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	<description>Digressive thoughts from an engineer &#38; economist going for an MBA ;)</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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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 [...]]]></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 in [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operating Systems strategies (why Windows and Mac OS are going in opposite directions)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/24/operating-systems-strategies-why-windows-and-mac-os-are-going-in-opposite-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/24/operating-systems-strategies-why-windows-and-mac-os-are-going-in-opposite-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vista has not accomplished its expectations. Albeit more than 140 million copies sold, that only represents around 13% of the installed base. And if you take into account that Vista has been around since november 2006 and an average lifespan of five years for any computer, only because of natural growth that figure should be [...]]]></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>
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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 &#8220;no-win&#8221; [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/13/under-promise-and-overachieve-the-expectations-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
		
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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 don&#8217;t [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
		
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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 was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countdown to my first year exam (it all comes back to this)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/06/02/countdown-to-my-first-year-exam-it-all-comes-back-to-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I admit it: I am nervous. Been there before, but I still feel the anxiety to sit an exam. Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t. I am supposed to be wiser, older (that&#8217;s for sure), more mature and self assured than before. But still I insist into getting myself into the verge of anxiousness again, clouded by [...]]]></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 has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From macro to micro (and backwards)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/05/23/from-macro-to-micro-and-backwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 21:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of building a terminal you always think of huge construction works. And yes, that&#8217;s the bulk of the budget, and sometimes the most spectacular part. But in a 80/20 rule fashion, that 20% ends up entailing 80% of the work. As I like to say, the devil is in the details.
For example, [...]]]></description>
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