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One of the skills I developed the most while at the European Space Agency was how to manage my time, have EXTREME respect for others time and ALWAYS have clear agendas and objectives for meetings.
Translating this into actions:
Nobody would wait for you if you were more than 5 minutes late for a meeting.
Every meeting would have a concise agenda with clearly stated objectives.
People would terminate a meeting at the exact time it was scheduled...
This is my first post in Portuguese ever. I´ve decided so since it is about a Portuguese attitude that I would be to embarrassed to write about in English.
Em Setembro 2009 foram abertos concursos no âmbito do Quadro Regional de Enquadramento Nacional (QREN) que "visam a constituição ou reforço de Fundos de Capital de Risco (FCR)". Mais informação aqui.
Com um total de investimento de cerca de 150 milhões de euros, pareceu-me uma excelente iniciativa e que iria certamente incentivar a inovação em Portugal e a criação de novas empresas de base tecnologica já que existir...
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EU citizens are well aware of the financial stress the Euro is in. There are many factors that can be pointed as causes to this situation, ranging from the still ongoing financial crisis to the speculation against the euro to a fundamental breakdown of the EU Dream as pointed by Gideon Rachman in this FT article.
Hit particularly hard are, obviously, the less prepared countries such as the now famous PIIGS, of which I belong the the P. I am certainly not the one to judge the analist that, in the...
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