- restaura.do. Tuning my organizational-restoration practice. It's the craft; oscargelves.com is the workshop. restaura.do →
- NEXO by Restaura.do. Connects every opportunity to the CRM: it accompanies the execution from proposal to close.
- The "Dawns" series. Running since October: every Monday and Thursday at dawn, on Instagram and on the site, a sunrise with a line of thought behind it. See Dawns →
- Travel with purpose. Preparing the first one, with more intention than itinerary.
- Reading and learning. A short, roughly monthly list, with the cover, a summary, and why I recommend it.
October 2026
Traction · Gino Wickman
Traction introduces the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS): a six-component framework (vision, people, data, issues, process, and traction) for leaders to stop firefighting and start executing with discipline. Wickman doesn't sell theory; he hands over concrete meeting, focus, and accountability tools any team can adopt the following week.
Why I recommend it. It's the book I'd lend to any owner or leader who feels their company is growing but nobody is actually piloting it. Most of the organizations I restore don't need a new idea: they need the discipline to execute the ones they already have. EOS gives that a name and a structure.
October 2026
Nuestro iceberg se derrite · John Kotter y Holger Rathgeber
Our Iceberg Is Melting tells the story of a penguin colony that discovers the iceberg it lives on is melting, and how a small group manages to get the whole colony to change in time. It's the fable Kotter uses to explain, without jargon, his eight-step model for leading change: creating real urgency, building a coalition, communicating the vision, and anchoring new habits before declaring victory.
Why I recommend it. I recommend it because it packs into a one-hour story what takes me months to teach a team: change doesn't fail for lack of logic, it fails for lack of shared urgency and a coalition to carry it. I use it as a starting point when a leadership team still can't see that their iceberg is melting.
October 2026
El cuerpo lleva la cuenta · Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score draws on three decades of clinical research to explain how trauma is recorded not only in memory but in the body itself: in breathing, posture, the nervous system. Van der Kolk surveys therapies that go beyond talking about the past (EMDR, yoga, neurofeedback, theater) to show that healing moves through the body, not only through reason.
Why I recommend it. It's the counterweight missing from any conversation about leadership or organizational restoration that stops at process and structure. The people I lead and accompany don't show up blank: they carry history in the body. Understanding that changes how I listen before proposing any change.
September 2026
The Cure · John Lynch, Bruce McNicol y Bill Thrall
The Cure dismantles the idea that God is disappointed in us, and that real change comes from more effort and more shame. The authors argue that genuine transformation is born from being known and loved as we are, not from performing well enough to earn acceptance.
Why I recommend it. It's the necessary counterweight to any language of "excellence" or "high performance." Before asking a leader or a team to improve, you have to make sure they're not trying to earn something already given to them. That distinction changes completely how I design the work in Restaura.do.
August 2026
Ordering Your Private World · Gordon MacDonald
Gordon MacDonald writes about the gap between the public world we show and the private world that holds up everything else. His thesis is simple and demanding: when the private world (inner discipline, time with God, rest, calling) is in order, the public world sustains itself. When it isn't, no external achievement makes up for it for long.
Why I recommend it. I recommend it because it talks about restoration without using that word in the opening pages. MacDonald doesn't start with the system or the strategy; he starts with the inner order of the person leading. It's exactly the starting point I hold to in Restaura.do: you can't restore an organization from a leadership that is disordered on the inside.
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