Foredeck, Valencia
Obra das "David Chipperfield Architects" e "b720 Arquitectos",
o edifício "Veles e Vents" em Valência, é o edifício sede da America's Cup.
Obra das "David Chipperfield Architects" e "b720 Arquitectos",
o edifício "Veles e Vents" em Valência, é o edifício sede da America's Cup.
"Stand still.
Breath in.
You don't know
Somebody's aching
Keeping it all in
Somebody won't let go
Of his heart but the truth is
It's painless
Letting your love show
Break down. Give me some time
I don't want the fear to confuse you
Right now, it's so wrong
But maybe it's all in the future
with someone like you
Stand still.
Breath in."
Love show, Skye
Successful careers develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person into an outstanding performer.
What are my strengths? The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis: comparing your expectations with your results.
Discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it.
It is equally essential to remedy your bad habits. Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains. Ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
For example, feedback will reveal when the problem for your effectiveness and performance is a lack of courtesy — that is, a lack of manners. Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. Manners, simple things like saying “please” and “thank you”, knowing a person’s name or asking after her family, enable two people to work together whether they like each other or not. Bright people, especially bright young people, often do not understand this.
How do I perform? Like one’s strengths, how one performs is unique. It is a matter of personality. Whether personality be a matter of nature or nurture, it surely is formed long before a person goes to work. Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform. A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs.
Am I a reader or a listener? How do I learn?
Do I work well with people or am I a loner?
If you do work well with people, in what relationship: as subordinate, as team member, as coach and mentor, as...?
Do I produce results as decision maker or as an adviser?
Do I perform well under stress or do I need a highly structured and predictable environment?
Do I work best in a big organization or a small one?
To be able to manage yourself, you finally have to ask, what are my values? Ethics requires that you ask yourself, what kind of person do I want to see in the mirror in the morning?
Organizations, like people, have values. To be effective in an organization, a person’s values must be compatible with the organization’s values. They do not need to be the same, but they must be dose enough to coexist. Otherwise, the person will not only be frustrated but also will not produce results."
Pronto, começou! Começou a guerra civil sobre o próximo referendo.
Contrastando com a apatia com que usualmente lidamos com tudo, ocasionalmente encetamos umas guerras civis em que nos digladiamos heroicamente, com sangue, suor e glória.
Nem me vou meter nessa confusão.
Já que os políticos - leia-se Eng. António Guterres - não souberam decidir, a população irá novamente pronunciar-se.
O meu comentário refere-se unicamente ao texto da pergunta. E quanto a esta é curioso verificar que se discutem algumas questões particulares do texto, suavizando ou enfatizando determinadas expressões, procurando sub-repticiamente vincar uma determinada tendência. Reservamos a nossa atenção para as questões secundárias e deixamos o erro de base incólume.
A pergunta não pode ser: “Concorda com…?”, por ser notoriamente tendenciosa.
Antes, terá que ser: “Concorda ou não com…?”. Pode parecer um pequeno pormenor, mas faz toda a diferença.