If you are looking for the proven, step-by-step method, to build and grow a business in fascinating and challenging times, this book is for you. Follow the author’s advice to the letter, and you will reap the rewards. The information in this book is some of the most brilliant business advice available today.

Pamela Ayuso’s solid and comprehensive work in Heptagram is a refreshing, innovative and lucid read. Drawn from her hands-on experiences as a successful entrepreneur and business thinker, Pamela’s writing switches effortlessly from explaining concepts to narrating contexts gained from her experiences as a founder at Celaque. Focusing on the 7 pillar design system, Pamela’s style is crisp and engages the reader from the get-go, as she adds interesting anecdotal insights alongside the approach she proposes in the book. Pamela’s focus on spreading ‘the idea of horizontality throughout the entire company’ and on decentralization to make the company ‘emergency-ready’ are elixirs in the current scenario where businesses face unknown challenges and need to be nimbler. This is a new age business book recommended for all.

Heptagram is a refreshing approach to understanding and scaling a business. It steps away from the usual business literature, which is mainly based on business model and functional division frameworks (ie. sales, operations, finance...). Instead, Pamela's Heptagram method guides the reader through the building blocks that allow a business to run smoothly from inside out: structure, processes, information systems, metrics, trust, self-learning, and plasticity. It is a practical, cross functional approach that stitches journeys across departments in a company. Heptagram is a structured method toavoid knowledge silos and bottlenecks, a must read for C-levels and consultants.

Pamela in Heptagram, her well written book, takes you with her on the exciting journey of building a successful company. She shares not just what she learned taking a startup through growing pains, but what she discovered in her voracious reading of “best practices.”

Pamela Ayuso understands that when it comes to business design, one size does not fit all. In a world that is continually changing, companies must adapt and grow to survive. Heptagram an owner's manual to help leaders develop an internal business model that is robust and thrives in a changing economy. As a real estate entrepreneur and developer, Ayuso's experience at scaling companies serves as a model for taking small, medium, and large businesses to the next level. The concepts and tools in this book will have readers referring to it time and time again.

Loved this book, this is must have for any leader or entrepreneur looking to embrace efficiency and resilience in any organization. The author shares a very precise approach on how an organization should be prioritizing its business pillars to achieve business goals. I loved how the author balanced her personal experience with the theory and practical applications, hard concepts made them feel easy!

Heptagram, The 7-Pillar Design System for the 21st Century, is an essential read for those wanting to implement a people, process and technology model in their company.

Heptagram is the rare business book that takes the reader up to heights of truly big picture thinking, down to the level of real world implementation, and back again. Taken together, the 7 Pillars offer the business leader a blueprint for creating the high performing organizational structures and processes needed to thrive in today's complex and uncertain markets, with an inspired and resilient culture to bring it all to life!

Pamela Ayuso’s Heptagram is the perfect how-to book when you want to launch a successful company in today’s environment with a culture that will stand the test of time.

Pamela Ayuso’s book is simple, useful and a great guide for all those who are starting a business. In today’s changing world we need this kind of help to create, improve and adapt our businesses and strive for success. A must read no doubt.

Pamela Ayuso’s Heptagram is a practical guide for any business with the ambition and drive to become an industry leader. Using lessons learned from Ayuso’s personal experiences and studies, Heptagram illustrates seven fundamental pillars that are critical for any successful enterprise, in a manner that is easy to relate to and implement. It is a tremendously useful guide for entrepreneurs and executives interested in scaling their business and growing from changing circumstances.

Pamela Ayuso's “Heptagram The 7 -Pillar Business Design System for the 21st Century” provides an easy-to-read and assimilate framework to follow as your endeavors grow or are disrupted. This book will be of great value to an experienced CEO as well as to a budding entrepreneur, as the Heptagram method can help you diagnose and rethink your existing operations or to help you create and manage the best structure for new projects. Pamela Ayuso provides a clear path for the reader to understand the different dynamics and drivers at play in running an organization as she presents the theory and concepts in the Heptagram method combined with her personal real-world experience in applying them in her company. Upon finishing the book, I was left with an immense sense of urgency to revisit various aspects of the companies I run.

Planning and structuring the entrepreneurial process is a start, but living and inhaling it is the art. For leaders contemplating to take the leap into the unknown, starting their own business from scratch, yet then preparing towards living through the ups and downs—ranging from organizational development, culture building to hands-on strategy work—, learning from successful entrepreneurial journeys is pivotal. Through its highly engaging narrative and its very honest and critical reflection, Pamela Ayuso’s book manages to catapult the reader into the center stage of her story. A very captivating and thought-provoking read.