jorge barba

Hello my friend, welcome to the Game-Changer! A blog about innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing. I’m your host Jorge Barba, an Innovation Insurgent. You’re here because you’re interested in being or becoming a Game-Changer in everything you do. Let’s do it!

I’m CEO of Netek and I’m also the President of the Baja California Innovation Cluster.

I also work with startups and corporations. Need help reinventing your innovation capability, developing new growth platforms and revenue streams?

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Great Leaders Are Consistently The Biggest Thinkers In The Room

As a leader, do you lead with courage? Are you challenging the status quo? Are you thinking big? These are important questions to reflect on because as a leader you set the tone. Do you want your team to think and act boldly? You have to think and act boldly.

Jorge

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Building a Champion Mindset: The Power of a Confident Self-Image

What do Lebron James, Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan have in common? They are considered to be the best at what they do. How did they do that? Attitude, talent, discipline, and consistency; are the usual suspects. But you know what separates them from the rest? Their mindset, how they think, enables them to operate at peak performance.

Jorge

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11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation

“Hang out with weird, and thou shall become more weirder” Tom Peters once said when advising on how you can become more creative. This will always be true because something you can bet on not changing in the future is human nature.

Jorge

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entrepreneurship, Leadership

The Most Imporant Leadership Principle: Be The Example

by Jorge in entrepreneurship, Leadership

“I want quality! Why aren’t we delivering quality consistently?” I was talking with a client recently about his operation, and he mentioned a few challenges his business has been having with quality issues. His business has been dealing with growth issues for many years, unable to grow because they don’t have the size and competence to deliver at a larger scale.

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entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

10 Reasons Why You Should Automate Your Business’s Redundant Workflows And Processes

by Jorge in entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

Artificial intelligence is the talk of the town. Whether or not it’s ready for prime time depends on your level of expectation. In its current state, it’s not going to replace humans anytime soon; but it can certainly take over some redundant tasks and workflows.

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Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

8 Practices To Drive Innovation In Your Business

by Jorge in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

“We’ve been brainstorming ideas, but we haven’t decided on what to do”, “We brainstorm all the time but end up with the same ideas”, and “We brainstorm around ideas that only management wants”. Last week I visited a prospective client in the manufacturing industry, these are some of the things that they told me when I asked them about their innovation efforts.