Author: Joan Carbonell

How much time can be spent on a diagnosis? How much effort should be put into creating a budget that you don’t know if it will be completed? A few weeks ago, I had a telephone conversation with my mechanic like this: “Listen. The car is leaking oil. There’s a puddle of oil in the…

“And how is the chain of restaurants and cafés? “Well… recovering”. So began my conversation with Helmut, whom I had never met before. We were sharing a table at a forum and had just introduced ourselves. The pandemic is a very interesting topic for business discussions these days. And it is clear that the pandemic…

I have to admit it. I don’t normally read terms and conditions. Usually meaning practically never. Maybe I’m a weirdo. I doubt it. Maybe the only ones I’ve read are those of my own websites or those of some of my clients. And I guess I’m the only one who has read them. But they…

She loves me, she doesn’t love me, she loves me, she loves me, she doesn’t love me, … Have you ever found yourself with that idea that is in people’s minds and, no matter how much you explain that it’s not the moment, it appears and appears and appears and appears continuously? It’s not the…

One of the things I miss most about working in a corporate environment is being accompanied by a team of professional experts in their respective areas. Working as a freelance consultant you often collaborate with managers of small companies or entrepreneurs, experts in their area of business, but who need help, in my case, in…

A few days ago, my wife, who is a teacher, was telling me about a situation that had caught her attention. She was explaining to vocational training students an internship in which they must prepare their professional project. What they see themselves working on in a few years’ time. In order to motivate them, he…

It is one of the most typical reasons why a venture fails: disagreements between partners. I’ve seen it soooo many times. At the beginning everyone is perfectly aligned.Excitement comes first.But with time, working side by side, accumulated successes and failures, disagreements arise.One partner has one vision for the project while the other has another.One believes…