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Living our values!!
This week Mr. Gregory Stephen Brown left Costa Rica after working for serval days with Jose Belfort on Strategic Planning for VERTEX-Organizational Bridges work in Costa Rica and in various cities throughout the United States. VERTEX-Organizational Bridges Jose Belfort and Gregory Stephen Brown serve as Executive Directors for the Global Chamber of Commerce for (San Jose, Costa Rica and Kansas City, Missouri) and are preparing launch plans that will help to increase global business opportunities for companies and should result in increased employment opportunities and economic investment for Costa Rica and the Metropolitan Area of Kansas City, Missouri in the United States During this week we also visited FUNIPAR, an NGO in Cartago which helps students with special needs obtain a quality education. Our service to provide them a technical support to develop a fund development and fundraising campaign to obtain grant money from the United States and European Foundations, Corporations and Individual Donors to increase quality educational services and workforce employment development opportunities to students with special needs....
“CHANGE OF ATTITUDE”
Always in reference to the presidential message of September 15: Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís points to the need for a “CHANGE OF ATTITUDE”, and understands that changes can not be only cosmetics, profound changes are needed that will promote justice social prompt. Lets understand the difference between Skill and Behavior: Exemplifying; knowledge of several languages does not necessarily make us good communicators, being the attitude we adopts where lies our true competitive advantage. Do you understand? We live in a system of rights and responsibilities, not just rights; our people also have to be re-educated, with the example of our leaders. We are here to make a difference!!...
“WE HAVE TO OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE; A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE IS NEEDED”
“WE HAVE TO OVERCOMING FEAR OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE; A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE IS NEEDED” Remarks by the President of Costa Rica, Mr. Luis Guillermo Solís, during celebration of 15 September (Independence Day). Consider: Governments need to respond with agility to changes demanded by society and the challenges are very complex; poverty, unemployment, fiscal deficit and many more. There are 4 aspects that determine whether an organization is agile or not: 1. The knowledge and mastery of the technical aspects 2. Processes 3. Leadership 4. Culture In this dynamic, organizations act as icebergs in the great ocean of circumstances: While the Technical Processes are judged by the perceived public value, the Leadership and Culture are forces with deep roots in the complex institutional history of the country. Important investment are focus for developing “hard skills” (technology and processes), while soft skills (Leadership and Culture) lie submerged in furtherance of improvisation and short-termism. Is it lack of leadership, or excess ballast after 30 years of succession of crises by the governments of Costa Rica? To get different results we have to learn how to do things differently. Renewed approaches to segments diverse and complex to build new institutional values, with people, to restore the spirit that made Costa Rica an example to the world. The country has still untapped human resources as well as specific knowledge to boost the exchange with robust skills. Rather than training programs, a set of new values is needed and draw the roadmap that will define the best leadership from our leaders. We can!...
