
The main mistake today? Treating artificial intelligence as an IT tool. Augmented intelligence (human collaborators empowered by AI + AI age...
The path to entrepreneurship does not have to be long. be a leap into the void. In fact, I recommend starting your entrepreneurial journey w...
Active listening, fundamental for strategy and innovation from senior management, does not emerge as one of the main attributes when definin...
The path to success as defined by top-notch authors radically diverges from the advice and behavior of Startup Gurus, that nowadays control ...
Today it is easy to find business ideas on the Internet:
Innovation, Transformation, and Global Impact: Individuals and Communities Empowered by Exponential Technologies are Redefining our Future.
My biggest dream in life is to try to contribute to creating a world where we no longer hurt each other.
How can you apply the Scalabl® Methodology to land your dream job? When we created the methodology in 2016, we had a very specific goal: to ...
In previous articles I have explored the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in understanding our behavior, anticipating our actions and si...
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, recently made an impact with a disruptive phrase: "SaaS, applications and software interfaces are dead."
I have spent two decades observing the same pattern: unstoppable companies, brilliant leaders, continuous growth. And a silent enemy that do...
Networking is not about collecting contacts: it is about building and activating social capital to make dreams possible—our own and th...
I used to work at a company where the building had a special door. This door, which separated the two main offices, had to be opened with a ...
I used to see things differently as a child and I was deeply misunderstood as a teenager, but somehow I remained consistent with myself, exp...
Co-creation and collaborative ecosystems are an integral part of the new exponential business culture.
The traditional view of entrepreneurship, often driven by venture capital, requires critical review to ensure it remains relevant and benefi...
Agility, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Customer Development, Open Innovation, Acceleration are today buzzwords that in many cases end up de...
By sharing my experience as a student at various top-tier universities, I seek to offer an alternative model to weigh the decision to invest...
Goldman Sachs and Barclays analysts have dubbed it the "AI Scare Trade": the market is not punishing technology, it is punishing the fragili...
The classic models for thinking and doing business focused on investing and acquiring assets, due to their high risk component, do not withs...
Are you currently supporting or complicating the growth of your company?
Exploring the future of human relationships and AI in an imaginary journey, highlighting the growing synergy between us and advanced technol...
For decades, writing a business plan was almost a mandatory ritual for anyone who wanted to start a business.
It is increasingly clear for entrepreneurs and business leaders the importance of designing value propositions that resonate with the true p...
Leaving a corporate job to enter the world of entrepreneurship can be a difficult, emotionally charged and risky decision.
At the next table, an entrepreneur is pitching to an investor. The monologue is endless. Nobody taught him the paragraph break, but he talks...
How to lead committed and effective teams and manage talent for organizational success, focusing on professional development and innovation.
Studies maintain that 70% of corporate teams do not understand their CEOs when they talk about strategy. The explanation is clear and e...
Because professional networking is not measured by quantity, but by the quality of the relationship. Having thousands of contacts can give y...
Business models are similar to a puzzle, a game that requires skill and patience to combine the pieces in the correct way.
Many talk about strategy. Very few think strategically. And almost no one exposes you to how it is formulated or happens in practice.
With this article, I celebrate above all the transformative power of work.
Announcing investment rounds with ridiculous Startup valuations and giving these startups a fancy and exciting name (let's call it a Unicorn...
For a society that privileges achievements and places them as the cause of all recognition, future and appreciation, we receive very little ...
We talk about sales: the non-negotiable engine that validates a business model, builds strategic relationships with customers and sustains t...
Adapt and anticipate the demands of the future has become a prevailing necessity for business success.
In times of crisis, it is common to feel trapped, challenged and often border on desperation. Emotions overwhelm us, the gaze of others take...
In 1440, Gutenberg invented the printing press.
In the synergy between technology and human talent, we find the path toward our next version.
The emergence of new technologies, from artificial intelligence to robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT), is redefining not only the job...
A strategy is not a list of correct choices.
In an ever-changing world, organizationsoriginally designed for efficiency, repetition, and scale rather than flexibilityface unprecedente...
Today's "experts" repeat press releases as commandments while multinationals stage the launch show. GPT-5 arrived with notorious instability...
What we learned in our university and years of practice is here. in check. Business theory has completely changed accompanying a c...
The famous economist Alfred Marshall coined an expression to explain the relationship and balance between different variables, which we reso...
Many companies fail not because of incompetence, but because of excellence. Clayton Christensen defined it in The Innovator's Dilemma: the p...
The era of disruption requires flexibility and adaptation to a constantly evolving world of work. In an environment where change is the only...
In the world of entrepreneurship, it is common to hear that success depends on raising risk capital or "burning" resources to grow quickly.
Do exponential technologies like AI, Robotics and Blockchain impact businesses unpredictably? Explore Moore's Law, the Gartner Curve, and th...
Our obsession with reaching self-imposed milestones or those demanded by others has the flip side of a very limited knowledge of what it mea...
Today it is essential to integrate Artificial Intelligence into the strategy of every company.
Companies demand their employees to become agile and innovative overnight without altering their course. Hiring a leading management consult...
Change is the only constant and rigid long-term plans have become obsolete.
Innovation and internal entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship)are crucial to keeping organizations competitive and relevant.
A few days ago I received a message "Fran, did you see it? MIT says using ChatGPT makes you dumber." I opened the article. Euronews indeed t...
Everything suggests that the impact of Artificial Intelligence will grow exponentially, unless that curve crashes into a wall of silicon, en...
In times of uncertainty, business leaders face the difficult task of making strategic decisions without losing direction.
I call it the era of Disruption. And I have been writing about it recurrently, because it forces us to rethink how we manage and position ou...
What if I told you that you don't need to be a systems engineer or have budgets of thousands of dollars to incorporate artificial intelligen...
A recent study by the Gallup company confirmed that that there is a "staggeringly high attrition rate" and a record number of vacancies in a...
Applying AI to be more productive is the tip of the iceberg.
What Distinguishes a Simple Idea from Transformative Innovation? At the heart of this question lies the transformative power of true innovat...
The paradox of transformation: When the most influential consulting firms block the change they profess.
Conceiving Scalabl’s global community of graduates as a horizontal network - with no hierarchies or preassigned roles, where each pers...
When we visualize technology's capabilities, the ROI paradox becomes evident.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exponential technologies have democratized access to capabilities that were previously reserved for a few.
Imagine a personal AI, a digital assistant that not only understands your preferences and habits, but can also predict your next actions.
It is now. We need to move. Don't stay static living the way we've always done.
The MIT Media Lab published the most comprehensive study to date on generative AI in organizations: only 5% of pilots generate measurable im...
It is essential today to leave limitations behind and challenge the business status quo. Imagine a scenario in which you can build a success...
We are witnessing the emergence of a new structure of the world.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a technical issue.
In times of artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence becomes even more fundamental.
The question in boardrooms is no longer whether to use AI, but how to lead its integration. Many companies seek a savior in the Chief AI Off...
In just 60 years, between 1789 and 1848, we coined the following terms:Nationality, scientist, economic crisis, sociology, journalism, capit...
I foresee a future of unlimited possibility in which the individual will be more powerful than ever, with his impact multiplied by the commu...
The concept of continuous learning may seem simple, but its actual application goes far beyond what is intuitive.
