Ines Garcia > Quotes

“Intrinsically we humans want to be happy, and happiness derives from having purpose, pursuit towards interesting and challenging ‘something’ that is greater than oneself.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Better measures of progress are at our disposal, we need to create a new narrative and a shared vision to draw a future that is sustainable, that illustrates the full picture, and that’s in balance with our environment.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“One of the key elements of circular economy thinking is designing-out waste, including and especially from the product inception phase.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“You are measured on the value that you deliver, not on what’s been done.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“The fundamental attribution error, where we tend to read others’ actions on a negative incline which we directly relate to their character and their personality.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“A tree is known by its fruits. The worth of our products, services and organisations is determined by others based on what is produced and visible to the world. Impact is what matters.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Individuals in any organisation [...] need to see beyond their wallets and use a better measure of progress.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“We are facing a new energy transition. In terms of technology, the challenge of our century is moving from fossil fuel to clean energy sources, and to generate smart electricity grids.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Having a path for the product is good, building that path in line of the vision is key, doing it together ‘makes or breaks it’, tuning and adjusting it as we go and learning from it is what wins in an ever changing environment.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Today’s competitive advantage is basically based on two key things: The first is the speed to market with persistent experimentation, and then the second is the ability to swiftly transform some of those experimental business ideas into fully-fledged products and services.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Documentation is not a step on a linear timeline, and certainly not the one at the end.
One could argue documentation is a byproduct.”
― Ines Garcia

“Systems thinking helps us to understand the relationship between the structure and the behaviour.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Optimizing for figures without context leads to trouble.”
― Ines Garcia

“The diverse pathways that we have towards zero carbon emissions are complementary to each other. Your target is to reduce at least your current carbon emission by 50% per year from now on.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Having the awareness of organisations being operating systems, you can then look beyond the mechanism of an organisation to the organism.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“To become more aware of this behavioral tendency, we need to observe and acknowledge how sustainable performance is rewarded; find out what are the consistency of practices and how real is the dimension of organizational values against its daily operations?”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“It starts with why. We need a purpose to create long term value, where gains are fairly distributed and where we leave the place better than how we found it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Intrinsically, we humans want to be happy. Evaluative happiness tends to be more stable, and therefore sustainable. Happiness derives from having a purpose, i.e. the pursuit of an interesting and challenging something, which is greater than oneself.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Different ideas are just that, another outlook to the same situation. And it all starts with oneself. Getting DEtached from being ATtached to one’s own ideas.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“My theory is that more often than not, we are guilty of being oblivious of feelings.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“So if you are to measure something, measure what is fostering an environment of bringing that value faster in a safer and happier environment.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Connective power. These relationships have the ability to impact and influence one another, so this capacity can be leveraged to bring about change in a more organic, long-lasting way. Evolution, not revolution.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Markets change, visions change, technologies change, teams change, settings change, relationships change… with an ever changing environment it will be naive to think that you can draw the future with a straight line.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“As Product Owner trust your team, they solve much harder things every day.”
― Ines Garcia

“Help yourself with your workspace set up, reduction of notifications, block sections to achieve specific goals, reduce distractions and allow yourself to get into deep flow.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Green Recovery focuses on improving operations, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, expanding renewable energy sources, etc., so it accounts for future environment and climate justice for the planet, and the livelihoods of everyone on it.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Bureaucracy creep is the act of slowly and steadily increasing an excessively complicated administrative procedure, which happens unnoticed. Can take many forms like little process changes, extra steps, policy updates… This slows you down.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Companies with a culture of employee recognition, where employees feel that their contributions matter, perform better and have less employee turnover than those that don’t.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Being a sustainable, happy and profitable organisation goes beyond checklists and execution of responsibility. It’s a deep partnership of the whole, across your value chain, employees, customers and community.”
― Ines Garcia, Sustainable Happy Profit

“Groups, teams and organisations are operating systems. Individuals don't exist as disconnected modules from others, from situations, from contexts... Build up perspective no only in yourself and your now, specially also to connections to others.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more agile whilst delivering Salesforce