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“Saudade” is an untranslatable Portuguese term that refers to the melancholic longing or yearning. A recurring theme in Portuguese and Brazilian literature, “saudade” refers to a sense of loneliness and incompleteness. “Saudade” can more casually be used to say that you miss someone or something, even if you’ll see
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Vacilando is a Spanish term for the act of wandering when the experience of travel is more important than reaching a specific destination. John Steinbeck (in Travels With Charley: In Search of America, 1962) wrote: In Spanish there is a word for which I can’t find a counterword in
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Sobremesa - after-lunch conversation around the table. When you stay at the table after lunch in order to savor a final course of stimulating conversation, you are indulging in sobremesa.
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Verschlimmbessern - To make something worse in an honest but failed attempt to improve it
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Kaizen is a Japanese term and method meaning ‘change for the better’ or ‘continuous improvement.’ It’s a method for transforming habits incrementally, one step at a time, in order to continuously improve. It is also one of the base principles of agile. No, We Won’t Have a Video
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The German word waldeinsamkeit consists of two words joined together. Wald means forest, and einsamkeit means loneliness or solitude. It hints at both the feeling of being alone in the woods and also at a peaceful oneness with nature. Thought of the day: The foundation of maturity: Just because it’
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Meriggiare An Italian verb meaning to rest or relax at midday, usually in a shady spot on a sunny day. From ‘meriggio’ meaning ‘midday’. The advice of the week: Management provides strategic guidance and support only. Tell the teams what you need, trust them to figure out how to execute.
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Goya Goya is an Urdu word for the moment when fantasy is so realistic that it temporarily becomes reality It refers to the total suspension of disbelief you get with good, powerful storytelling. This is how vision should be communicated. The advice of the week: Train employees well enough they
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Desenrascanço is a Portuguese word meaning the action to artfully disentangle oneself from a troublesome situation in an improvised, nonstandard manner. MacGyver utilized this skill every time he averted disaster with nothing but a bent paper clip and a chewing gum wrapper. We also do it with our code right
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Wait, why am I getting an email from leadership.garden?! Relax, it’s still me, Csaba – I’ve moved my newsletter and blog over to leadership.garden and in the future ochronus.online will serve as a profile page (work in progress). I have some bigger plans with Leadership Garden
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Wabi-Sabi (侘寂) – This is a beautiful Japanese concept that represents finding beauty in imperfections. It allows us to accept that growth and decay are a natural process. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The advice of the week: Selfish
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Gökotta is an untranslatable Swedish word, which essentially means “to rise at dawn in order to go out and listen to the birds sing”. Isn’t that a beautiful concept? I wonder how much time do you give yourself in the morning, dear reader, to start your day properly, to