The Next Decision

How do you get rid of the fear of being wrong?

I will answer this question with another one: What really happens when we make a bad decision?

We make another decision, and then another one, and then another and then another. A negotiation is a series of decisions. When - not if, but when- you make a bad decision, you simply follow it with a better one. Understanding this simple lesson will liberate you as a negotiator and decision maker.

As a flight instructor once told me during my training "you sure make some bad decision in the airplane, but don't worry, as you as you at least do make decisions, we can fix the bad ones."

Take responsibility for bad decisions, learn from it and then move on. Embrace the failure, and soldier on without fear because you are only one decision away from getting back in track.

This attitude and this approach take a lot of discipline and a lot of self-confidence.

Being right is very important to most of us. It is a powerful need, and like all needs, it must be overcome.

Real leadership involves having the courage to face bad decision and getting back in track, overcoming the need of being right, and learn from bad decision making.

Leadership is not-perservering in bad decisions (or non decisions).

Giving up the illusion that we can control the future is a very liberating moment, all we can do is give ourselves the capacity to the uncertainty, the creation of that capacity is called strategy

Entrepreneurs, directors and consultants.

Being an entrepreneur is different from working as a director for someone else's business, or consulting another business about strategy - what the business should do in order to solve a problem, improve efficiency, or simply saving resources for the sake of the bottom-line.

Entrepreneurs do take decisions and their primary task is make deals that stick while risking the bottom line of their organization.

I wonder how one can feel ready and be ready for starting off as an entrepreneur or consult an existing and running business without the practical experience coming from the real world.

Entrepreneurship is not related with what you know, but whom you know and your capacity of taking the right decision, tens, sometimes hundreds of times on a daily basis.

Your gmat score is irrelevant to who you really are, which is pure, innocent, intent-less awareness.

After having transformed into a human dustbin of everyone's pearls of wisdom I finally closed the door to the outside world and started fetching the information I have absorbed to plan my GMAT hacking strategy.

An amazing piece of advice I have just found in this article:

http://www.beatthegmat.com/thank-you-btg-t61369.html#272482

Your GMAT score is irrelevant to who you really are, which is pure, innocent, intent-less Awareness.

- I know my weaknesses by now and have a quite definite idea of the areas I will target.

- Writing and being present in blogs will help me refining and polishing my style.

- Will keep a journal to stay motivated and keep track of my state of mind.

My strategy will be a mix of the most relevant techniques used by successful folks at beating the gmat, and I want to belong to the club.

Stay tuned

Manu e Deno MBAs

Caro Deno, this will be our shared space for postings on our MBA search:

Dopo due settimane a passate a casa, ritorno a alla mia seconda casa, Buenos Aires.

Continuo a chiedermi cosa in realta mi spinga a restare qua, lontano dalla mia famiglia, lontano dalla mia ragazza, facendo una lavoro che paga zero, e in un settore che non è praticamente quello per il quale inizialmente avevo levato l'ancora.

After some time wondering about the fabric of my motivation toward this adventure, I am finally realizing that I am the biggest loser ever...concierge services? gastronomy services? where are those bottom lines for which I put my financial and overall life in jeopardy for ?

I am tired now, after a long journey...

...will write again tomorrow, I made a resolution to blog, write and confront myself with the virtual paper at least once a week. To record my thoughts.

Goodnite folks

De vuelta y media

Almost 2 years later after my last words on this page, I am continuing this journal for myself. I will deliberately not give explanation of what is being written as far as common sense and language used are concerned, this is my journal, and mine only.

What do you want?

...What do you want?

...W-h-a-t d-o y-o-u w-a-n-t?

This is the question that while your are reading is being asked over a billion times in approximately 6000 languages.

"What do you want?" is the question I have been trying to answer in the last six months.

But I was not alone in my quest, in fact, this is the inquiry I addressed to hundreds of people around the world...in the last six months...

....What do the farmer from Salta's province in Argentina,
the taxi drivers from Montevideo, Bangkok, Cairo and Rome,
the investment banker from Manhattan's Lexinghton E/24th,
the vintner from Toronto,
the policeman from Niagara,
the bartender of Luis's Café in Buffalo Bust station,
the Spanish-illiterate aboriginals from the Andean regions of Peru,
the Bolivian miner,
the Chilean globetrotter,
the Mexican young film director from Los Angeles,
the Brazilian phisio-therapist from San Paolo,
the Burman field guide in Yangon district,
the women Tonie Sap floating village in Cambodia,
the Libyan pilgrim on his mission across all the mosques of the Muslim world,
the Jewish orthodoxes crying on the wailing wall in Jerusalem during Passover,
the Thai Buddhist monks Chang Mai's temples
and many more like them coming from the most unconventional upbringings and all the walks of life have in common?

Looking back at me with quizzical expressions, eventually backfiring likely predictable questions, they all failed in giving me definite, categorical, palpable, precise and full answer.

I considered the likelihood that we need uncertainty and material comfort, fleeting happiness, health and wealth to carefully disguise what the real sense of the journey is...

...I would argue that our relationships with others, our possessions and goods are our finest, most credible expressions of who we are and what we offer, nothing else compares.

But what if, way beyond everything else, the primary and intimate desire that makes us feel extraordinary self - accomplished stems from finding what our mission is and striving hard for it, following our bliss? ...the bliss, that unique point where talents and desires intersect, putting us in a kind of track that has been there all the time, waiting for us, making the life that we ought to be living, the one we are living...

Unfortunately, the only ANSWER I came up with is just that warm and comfortable feeling that results from asking only those questions we can answer...

In that case, "What do you want?" is the most conventional and seemingly trivial question ever asked.

That being said, if you can do any better I would really much like to hear from you.

The bliss is a passionate calling, not an "obligation to be happy" accepting whatever comes down the pike: no matter what cards life deals to us, we should HONOR it, however outlandish it may seem...