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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&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=574&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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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&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=504&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Listening (a reflection induced by a beacon)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/03/12/listening-a-reflection-induced-by-a-beacon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took a few hours away off the hectic drumming of the new terminal to concentrate on a new project that I am leading: a new control system for the runways and taxiways lighting system for Barcelona&#8217;s airport, that happens to have the biggest beacon lighting system in Spain, bigger than Madrid&#8217;s. This project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=493&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from India (and from a cultural impact)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just arrived from Delhi. In fact it has been 24 hours but, in the meantime, my mind kept wandering inbetween all kinds of different landscapes, smells and tastes until it settled back again. So many different faces, so many different paces: our hectic effort of preparing a presentation on the club lounge of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=387&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Madrid to Barcelona&#8217;s olympic port (and a captain)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/07/09/from-madrid-to-barcelonas-olympic-port-and-a-captain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks are so hectic that you simply don&#8217;t have time to write. And if you do, it&#8217;s not because you&#8217;ve had the chance to sit back and reflect about something, but because you have some free time in-between things to be done. That&#8217;s the case for today: a few free minutes. The day began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=382&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the final exam (aka after the storm)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/10/after-the-final-exam-aka-after-the-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exam was really stressful. More than three hours writing like crazy. At the end I was rather confused, not really sure of what to expect. Fortunately, it was over. I sat the exam at Barcelona&#8217;s British Council. I thought it would be a better experience than taking a plane and driving to Henley. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=365&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with the Terminal 5 syndrome</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/29/living-with-the-terminal-5-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the average reader of this blog knows, and wordpress knows such individuals exist to my amazement (THANK-YOU), I do several things in my job, one of them is the integration of the baggagge system in the Terminal South (or Terminal D) in Barcelona&#8217;s airport. Well, it used to be one of them&#8230; but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=361&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Terminal 5 (Interviewed for the Times)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/15/learning-from-terminal-5-interviewed-for-the-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed by Widget Finn for the Times, and she wrote the following article: The disastrous debut of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was a nightmare experience for all involved, but for Gabriel Mesquida it has proved a valuable live case study for his MBA dissertation. Mesquida is a programme manager for Aena, the Spanish equivalent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=356&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pfeffer&#8217;s thirteen practices for managing people</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/12/pfeffers-thirteen-practices-for-managing-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these days of reviewing information, I came across a classic (yet again) and I thought I could share it with you, albeit in a summarised form. These are Jeffrey Pfeffer&#8217;s thirteen practices that any manager should take into account. Of course they express a certain point of view based in a set of assumptions, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=354&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want someone to do something? You&#8217;ve got to go first! (and be accountable)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/03/19/want-someone-to-do-something-youve-got-to-go-first-and-be-accountable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you wondered what actually makes a good manager? Is it something that is taught at business schools or is it something more? Why some people have that ability to make others follow them and others do not? Is it credibility that makes people follow you? How can you grow trust and dependability. Well, there&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=335&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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