Month: July 2012

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

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The chapters are dedicated to each of the habits, which are represented by the following imperatives: Be Proactive. Here, Covey emphasizes the original sense of the term “proactive” as coined by Victor Frankl. You can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to certain things. When you are reactive, you … Read more

Defects and Cost Control

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The graphic below tries to show that there is a cost associated with poor quality. The concept is: If you have poor quality you have to develop processes and systems and expend resources to provide quality control. By reducing the number of defects produced by a process you free up the resources involved in oversight … Read more

Move to Seville

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We have been looking for location alternatives for balancing professional and personal live. There were three options on the paper I did on March with a clear priority. Finally the third option is the only realistic option, and despite it was the third one on the list, I’m more happy to have this one than … Read more

Unrealistic requests

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Sometimes I receive weird requests demanding a lot of different information related to something related to my duties, but that are special requests that are out of the standard reporting rules. These requests have some of these features: They are not linked with any major initiative, program or business standard process. The delivery date is … Read more

La Batalla de Somiedo

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Primera edición de esta carrera de montaña que transcurrió entre el Alto de la Farrapona y Pola de Somiedo. 22 kms de subidas y muchas bajadas por un lugar increible. Teniendo en cuenta como he estado estos últimos meses, en los cuales no he podido apenas salir a correr, tuve muy buenas sensaciones, yendo de … Read more