My 5 Biggest Lessons from Successes and Challenges of 2018!

My 5 Biggest Lessons from Successes and Challenges of 2018.

What an interesting blogging year 2018 was! Thank YOU for being such an amazing tribe. Your support and feedback helped me think and keep moving forward with my personal development journey.

I’m sharing with you here the 5 biggest lessons I learned this year

 1.- Leader without a story

“Where there’s no vision the people perish” – Proverbs 29:18

Leading is complex, difficult and I can feel alone and misunderstood quite often, but with Queen, one of my favourite all time I’ll never walk alone!

One vision - How to create our vision for an Agile team; Queen inspires me!

 2.- I don’t have the presence

“We, people in the Globalization/Localization tend to transition to leadership position. We start as translators, QA testers …. And we truly struggle to get in a leadership mindset”

Localization as part of Global Business Strategy –Decoding the air C-level Executives breath

 3.- If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African proverb

 Getting along with LSP is a long process but it has not to be necessary painful. Have a look to this post to get some ideas about how to on board vendors in any LOCALIZATION PROCESS.
The 7 dimensions for Localization Vendors on boarding 

4.- Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? To help me see what I might be missing! - Livermore-

Cultural Intelligence - the future of management!

5.- Begin with the end in mind – Stephen Covey

Create content thinking about final users from the beginning!

UX Localization? Is that a "thing"? and how we measure UX satisfaction?

 
What about you? what were your biggest lessons learned in 2018? Do share below, it would be great to hear from you. And…. happy Holidays to everyone

Until next year!

@yolocalizo