They are meant to solve disputes among those who are leveled below them in the corporate organisational hierarchy. To evaluate all their problems becomes a burden, because each individual expects to be treated as extraordinary individual, and while they might have a special attitude, they should not be leveled higher than their co-workers unless these are proovingly considered to be incapable of keeping up with their supposed-to-be extraordinary teammates. And what happens if the others catch up and figure out that one wants to get raised higher than they are? They push this special one down with any argumentation they can find useful. Managing is a war on a thin line between the good and evil, and you have to treat them like sheep in your herd. Being this shepherd, you’ll give them a long and prosper life… until you fire them like lambs to the slaughter.

This weekend was quite a blast. Already on Friday and Saturday, Katharina and I were occupied with the Powerpoint presentation for the Spanish Language course. It was quite annoying to transform our written term paper for the purpose of the presentation, however we managed to hold our presentation just a few minutes ago this monday morning – esta listo!

For entertaining moments on Sunday, our Party-Propaganda Team met again: After fetching some information for the Regional Development Election Project course for preparation, we made some photos of our whole team (Torben, Kristin, Katharina and myself) before we started to write our structure and the first issues to our party’s political manifesto. We’re not finished yet, but we plan to get it done already this evening.

Kat and I were working for more than 4 hours on our term paper for Desarollo Regional 2 with the temporary title „Intercultural Communication in Business“. Unfortunately, it’s meant to be 8-10 pages in total with a maximum of 21000 words – I believe this limitation will restrict the entire issue which is quite important for management. We’ve managed to work out our structure and nearly finished the first part about the definition of culture and the preception of culture leading towards communicative issues. In the end, we plan to roughly compare the approach found in the Cultural Dimensions of Hofstede and Trompenaar with the cross-culture approach by Richard D. Lewis found in his book „When Cultures Collide: Managing Across Cultures„. I plan to publish our German original and our spanish translation of the work once we’re done.