by Guillermo Villar | Feb 25, 2015 | Blog
People think of starting businesses for all sorts of reasons. You might think it represents the freedom to work only the hours you want. Or the possibility of unlimited earning potential. Or you might have a vision of “working for yourself” and “being your own boss”,...
by Guillermo Villar | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
In business, anchoring is a form of bias. It represents something you understand to be true, but you’re not quite sure why or how you got to that understanding. Usually it involves assigning some sort of value. In business it’s usually a monetary value, but in...
by Guillermo Villar | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog
Whether you’re in business for yourself, or working for someone else, there’s no shortage of ways to feel stuck. Maybe you’re spinning your wheels on that process improvement project that your manager recommended you take on to increase your “visibility” during...
by Guillermo Villar | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog
Do you ever feel like you can’t make a decision because you don’t have all the information, or 100% certainty that you’ll get the outcome you’re hoping for? If you could only have more time, collect more data, get another opinion… You...
by Guillermo Villar | Jan 14, 2015 | Blog
Business is about making the right decisions that will make you money. And most successful business people focus on facts and data to make decisions. If you’re managing a big public corporation, you look at your stock price. If you’re managing a project, you look at...
by Guillermo Villar | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with mixed media artist Jen Walls to talk about her transition into the world of art. Jen, a former banking industry executive who left Corporate America to raise a family, has found a way to access the joy of creating...