Pedro Garcia Mota

Chapter 4 of the book takes on the Leading scale, analyzing how leadership is perceived on different cultures. Some expect the boss/leader to be someone distinct/above the rest while others prefer to have the boss as "one of them". Asian countries are found on the far right of the scale, where leadership tends to be … Continue reading The Culture Map – Chapter 4

This chapter focuses on the cultural differences of reasoning and persuading people from a cultural perspective. Principles-first reasoning derives conclusions or facts from general principles or concepts, in other words, there is a focus on defining a theory, concepts and standards before delivering a conclusion. Applications-first reasoning deliver conclusions based on a pattern of factual … Continue reading The Culture Map – Chapter 3

This chapter focuses on the evaluating scale and the differences between providing feedback between cultures, specially negative one. It states that more direct cultures tend to use upgraders, words preceding or following negative feedback that make it feel stronger. In the other hand, more indirect cultures tend to use downgraders, words that soften criticism. In … Continue reading The Culture Map – Chapter 2

I will start writing a series on the book The Culture Map by Erin Meyer. The book intends to give some insights on the challenges of cultural differences in the workspace. This is mostly an exercise for myself to help on learning and retaining the information presented on books a bit longer. Here is Erin's … Continue reading The Culture Map – Introduction and Chapter 1

I decided to start documenting some of the books I read in sort of a summary as blog posts. Hopefully this will help me with clearing my reading queue, retaining the information presented in those books for a bit longer, and understanding them a bit better. First post will come today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJRGARveVc

Known popularly as SQL databases, these exist since the 70s. PostgreSQL, MySQL and OracleDB are examples of relational databases.On this article I will try to give a short summary on their most relevant characteristics. Overview SQL databases, as the name implies, use a Structured Query Language to interact with it for creating, updating, deleting and … Continue reading Relational Databases

After the decision of moving back to Barcelona became a reality I started comparing the two cities a bit. Realizing that there are some things I will miss from Berlin. I won't talk about about the people, I already talked about that on the last post. So here are 5 things I will miss from … Continue reading Berlin x Barcelona

Almost 5 years since my last post. Regularly since that day I've thought that I should get back to writing, it is a fun and emotional experience to me at the end. What prompted me to start a blog in the first place was a big change in my life. I had recently moved to … Continue reading It’s been a long time…

Soooo guess who has now an A1 level in German? Yep...finally those 2 months of intensive course after work are finally over. Well actually that happened 2 weeks ago, but i took the last one of to rest and enjoy my free time after work . The A1 level it's not much, i can understand some … Continue reading Getting back to the routine

Hey everyone, after 2 consecutive weekends with visits in town i finally have some time to write again. This weekend i also did more for my summer vacations preparation. And that included buying the ferry tickets to travel between Athens and the islands and a new toy for the trip.  Yes i bought i GoPro....i'm … Continue reading Getting ready for Greece