Posted in K|P|K by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Aug 23, 2008
That’s how I felt when I went to order our little, modest, cheap wall plate:
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why just the name and the professional bodies involved in the business (economists & industrial psychologists).
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why I just used other application rather than the usually pirated one; I used GIMP.
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why I just used a non-DIN format; I liked the Golden Ratio.
From August 2008 DAS newsletter (non-members won’t see this issue probably until next year) I can extract how ethics is again knocking on OR’s door (and economics).
A new book has been published on this matter (ethics). Professor Ron Howard and Clint Korver, in Ethics for the real world, introduce us to the "tricky" way of ethics in decision-making. I’ll put it on my wish-list!.
PS. Let’s internalise ethics into our preferences estructure, so when managing our companies and/or clients’ companies, we’ll be able to acomplish CSR for real.
Posted in consulting by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Apr 27, 2008
I have read quite a few texts on how to become a consultant in the late years, and some would recommend you need the following (right-hand side on the equations is mine):
So, where’s the need for "gray hair"? (trust me, some articles use it as a metaphor for the equation). Don’t matter!: At my thirty-odd age I have some of my own already!!!… and the rest.
Posted in consulting by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Mar 6, 2008
You’re right, that’s just Francisco having a laugh again and again! You’ll be with me if I tell you that almost everybody relates "open source" to "free as in free beer" (in Spanish there’s no need for disambiguation, since free as in freedom is not homonimous to free as free beer).
Well…, I’ve recently been reading some posts (here and here you have a couple split by an ocean but not the same language; surely there’ll be loads of them) regarding (unnoticed) "free consulting".
Consultants, take care. "Open Source Consulting" should be free… as in freedom, not to get free drinks.
As Rev King, I have a dream…, but it’s nothing to do with the civil rights (although I do dream of equality). It’s got to do with OR. Time ago I started a website, kProductivity.com, and a blog, FM Waves (this one), just for empowering my hobby (OR)…, I talked about my Way of Life:
"kProductivity is the alter ego for Francisco Marco-Serrano and his desires for improving the productivity of the world he lives in. Francisco Marco-Serrano has a degree on Economics…"
…but since I read the words of Carrie Beam, I started to be rather jealous (in a healthy way). Is there a possibility for a "Way of live" to become a "way of making a living"?. I’ve been spinning around like hell, working for others, working with the family, and/or lecturing…, what I said, a scramble… until now.
