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		<title>Opening day (the commissioning of Barcelona&#8217;s Airport Terminal 1)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/06/17/opening-day-the-commissioning-of-barcelonas-terminal-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unbelievable we&#8217;re already here. After six years of dedicating an important part of my professional life to Barcelona&#8217;s Airport, today Terminal 1 is officially born. We&#8217;ll listen to the politicians&#8217; speeches on how they made this possible. Maybe they did, but we worked all the way through. And this feeling, this pride, this sense of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=527&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A weekend in Cologne (Köln) and some bits of European construction</title>
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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 their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=520&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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>
		<comments>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/05/18/green-shoots-maybe-but-dont-expect-flowers/#comments</comments>
		<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 (yes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=517&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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>
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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 say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=511&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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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 the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=504&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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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&blog=780707&post=499&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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 has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=493&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=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 stubborn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=478&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banco Santander: a rising star (but not that bright)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/01/29/banco-santander-a-rising-star-but-not-that-bright/</link>
		<comments>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/01/29/banco-santander-a-rising-star-but-not-that-bright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been reading in the news on how Banco Santander is covering its customers over Madoff&#8217;s losses, and how it&#8217;s been cherry picking some banks in distress, as well as not using the Spanish&#8217;s government toxic assets relief measures you&#8217;ll be thinking that they are a rising star. And they are, I won&#8217;t be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=469&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The tipping point of the crisis (are we there yet?)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/01/21/the-tipping-point-of-the-crisis-are-we-there-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s easy to talk about something when it has already happened. The crisis seems so predictable now (it was predictable before as well if you browse to older posts). Now the trick is about spotting the tipping point. Have we already seen the worst or are we going into a depression this time?
If we all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&blog=780707&post=466&subd=gabrielbcn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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