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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posting again after a too long hiatus. And thinking of branding, personal branding. I overheard a conversation that made me cringe about faking. Personal brands are confusing muddy concepts under suspicion that make us recall the marketisation and productisation of people. Let&#8217;s package ourselves with a nice and faux decor so as to facilitate our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=571&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;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>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/11/20/take-care-of-the-senses-and-the-sounds-will-take-care-of-themselves-a-lewis-carroll-reflection/</link>
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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&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=562&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iberia and British Airways&#8217; merger (two losers together don&#8217;t make a winner)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/11/14/iberia-and-british-airways-merger-two-losers-together-dont-make-a-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally they had to do it. Slumping for too long with revenues going down the drain finally made both companies not so choosy about each other, specially when the rest of the European partners are already married and the half-blood-European-Americans are not allowed. They finally had to sit together in the only remaining chair. Borrowed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=557&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=489&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>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&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=499&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>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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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>Never say no to upper management (reality will do it for you anyway)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/02/10/never-say-no-if-you-dont-love-me/</link>
		<comments>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/02/10/never-say-no-if-you-dont-love-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many organisations, bad news just go one way, and that&#8217;s out the door. Managers try to keep their superiors happy, and you bet they do, just talking more about the good things than the bad things. Who can blame them for that? Well, you should. As I like to say, reality is stubborn. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=478&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging from the Opera (blogging with Figaro)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/11/18/blogging-from-the-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than two weeks into an important milestone for the airport&#8217;s operational readiness and less than three weeks from my marketing and business environment exam, I find myself blogging from el Liceu, Barcelona&#8217;s opera house. Amidst this quagmire that my daily job has been turning into, I still could scape to enjoy Mozart&#8217;s The Marriage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=441&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>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/07/22/back-from-india/</link>
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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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