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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>On reorganisation and micromanagement temptations in times of crises (holding the steering wheel tight)</title>
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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>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>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>
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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>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>Mirror, mirror&#8230; (Project shadow management)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/30/mirror-mirror-project-shadow-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average project manager is affected by all sorts of diseases. One of the worst, that could be labelled as project manager&#8217;s myopia, in line with other sectoral diseases like manager&#8217;s myopia (that is related to perfectly managing something that should not be done at all) or marketeers&#8217; myopia (when we further seek perfection to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=378&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kobayashi Maru (a no-win situation)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/20/kobayashi-maru-a-no-win-situation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Star Trek is not the encyclopedia of life. Even though it contains so many interesting ideas about leadership and management, with different styles depending on the series, that is worth knowing about. One of the scenarios that is a reference in the Star Trek world is the Kobayashi Maru scenario, which is a &#8220;lose-lose&#8221; or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=371&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under-promise and overachieve (the expectations model)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/13/under-promise-and-overachieve-the-expectations-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that happen to often in program management is that contractors, specifically their project managers, want to be too nice. Yes, of course they must be nice, but not that nice. I&#8217;m not talking of nice presents or sumptuous dinners. I&#8217;m talking of making too much promises. Well, it&#8217;s understandable when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=369&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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