All good, all bad...

Reading is often a pleasure, but for me most of the time is a necessity. As a business consultant, still looking for THAT job, I need to be aware of all is happening around.

It surprises me, however, when I find things that look so interesting, but at the same time something is missing. One article in The Economist did the trick this time.

After reading it, I remembered something that happened to me a short time ago. One of my job opportunities is a work with people from a Eastern country. I was sent to a webpage that checks the culture of people and I was amazed when they said those people were just like Latin Americans. Talking to a friend of mine she said the same.

Wondering, I finally found a friend's son, who works as the only Latin American manager in a company that comes from that Eastern country - all other managers are from that country. And his comments were totally different. He gave me an approach that matched what I heard from other people.

By reading that article, I find the same thing. It seems people base their assumptions on one side only - in this case, on the perspective of people from those countries we call developed. So, they see those Eastern people, they see Latin American and they say, well, they are all the same!

Globalisation is creating an impact. In Colombia, where I live, I find NOBODY whose lives were not changed by that - either because they work in a company, or their relatives or friends left to live in another country. More strange is the fact the author mentions several Indian names and I don't know a place where the globalisation effect is stronger than that wonderful country.

I think that if you have to check the effectiveness of something - and I agree it is time to review globalisation - you should take all approaches, not only the point of view of a piece of land. And, by the way, I went to Spain and that is a country enjoying the effects of globalisation. Just open your eyes, nothing is all bad, nothing is all good.

Take care!

Is it a Hollywood movie?

Think about the movie you like most. Imagine some scenes, the music, dialogues.

Now, think about your own life. Any difference in that?

I feel movies (and other entertainment shows) are taking out the action of our own lives. Most people are starting to feel they live a bored life.

Few years back, a couple I've known "escaped" to live somewhere near Bogota, in a kind of heavenly place to start a new community of their own. First of all, they escaped from none - there was nothing preventing them doing that. Second, after a while they came back to the sweet boring comfortable life of a check at the end of the month.

In fact, your life is wonderful! My life is marvelous! Just see the greatness of it. It is better than a Hollywood movie, full of action. Each decision can change the whole scope of time, the whole universe.

Sit down and watch a little bit more your own life.

Take Care!

Lost or loose thoughts?

• I couldn't avoid... BroxZoosCobra's twitters were the best! Full of humour, at the same time took me into a nice tour around New York. It is still going on. I think INTERNET has become a wonderful way to know people with talent - whomever is representing the cobra is a great comedian. (or, you believe it was the cobra itself?)
• Now I have the "modern" passport. Some people are calling it electronic passport, but it is the same one (two pages more...), about 3 times more expensive and with smaller letters. No complain, however.
• Did you know life is always preparing you for something? My mind world map consists of very few countries where I would love to live, visit a few times or tour around. Korea is not one of them - my thoughts have always been in its neighbour, Japan (all my feelings for its people!). Anyway, a few years back I've met Ruth, an English woman who lived 30 years in Korea. Few years later, I've met a couple from Cartagena, Colombia, whose son was studying or working in Korea. About 2 years ago, I've met a young woman who was living in Brazil, guess where she was from?? Well, now I am about to kick off my first work of the year, with a company whose CEO is... YES! KOREAN! Then, I had all these people who gave me fascinating hints about the culture and people there.
• In relation to the former entry, I was just checking a webpage, http://www.geert-hofstede.com/. Although very professional, they say there that Korean culture is basically the same as Latin culture. Wrong, fellows! I am Latin and, no, no comparison with Korean. So, yesterday, when I was checking again on the Principle of Uncertainty, it confirmed my theory: you alter whatever you were observing. By watching each culture, people from this company they "changed" their culture.

Well, take care, see you soon!!!