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С уважением,

Адвокат Mark Uzoma.

rent

Looking at the nubers of the the big companies and to imagine the huge amount of rent costs I realized that any corporation is just a group of individs who consolidated their assets. If everyone whould have rented a working place or an office it would not be expensive at all.  this thought led me to idea that all the companies are the artificial units created by people in order to achieve their goals with smaller costs. In order to solve the organisational problems.

mentality in countries.

The mentality of people from "young countries" like America or Australia is easy to understand. Millions of emigrants can get that and comply. It is more difficult to understand the spirit of countries with long history and rich cultural background. To understand USA is like to understand a child, to understand Germany is like to understand a mature person. And second is much more difficult...
And yes, it is impossible to feel the country for real without knowing the language...

about Fridays

I am always afaid to work in the company where i will wait for Friday.
I think it is terrible doing 5 days a week the activity you do not like and trying to do forget that the next 2 days. It is  not the right way to live. I am used to always loving whatever I do. Even my jobs. I did like EY even I had to work so long, Yes, at some point I stopped likeing it because I got to know enough to become bored.
And now, when I am looking for a new job it is much more important for me than money to like what I do and to enjoy life all 7 days a week

Reading on another language with translator is like having sex using condomes.

strategy + marketing

What our professors are telling us - that it is really very good for the company to be consistent in the things it is doing. And at my exam I wrote that consistensy is one of the key success factors, got an A and was very happy.
But if I am thinking about the topic I am not sure in that at all. If everything around is changing your consistency is not that good.
If you want to be have a consistant success you probably do not need to be consistent in your actions. Maybe even flexibility is better to some extent. If you want to have a sustainably high level of customer service, for example,you need to change your operations all the time in order to satisfy new requirements.

friendship

Is it possible that after some events you just stop liking a person completely? For example, you have a friend and then she does something and after that day she becomes an animy. No way back. For example, she started to date with your ex. Or used the things you said to her against you. And usually this person does not even realise what she has done. Or realise and think that you are so stupid that have not even noticed anything. She continues to behave like she is your friend. But you know that this person is consideres you as a source of benefits, base for comparison, competitior, whatever...But not a friend....
But well, the event is happened. Now you know the situation. And you are trying to avoid this person as much as possible. If she already does the things like that who cares if she understands the reason of your ignorance or not.

it can be a nice beginning of a new book...

Чудесная погода - сказал граф и овладел графиней прямо на подоконнике.


А в это время из леса выезжал паровоз в топке которого догорал Сергей Лазо
 
and in English:
- What a wonderful weatehr! -said the Lord and took his wife on the window...
At the same time from the forest ran the train in the furnace of which burned  the rests of Sergey Laso.
 
very intriquing ))) lol

a couple of thoughts about trust

              I was surprised that the majority of people consider trust only like something positive. They can't even assume that trust can be not that positive sometimes.

              What about a friend who is trusting you too much and telling you all the details of her last affair? Sometimes you do not want to listen to the person who is trusting you because it becomes too much. You understand that she will never listen to you and does not really care about your opinion. She just uses you because she cant keep her emotions to herself. And what can you do?

              Or  a man who fell in love with you when you were about to break up. And what are you supposed to do when he tells you: I love you and please do not hurt me. You can't break up because now you feel responsible for him. At least not immediately after those words. Yes, you respect his feelings, but does he respect yours?

              Or any person who is getting to comfortable and abuses your relationships. A roommate who goes out of the shower naked? Is not it the sign of trust when people do not afraid you their imperfections?

              What is positive about that additional responsibility you never wanted?

half-positive feedback

Did not get an offer from the company I wanted. They said that I am very good, but not outstanding. Also I can call them in 3 months and then they will decide.
In the beginning I was pretty upset about this fact. But on the other hand if I got an offer now I would relax and did not look for a job anymore. And in this case I would not have a base for comparison and probably would miss something better.
So, anyway thank you to the company for a half-positive feedback and let's see what my next steps will be.

"Сначала они тебя не замечают, потом смеются над тобой, затем борются с тобой. А потом ты побеждаешь" (Махатма Ганди).

dilemma

Is a negative experience is also good as an experience or it would be better if it never happened?

social projects ranking model (the model I designed and would like to test empirically)

my favorite godess

and 2nd favorite:

will add description later

the theory of love (attention) from the recepient point of view.

             I do not remember where I heard this story. Like several years ago a group of American businessmen started a join venture with one Arab Sheikh. He came to US and got a crash on one low educated but pretty sexy blond secretary. She was in the end of her twenties, sexy and married.  She did not care of that, but Americans willing make the Sheikh feek in their country as at home paid to the blondy additional bonus in order to make her more friendly. As a result she had a passionate affair with the Sheikh and the join venure was prosperous as well.
             At some point the Sheikh had to returt to the Emirates and continue the business from over there. And his main condition was that he wanted to take that blondy with him. I do not remember the exact reason but that woman could not go to the Emirates. Probably she requested from the  businessmen to much money for such a business trip.
             The Sheikh got disappointed, the business went wrong, American businessmen got concerned. They invited the Sheikh to discuss the situation and discovered that really he did not care which blondy will go with him. So Americans just picked up another woman, who agreed to travel to the Emirates for more reasonable amount.
             Now the dillemma. If you think that you can execute power because the person is enjoying your attention (love) there is always a trick. Unless you are really unique and can set up a benchmark for this person. The strategy for the recipient of attention (love) can be described with the following matrix:

             I would put it like that. The majoruty is average people with medium level of attention (the even bigger majority is ignored) , they can be converted to average ppl with sustainably high level of attention and interchangeble.

             Also let's evaluate the value (as increase of self-confidence for example) of external attention (you may call that attention - love) for the recepient of attention:

           At vertical axis is the significance of people, we can notice that the more perceived significance of the people  the more valuable is their attention.

           Negative attention is hatrid and all the negative emotions people may have toward the receipient. It is difficult to have really significant enimies, but it might be enjoyable to have insignificant enimies which will be a source of energy and happiness for the receipient. If the significance of the person giving attention is really low, it does not matter for the receipient if he/she loves of hates him. The top point is a benchmark and can be changed. It is a perceived maximum of the quality of the person executing attention (love).

             If we go back to the example of Sheikh the objective level of significance of the blondy was about 10, but for the Sheikh perceived level of her significance was about 20. Initially American businessmen (including the blondy as well) were overestimating her level of significance. They were thinking that it was close to the benchmark. But after they figured her real value they pretty fast solved the problem. The problem is that the person who lost in this case was Sheikh, who overestimated her real value.  According to the strategy matrix he was in the middle point of that. But who knows...Maybe he saved transaction costs, or maybe the business with Americans was profitable for him as well.

feedback

When I was a kid I was always upset when I got to know that people were talking something bad about me.
When I became a teenager I avoided to hear people gossips not to be upset.
Then I stopped care and ignored their not always constructive criticism.
In the beginning of 20s I was forming my opinion of people based on their critits in my address.
Now I agree with what they are saying, accept my drawbacks and think what advantages I can get out of that.

german latterns

               She was looking at the window at that snow falling down and not melting...At the sparkling road with dirty cars, at the dim yeallow laterns and changing traffic lights of the crossroad...
               Everything was so usuall...The world was living by its standard rules, so standard and usual that people forgot the meaning of all these principles. They follow them automatically, without even single thought, like animals moving by reflexes they would probably prefer never to have. What is her main instinct? Simply self-protection like for the wildest animals? And if it has psychological nature, that is even worse...
               For some moment she imagined her life which also looked very undefined and unclear as if it was lightend by those yellow laterns. Yellow laterns which are made by Germans to save energy. So did she. She tried not to bother to comprehend the results of her actions and absence of actions (which is even worse when the action is required).
               She knew that as soon as she start to change something around the world will punish her. And from her past experience she had an idea how sevire this punishment can be. She knew that if she does nothing, the curcumstances can change themselves. And maybe it will be favourable to her... Maybe not, but inaction and sweet feeling of ignorance would at the end hurt maybe not her, she is ready to that, but the people who had no idea of some future event. Maybe not all the people, one person...
               Does it matter how many? Can she use an excuse that the person who will suffer is imperfect as well? Can she convince herself that the person who potentionally might be hurt would do the same she is doing? And after that close the eyes, look at another more optimistic direction and forget about the whole issue for a while.
               Like a poor family in a story of the Russian shriftsteller Zoshenko. They got electricity to their room and understood how miserable they are. They realised that the room requires repairment. But they had no money for that and decided to live in a darkness, without electricity. To live ignoring the problem like they did before.
               Maybe it is a way. But if she can accept the sufferning of a single person (potentional sufferning of course) because she does not want to suffer herself, does that mean that she is a bad person? Or she is unperfect just like all people around. Is she sure that she wants to change world? To change the world starting with herself?
               She knows what she will do. She moved, closed the curtains not to see the yellow german latterns and went to bed thinking about completely differnt things.

Itaka

           Was in German theater... Not that I am really impressed. Sometimes it is difficult to find the difference between the art (talant) and strange mix of desire to be original and modern.  Honestly I did not really distinguish today what it was -  the talant or the absence of that.
           Actually I would opt for the absence but some people said that it was really cool, so I am trying to justify what I saw.  Well, the play was about that people who immigrated to Germany and trying to get used to the country.  People with their advantages and unperfections, opportunities and fears...Regular, not perfect, not positive, not negative international people ...
           What I like that at the end they were say telling their names and deliberately lied from which countries they are. That was very cool and funny.
           So they were:
Indonesian girl (called herself Thai. she reminded me an Indian godess, do not remember her name but the one with the tongue...)
Argentinian man (showed hot dances)
A man from Iran (I was really sure that he was Turkish, because the song he sang sounded like Tarkan)
Brasilian man (called himself as "Sascha aus Russland", very good body)
A man from Danmark (called himself French and Sweeden) -(the one who was yelling "Frauen, Fleisch" and doing sex-imitating movement).
           So, it was really a mix of cultures (a lot of ethnical stuff, for example: the girl was throwing the flowers which was very beautiful or long dialogues hold on different languages). And the main point of that was how difficult to get used to another country and do not lose your identity and uniqueness.

you create your own universe...

              Sometimes I feel so lonely that I cant think about anything else... Usually I am trying to kill that feeling with meeting with my friends, dating with a man, reading books, watching movies... whatever it takes....
            Well, even more, not to be lonely (read bored) I am studying foreign languages, building career, traveling...
             It is interesting that talking to another human does not make you less lonely. Well, people can get some relief but some people are not that interesting, another people are not that interesting when you get to know them better. Even interesting people can't solve all your problem, becouse nobody knows better than you what you want.
            Sometimes I think that only set of interesting activities and hobbies can save me from the lonleness and boredom. If I am engaged into them together with interesting people it is amazing. If no I have to plan out my way in the space alone. And during this way I meet people who are moving in the same direction...
           At some point I am getting tired from the new hobby and change the direction. In a couple of weeks I feel like I am surrownded by completely different people.
           Old friends stay of course. But it is impossible to save that old connection we had when we were doing things together... It is sad, but anyway you do not have a lot time to regret, you are already in a completely new universe - universe you created yourself. Which you based on your own choices and decisions...
            Probably five years ago you have seen your life completely different. Probably you planned that with more or less ambitions. Probably you were thinking that different people will be around. And after that you ask yourself if that was really you who is in charge of your life. You and your real priorities or the chain of spontaneous decisions you had to make because of the curcumstances?

AND God stepped out on space,
And He looked around and said,
“I’m lonely—
I’ll make me a world.”
And far as the eye of God could see
Darkness covered everything,
Blacker than a hundred midnights
Down in a cypress swamp. James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

just some curious facts:

1) Today a man with MBA degree, 3 years of work experience and wgo is going to get married soon asked me if the Soviet Union still exists. Good looking man btw...No comments any more :-)
2) Since I am always getting an eye infections here it occured to me that maybe Germany is called so because there are so many germs here :-) \no offence it is just a joke\
3)  "Nobody knows anything... it’s a guess – and, if you’re lucky, an educated one." (Goldman, 1983)
Found this amazing quotation during my marketing research....so true...You never have all the relevant information in advance. And that's why the most of choices we are making in our life are guesses, so we try to justify them using our "not that perfect, but we are not gonna to admit that" judgement and the survey of close people who usually have no idea what we really want". That's a scary thought.
4) even the language bareer could not hide his stupidity (q -mine)
5) What an artificial limitation! (about the 2-dimensional model in perception - marketing)
6) She speaks like a soviet communist in american cartoons (about my accent)
7) Goodwill is a result of poor negotiations (q - Pr. Sri)
8) Man should never get too comfortable with women. (q- Anthony)
9) I am not surprised about the content of feedback, I am surprised that people are giving feedbacks this time (q - Zhenya)
What I am surprised that some people are asking for feedback :-) Usually those are men who want to show off))))
10) Borat is an American movie about Americans. But the producer could not really allow himself to tell that directly. That's why he had to pick a random country and it happened to be Kazakhstan.