FM Waves

Sometimes best solutions are gathered from other sectors, or other firms, it’s what we call benchmarking. Please let me propose some sort of animal benchmarking: could we learn anything from alpha dogs leadership???.

http://www.dogclub.co.uk/advice/leadership.php

I’ll try to analyse it later on. But it’s open for debate!.

Courtesy of ICIIL, who made the search on YouTube!.

Who said there were no videos on OR?. … ops!, it was me!. Sorry!.

It was a real good experience, although short, when years ago after gaining my degree and before leaving to the private sector I had the opportunity to lecture for 2 months. Now it’ s time for rejoin the Faculty… . I’m quite near of getting it! I’m really happy.

Once, during a seminar in Brazil I was questioned about ethics just because I said I didn’t want to (of course, anyone like myself would consider that a provocation for reaction…). Then, I said, I’m not a philosopher, but I won’t talk about it just because ethics and values are subjective so then not discussable.

Nowadays, trying to summarise my values and having read something about corporate responsibility I can say I’d have so a better anwser, based on ethinomics could be. I won’t discuss about my ethical views because they are probably so business-orientedly-distorted that everyone would consider them irrational. And I say: NO!, THEY AIN’T IT!. Why?: because of my value system, my moral code, and my view of making business. However, don’t get me wrong, I’m no angel (but no devil…).

No mates, this is not another post on sub-prime mortgages or how the hunger for housing investment has taken the building sector into trouble. It’s just a way of introducing my new role in life and professional career; recently I moved from Brazil back to old Spain, moved from my old job and company to other milestone in my roadmap. It’s a way of introducing a very simple technique I recently used, as well. Let’s see.

I’m in the process of locating a geographical site (don’t need to get more details) and although all of us were very sure where we needed it I decided to double check by means of a facility location program (specifically, the Fermat-Weber Problem), and using Google Earth for establishing the coordinates. Bull’s Eye!. Just where we thought!.

PD. It’s like a high school application, however I’m very excited since is my first real-world professional application of OR. Let’s go ahead!!!.