Dear visitor,

Good morning and welcome to today's Newsletter.

As always, you can watch a video in the section on the right. I am sure that it will make you smile or even laugh. More importantly, you will get back to work feeling much, much better!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our surveys in the last Newsletter. Over one hundred people! We carefully analyzed what people had to say. As a result, here are the two programs that we have to offer you:

1. Monthly: Conference call and Case study workshops

2. Summer Intensive: Conference call and Case studies

In case you missed the surveys, you can see the results here:

Summer intensive survey: see results

Monthly workshop survey: see results

Even now, you can still contribute to the survey and have your say here:

Summer intensive survey: summer survey

Monthly workshop survey: monthly workshops survey

The CaixaForum visit? Well, if you are curious about our trip to CaixaForum, you should know it went well. In fact, it went very well, indeed!

There were 11 of us, and 9 of us were able to stay for lunch. Conversation ranged across centuries, languages and continents. Everyone had a good time.

The next visit will be to La Pedrera. Here are the details:

Barcelona: Visit to La Pedrera March 2009 : Josep Mompou Exhibition

The Gospel Viu concert at L'Auditori was also a great event and great fun. I don't know how many of our subscribers were able to go. I know at least one of our readers was there. Maria Alvarez, all the way from Girona! If you were also there, please drop me a line.

Tips

Stress and pressure :

Take a deep breath

The true nature of change is wild energy. The best leaders don’t attempt to control the winds of change, but like sailors, they control themselves and seek to capture the power that is present in unfolding situations.

All extraordinary leaders exhibit deep presence under pressure. Barak Obama gave us a recent example with his courageous speech on race. Not only was there wisdom in his words, but even more striking was his calm under fire. The military calls it command presence and they develop it at the War College. 'Sully' Sullenberger did it recently when he saved...
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Humour

Real fun

A Scotsman is stranded on a deserted island, all alone for ten years. One day a gorgeous woman wearing a wet suit and scuba suit arrives at the island. She comes up to him and she says, "How long has it been since you had a cigarette?"

"Ten years!" he answers.

She reaches over, unzips the waterproof pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh cigarettes. He takes one, lights it, takes a long drag and says...
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Any comments? You can email them to me at the bottom of the page.

I would very much appreciate your feedback about this Newsletter and any questions or suggestions that you have. Also, please let me know if you like the exercises that I started to include in the last two or three Newsletters. Do feel free to write in your own language, or in English if you prefer.

Kind regards,
Albert