About how to celebrate one year of marriage in 7 easy steps...
1. Decide that Sony Cybershot T300-B is the perfect gift for this occasion. Then discuss about this with one of your colleagues in US in order to get it directly from there (as the entire pack costs a lot less than it does in RO);
2. Place a reservation request on the exact apartment that you had for the wedding night (at the exact same hotel). Include in the request the exact same cake (a bit smaller though) and a bottle of champagne;
3. Wait for everything to come in place and announce that for that weekend you already have plans so nothing else should interfere with this;
4. Get into a huge fight and cancel everything;
5. Make up the following day and run for getting the plans back in action;
6. Get into the nearest cab and go there - make sure to get your WII console with you;
7. Finale: reach there, check in, get the champagne and the cake, play, relax, jacuzzi, take pictures with your new camera and the sky is the limit.
Happy anniversary!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Figures and percentages
About ways of seeing things...
During the past two weeks I have been closely connected to the business plan review process and all the involved activities: analyzing the global activity on the first half of 2008, justifying the number of hired persons, presenting the plans for the second half of 2008 and reducing budgeted costs (where from, only God knows). I have transformed live human beings into numbers - figures and percentages -; I have found numerous areas where the human effort was not properly measured; I have found a lack of transparency and visibility which led to my team having a bad image within the organization.
During this time I have found areas from which to cut peanuts. It seems that we need a certain ratios on paper so what I have done was to make sure that we reach the respective ratios. However the way it was put the entire idea was in a certain way... This lack of visibility which I have mentioned earlier it sure does impact a great deal over the current actions and credibility.
Nonetheless, things are moving into the good direction now - all we need is time to show it. And I still have something to learn where letting go is concerned.
BTW: have I told you that this week we will celebrate our first year of marriage?
During the past two weeks I have been closely connected to the business plan review process and all the involved activities: analyzing the global activity on the first half of 2008, justifying the number of hired persons, presenting the plans for the second half of 2008 and reducing budgeted costs (where from, only God knows). I have transformed live human beings into numbers - figures and percentages -; I have found numerous areas where the human effort was not properly measured; I have found a lack of transparency and visibility which led to my team having a bad image within the organization.
During this time I have found areas from which to cut peanuts. It seems that we need a certain ratios on paper so what I have done was to make sure that we reach the respective ratios. However the way it was put the entire idea was in a certain way... This lack of visibility which I have mentioned earlier it sure does impact a great deal over the current actions and credibility.
Nonetheless, things are moving into the good direction now - all we need is time to show it. And I still have something to learn where letting go is concerned.
BTW: have I told you that this week we will celebrate our first year of marriage?
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