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		<title>Workers crave for attention (The Hawthorne effect)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened long ago, in 1924. Taylorism was in its apogee so it was only reasonable that there were studies going on at the Hawthorne Works. Testing different ways of doing things. Groups of workers, reduced time of work, output rate peaked, more reduced time of work, output rate soared again, total output decreased. Then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=574&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take care of the senses and the sounds will take care of themselves (A Lewis Carroll reflection)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I spoke to someone that was having an executive education experience. He had sort of been immersed in a boot camp, hectic experience, out of his comfort zone, not a minute to rest. He had a lot of fun and he proclaimed he had came back sort of a changed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=562&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A kill is a kill (my MBA Integrated Management Project is finally done!)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/11/09/a-kill-is-a-kill-my-mba-integrated-management-project-is-finally-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hectic days. I was in Oman for a presentation with a British company (I had so much fun, they are great and the experience was great, maybe one day&#8230;), and then a dozen days in India (trying to move forward the management centres for Delhi&#8217;s airport). I did also manage (although I don&#8217;t know exactly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=553&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To boldly go where no man has ever gone before</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/10/04/to-boldly-go-where-no-man-has-ever-gone-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last workshop at Henley is over, and I&#8217;ve already started feeling that something is missing. Still in the Greenlands, it&#8217;s hard to interiorise that two and a half years of MBA have gone so fast. And with them the successful completion of a huge airport terminal, my first steps in India, and other huge, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=549&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On reorganisation and micromanagement temptations in times of crises (holding the steering wheel tight)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/08/05/on-reorganisation-and-micromanagement-temptations-in-times-of-crises-holding-the-steering-wheel-tight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to the occasional reader: I had this post saved from long ago as a draft and I decided to let it go like it is, I&#8217;m in a different mindset now&#8230; see next post which is really today&#8217;s In times of crises, and by this I mean, for instance, when you&#8217;re in the latests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=489&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A weekend in Cologne (Köln) and some bits of European construction</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/05/25/a-weekend-in-cologne-koln-and-some-bits-of-european-construction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 09:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been this weekend in Cologne, an amazingly thriving city on the Rhine born about 50BC as a Roman outpost. A city that grew in the industrial revolution thanks to the enterprisingness of its inhabitants that strategically used their proximity to the coal of the Ruhr region. Catholics, in 1248 they began the construction of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=520&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green shoots, maybe, but don&#8217;t expect flowers</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/05/18/green-shoots-maybe-but-dont-expect-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m increasingly growing wary, or even tiresome, of anyone that talks about green shoots. Yes, put a lot of fertiliser over a bed of rocks and something will grow on that. Mostly weeds. After all, weeds are green, but they don&#8217;t make nice flowers. After pouring so many fertiliser taken from the forced lenders throughout the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=517&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I sense some hope&#8230; sorry not yet! (Pandora&#8217;s jar is still not completely open)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/04/27/i-sense-some-hope-sorry-not-yet-pandoras-jar-is-still-not-completely-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been hearing some musings about how the economic situation is improving. Yes, optimists are always necessary, though they can also be a bit annoying sometimes. In any case it&#8217;s good to reflect for a while on where are we now. Have the fundamentals of the current crisis changed so much that we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=511&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An unexpected impact of the crisis in project management (no, they are not lazy)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/04/09/an-unexpected-impact-of-the-crisis-in-project-management-no-they-are-not-lazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the new terminal in Barcelona&#8217;s airport nears its completion and the trials are increasingly successful, we are increasingly dwelling into the depths of this recession / depression. No manager can have the luxury of forgetting the external environment, as it always impact us somehow, somewhere. Sometimes project managers tend to think that they are insulated from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=504&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving from the tyranny of success to the crisis-stifled innovation</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/03/24/moving-from-the-tyranny-of-success-to-the-crisis-stifled-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, your company used to work so well. You were succeeding. And since you were succeeding and you were the incumbent, you needn&#8217;t innovate. Well, of course, you were better than that and you decided to innovate anyway, letting go some leash and opening some space for incremental innovation, probably parting from your customers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=499&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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