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Projects and life have a lot in common
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When I had no money, I spent my days around people who criticized others. ​ Failures focus on hating. ​ Failures assume malice. ​ Failures obsess over what they don’t like. ​ ​ Successful people always find a reason to go further. ​ And the explanation is simple: Because slavery takes away the heaviest burden in the universe: responsibility. ​ That’s why even when a slave escapes and accidentally makes money, they immediately search for something new to enslave themselves to: meetings, commitments, micro-management. ​ Look… This is simple. ​ ​ That’s the first thing I’d do if I were living in slavery. ​ ​ The third? Learn. Want more. ​ Yes. I talk about life. Your life. My life. And projects. PPP projects. Any kind of project. Don’t pass the hot potato. Assume your responsibility. Learn. Thrive. People still believe that to learn you need to suffer. ​ But no. ​ It’s more simpler than that. ​ Lessons about life and projects below.
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The more cases I review from my advisor’s position, the more amazed I’m about people repeating the same mistakes over and over. One of the most astonishing, under-focused risks in infrastructure PPPs is land availability and land cost escalation. Too often, governments assume or implicitly transfer the risk of land value increases to the private concessionaire. Please, don’t. I come from Spain and one of my first babies were the R5 and R3 radial roads, at the time ACS’s concessions. And...
Recently, I assisted with horror to a meeting where I was told that the respondents of an RFP had no limit of pages in their offers. They asked my opinion. My answer was graphic. If I was the bid manager and I had a gun, I would use it. No limits. OMG. The last shoes that you want to wear are those of the bid managers in the RFP. Imagine yourself with that burden. No limits. And the risk of these guys awarding a several billions dollars contract by the weight of the paper brought in the...
The worst thing that can happen to a man, woman or chair is becoming civilized.Because then spending time in an office meeting people they don’t like and doing things that they hate under halogen lights feels acceptable.And using a ThinkPad with Windows. And preparing a PowerPoint. And eating the daily lunch special.And being afraid to ask for a raise. And when you point it out to him (to her, to it, to them) he tells you that “it is what it is,” that “what can you do,” that “life is like...