Pieces published since 2017, from my years leading an industrial company through to my doctoral research and current advisory work. Filter by publication, language or year.
Porsche has spent a year working on what it will presumably announce formally on 7 October — and Europe’s automotive sector should pay attention to the sequence of events that Porsche has disclosed and executed this year, rather than to the announcement itself.
Porsche lleva un año trabajando en lo que presumiblemente anunciará formalmente el próximo 7 de octubre, y el sector automovilístico europeo debería prestar atención a la secuencia de los acontecimientos que Porsche ha comunicado y ejecutado este año, más allá que el anuncio en sí.
Detroit’s 1970s script is being replayed by Europe against Chinese car manufacturers under structurally worse conditions — and the one variable that rescued Detroit, a leader as Lee Iacocca, is absent in Europe by design.
El guión que siguió Detroit en los años setenta lo está repitiendo Europa frente a los fabricantes chinos en condiciones estructuralmente peores, y la variable que salvó a Detroit —un lider como Lee Iacocca— está ausente en Europa por definiciñn.
Think, Design and Do: Toward a Framework for Time Allocation in SME Leadership [Forthcoming]
An academic paper on the structural problem of SME leadership, where strategic, tactical and operational responsibility concentrated in one person or a small team, and what a deliberate allocation of managerial attention across those three levels would require.
Presented at the Executive DBA Council (EDBAC) conference on 18 July 2026. The paper is being prepared for journal submission, so the full text is not published here. For academic enquiries, write to me.
Business, racing and academia are not three separate lives but reciprocally interfaced systems — and integrating them openly makes the whole more coherent, not less.
El crecimiento ambidiestro de las pymes españolas se consigue creando un sistema de liderazgo que haga repetibles el aprendizaje, la delegación y la ejecución.
Lo que desde fuera parece falta de ambición en las pymes industriales españolas es, en realidad, una manifestación de priorización disciplinada y de una gestión detalladísima de recursos escasos.
Innovation is less about having the right answers and more about the courage to ask questions — and the smallest changes, made by anyone, are often the ones that matter.