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Coming back home

Nov 11, 2020
3 min

Coming back home

When I saw the red land from the plane, like a big island spreaded over the Indian Ocean, I cried. I even put the National Anthem on YouTube - not joking! - while I delighted myself looking at the Great Southland of The Holy Spirit. Yes, that’s another name for the land Down Under, or Australia as you know. Like a burnt skin with vains and wounds the land of Oz show off its magic red colours and burnt my heart with overflowing tears... I will never forget those images. I’ll

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How did I learn to learn

Oct 16, 2020
3 min

How did I learn to learn

I remember him arriving in the classroom with his folders under his arms, throwing those on the desk and getting to the black board, actually, a green board… erasing whatever it was written from previous classes, taking the chalk and start drawing the World Map by hand. Of course it was not precise, but that would give you the idea of where History events happened… and then he started… ”Senhores!” Something like Ladies and Gentlemen, because at that time, there were no politi

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Undone by the Amazon

Sep 23, 2020
3 min

Undone by the Amazon

The night is still high, guarded by a blanket of stars and planets that shine brightly, coloured in shades of white and yellow, sparkling in the distance... shooting stars... and the wine glasses that are still there, denouncing a night of much conversation, life stories, stories lived and dreams cherished by the deep night. The silence of the night is interrupted by the sounds of the forest animals that start to wake up... the sound is so loud now... cicadas, crickets, bird

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Communication: Adjusting your style in a Workplace and Virtual Environment

Sep 15, 2020
3 min

Communication: Adjusting your style in a Workplace and Virtual Environment

With the great challenges that we are facing, especially with the pandemic, connectivity has been essential for work and personal relationships. And in this challenging moment that we are living, with many “lives” and zooms, skypes, and all these communication tools, we got to realize that there are certain things that are irreplaceable, the human contact. And human contact may not be as it was before. The home office was already destined to increase considerably. However, th

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Who stays, who goes. How to make those tough decisions during and after the pandemic?

Aug 31, 2020
3 min

Who stays, who goes. How to make those tough decisions during and after the pandemic?

With all major changes happening in the midst of this global crisis, a significant change and readjustment on the way leaders and managers act and behave in making decisions is inevitable. One of the most relevant questions in the period is how to survive, and remain in the market. Consequently, how companies will hire, qualify and adjust their workforce to act amid the uncertainties of this new scenario since this process demands individual characteristics and competencies v

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What Extended DISC is and how it can help you make decisions during and after the pandemic

Aug 24, 2020
2 min

What Extended DISC is and how it can help you make decisions during and after the pandemic

The Coronavirus pandemic is shocking the world by forcing it to review religious, political and, especially, market views. The result of this shock is explicit in the complete change in habits and behaviours between people, companies and institutions. We do not know how long this will take if it will ever end, but one thing is certain: survival depends, as always, on adaptation. The ability to adapt to the individual and collectively, will determine which companies and instit

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Resilience

Apr 9, 2020
2 min

Resilience

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the Definition of resilience is: 1. the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation caused especially by compressive stress. 2. an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. The word resilience derives from the present participle of the Latin verb resilire, meaning "to jump back" or "to recoil." "act of rebounding". In physics, resilience is the ability of an elastic material

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