… And if I look up
How did all this start? I seem to remember a massage table conversation with a patient who had been referred to by another one, because that’s what my job is like as a physiotherapist.
DECIDE to run…through the mountains
This coming Sunday, 16 June, Mario Yllera and Rafa Collado will start running… Start? As if it were so simple. On Sunday they will be surrounded by people in the Alpine Marathon of Madrid, with the support of sponsoring companies such as Decide and apparently even with good weather; but as far as running…they haven’t stopped doing it in the last two years.
The Food Bank of Madrid
A few months ago at Decide we chose to embark on a Corporate Social Responsibility project, an initiative proposed by the Human Resources Department. After an internal round of questions and suggestions, we opted for the Food Bank of Madrid.
Who we are at Decide
During the recruitment processes at Decide one of the questions candidates ask me is “What are you like here?” It’s a question I truly appreciate, because deep inside I think when we all make the decision to start a new stage in our professional career, if we are really interested we think about what the company is like, the ins and outs.
What I think about when I run
Inspired the book “What I talk about when I talk about running” by Haruki Murakami whose hobby I share, for some time now I have been thinking about writing down those thoughts that come to mind while I’m running.
Is there life after the alarm clock?
My alarm clock goes off every morning, I open my eyes and get ready to go to work. Why? What pushes me to do this? The first simplest and most obvious answer is what a friend of mine says, “I work because for now it’s the only thing I get paid to do”. That’s true. But that is not what I think about the minute I get up. From bed to shower many other reasons come to mind.
What would Guillermo say?
I would like this post to be a tribute to Guillermo, as advisor and as a friend, as a key element of Decide’s genome that will last forever. How many times, today, do we the partners ask ourselves, every time we face a problem: What would Guillermo say?
What I mean when I talk about Excellence
Out of all of Decide’s values, there is one that we give special importance to, even though we have not bothered to define it precisely: excellence. It may seem initially that it is not necessary to define this word, but looking it up in the Spanish Dictionary of the Royal Academy, we can read this definition:
Almost a palindrome
To determine if a number is almost a palindrome, we would need to define a function that allows us to measure the distance from being a palindrome. Once such as measure were defined, we would need to define a threshold of values for which we would consider the licence plate to be almost a palindrome.