By Flávia Vianna Once upon a time there was a little girl named @littleredridinghood. Little red riding hood’s mother walked by her daughter’s bedroom and warned: Honey, your grandmother is sick. Let’s go visit her? So @littleredridinghood sadly glanced at the chaos of her flickering AIM, MSN, and twitter messages. She didn’t respond to her [...]
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By Mauro Segura This is a question that has always haunted me. It still does. The roots of the question go even deeper: what do I want to get out of life? This philosophical question should be a question everyone asks. I don’t believe in simply letting life take over, relying completely on destiny, and [...]
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By Rudney Pereira Junior Sometimes I feel like the “lost link” caught in the middle of generations. Like a fossil, stuck between the monkey and the human being. Archeologists searching for me in the heat of African deserts. If you’re into definitions, I belong to generation X. But I feel as though I’m part of [...]
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By Manuela Mesquita Have you heard of the Gen Y that doesn’t understand or know the meaning of processes? They are used to getting everything now. They like things to be easy and quickly resolved. You probably have. That’s where I’d like to start this post. A few weeks ago, I had a very unique [...]
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Por Eline Kullock I ask myself if what the virtual world calls “communities” are in fact communities. Communities, at least in the way I understand them, are groups in which members help each other, protect each other, and establish limits and norms. Communities are founded around a common cause, which holds them together. Thinking of [...]
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By Manuela Mesquita There’s a lack of ethics in the world currently, especially in regards to young people, who haven’t been raised to talk about ethics in the family or in school. This is the opinion of Yves de La Taille, a psychologist specializing in moral development. He is also a Professor at the Institute [...]
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By Manuela Mesquita I’ve always thought of my mother as a baby boomer, but a baby boomer who doesn’t fit the stereotype. My mother introduced me to e-mail, even though I’m part of generation Y. My mother got on MSN chat before I did. She knows way more about computers than I do. I always [...]
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By Eline Kullock In a country with serious corruption issues, like Brazil, it’s essential to talk about ethics. I remember reading a book by the journalist Cláudio Abramo titled “A Regra do Jogo” (“The Rule of the Game”) which really speaks to the point I’d like to convey through this post. Often we say that [...]
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By Eline Kullock As I follow the selective processes for trainees and interns in Brazil, I notice that there’s a very clear change in candidate behavior, which only confirms much of the discussion about Generation Y. Grupo Foco selects interns and trainees. Through this experience I’ve noticed a significant change in the behavior of Generation [...]
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By Tatiana Kielberman The other day, I read a poem by Luiz Fernando Veríssimo that could easily have been a mirror, reflecting my self. Working for the blog, I’m used to receiving many texts that talk about generational conflicts, and yet very few of them are straight to the point, or express in a direct [...]
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