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The fol­low­ing 5 tips are a must read if you want to send emails that leave a good impres­sion, and com­pel the recip­i­ent of your emails to take imme­di­ate action.
1. Be bold: Start with the end
Need an answer from your recip­i­ent? Want them to take a par­tic­u­lar action, like print­ing an […]

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Aiming for excellence

by The Crazy Colombian on December 20, 2007

in Life, Opinion

 

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On Dan Millman’s blog, there was a recent entry that gen­er­ated some inter­est­ing com­men­tary (click here to see the entry and com­ments)
This is what was said that grabbed my atten­tion: “I feel the aspect of achieve­ment and suc­cess and making-something-of-oneself plays less of a role here in Europe. These are, after all, […]

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Corporate memory? The human record?

by The Crazy Colombian on December 7, 2007

in Life, Reflection

The human race, like many other enti­ties, oper­ates in cycles. Empires rise and fall. Sea­sons come and go. And we con­tinue to make the same mis­takes many times, over and over.
As indi­vid­u­als, we can rely on our mem­ory (if we have a decent one!) to remem­ber our mis­takes and try to avoid them in the future. […]

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Almost 20 years ago I was sit­ting on a class­room at the ‘Uni­ver­si­dad de Los Andes’ learn­ing about System’s The­ory. In that class-room, I learned a very use­ful par­a­digm: Almost any­thing you care to look at, can be inter­preted as a sys­tem that takes some inputs; processes them; and pro­vides some out­puts.
Throughout […]

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