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?

amazon electrolyte powder

LET’S TALK

The Best Leaders Revel In Being Wrong

“I know the business.” The word, “know”, is the enemy of improvement and innovation. Innovation has many enemies, but experience and groupthink are its biggest. And because people run businesses, every single one of them will fall into the trap.

Jorge

min read 0

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

min read 0

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

min read 0

Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

Open-mindedness: The Secret Weapon of Innovation Leaders

by Jorge in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

Open-mindedness: Bullsh*t or Superpower? Forget charisma, forget vision. The one quality truly separating innovation rockstars from the mediocre is a shockingly underrated superpower: open-mindedness.

min read 0

entrepreneurship, Leadership

Leadership is The Ultimate Equalizer

by Jorge in entrepreneurship, Leadership

Want to make a difference in anything you do? That’s the mindset and attitude of a leader. Leadership is the ultimate difference-maker in groups, teams, organizations, and businesses. There is no shortage of training, seminars, talks, books, courses, and articles; still, great leadership is rare. The industrial era command and control model still reigns supreme, and businesses feel like employees are there to serve the business owner(s).

min read 0

entrepreneurship, Leadership

Are You Accelerating Progress Or Are You Impeding It?

by Jorge in entrepreneurship, Leadership

I truly believe that whether a business thrives or dies is largely determined by the quality of its leadership. And, great leadership is spread across the whole business not just one person. Yes, businesses are surviving even with bad leadership but because no better option exists.