From the monthly archives:

February 2007

There *is* an ‘I’ in Team

by The Crazy Colombian on February 22, 2007

in Life, Reflection

A team of indi­vid­u­als that all think the same way usu­ally does not achieve the level of ‘high-performing team’. This is dic­tated by Intel­lec­tual Dar­win­ism, which stip­u­lates that to have a rich intel­lec­tual envi­ron­ment, we need diver­sity of ideas, expe­ri­ence and skills.
But a team so diverse that its indi­vid­u­als have per­spec­tives, ideas and opin­ions with […]

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Question your point of view — Paradox #3

by The Crazy Colombian on February 22, 2007

in Life, Reflection

If we go into a meet­ing with a strong point of view, we run the risk of
not lis­ten­ing to the per­spec­tive of oth­ers, and miss­ing out on find­ing the
facts that will enrich our own views.
And if we go into a meet­ing with no point of view, and sim­ply ask
ques­tions, we run the risk of spend­ing all […]

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The value of gifts — Paradox # 2

by The Crazy Colombian on February 13, 2007

in Life, Reflection

The value of gifts (irre­spec­tive of whether you bought them at a store or not) is not intrin­sic to the gift itself. It relates more to how you came up with the gift, and how the recip­i­ent per­ceives the gift.
Give away too lit­tle, too rarely, or too cheaply, and your gifts may be mis­in­ter­preted as something […]

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Image: Body Lan­guage, Face­less Expres­sions by Jimmy Mac­Don­ald
At a very early age, I saw my Dad’s best friend (who was like a sec­ond father to me) die of lung can­cer; like many strong-minded, stub­born latin amer­i­can men, he took to smok­ing from an early age, and it killed him at the peak of […]

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It’s all relative — Paradox #1

by The Crazy Colombian on February 8, 2007

in Life, Opinion

If you seek absolute answers, you end up with absolute fail­ure.
But if you choose rel­a­tive per­spec­tives with­out absolute pas­sion, you end up with rel­a­tively mediocre results.
It’s all rel­a­tive; Ein­stein him­self said it.

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Are you a knowledge junkie?

by The Crazy Colombian on February 7, 2007

in Personal Development, Quizz

Image: Path to knowl­edge by fic­tures
Are you a knowl­edge junkie? Take this quizz and find out!!
1. How many ‘self-help’ books do you have in your book­shelf?
a) None
b) 1–3
c) 4–10
d) more than 10
2. How many ‘self-help’ books have you actu­ally read?
a) None
b) One
c) Less than Five
d) More than Five
3. How many Sem­i­nars (non-work related) have you paid to attend […]

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Good vs Evil

by The Crazy Colombian on February 5, 2007

in Life, Opinion

A few days ago I came across a stim­u­lat­ing essay on the bat­tle between Absolute good and Absolute evil that is a con­stant theme in Walt Disney’s car­toons (link); and the implicit assump­tions we are teach­ing our chil­dren by encour­ag­ing them to watch these movies.
Whilst I agreed whole­heart­edly with the analy­sis, I dis­liked the implicit […]

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Old friends

by The Crazy Colombian on February 4, 2007

in Life, Reflection

Image:  Friends for Ever by Hamed Saber
What’s a friend?
Two days ago I got in touch with an old friend : my best friend dur­ing the last 4 years of High School. In read­ing his web site (www.barrerajose.com) I found many of the attrib­utes that I loved about our friend­ship, and many of the weird things […]

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