Random Thoughts and Reflections

So where have I been and what have I been thinking about? Well, nothing much besides my dissertation. But then again, some interesting things do happen- yesterday for example, I heard a very nice analogy about teambuilding and leadership. A Canadian guy, who I had a conversation at my Economics' teachers farewell party, draw an interesting parallel from the movie Ben Hur. Remember the movie? If so, do you also remember the horserace and the fact how the main character (Judah) built his "team"? He brought together different horses and found a role for all of them in his team- making the most stable run in the inside, the craziest on the outside and etc. I'd like to thank Tim for that nice analogy- I had never thought about this episode through this prism.

Did you happen to read last weeks Economist? I did, although with some delay- somehow I never manage to finish them during the week that they come out- it's just too much information. And the fact that they seem to get thicker and thicker as time goes by, really doesn't help. Anyway, the survey about Poland brought two things into my mind. Firstly, will The Economist ever make a survey like this about Estonia? I'm a bit skeptic about this, just because of the scale of the country. How much do 1,3 million people somewhere in the periphery of the Europe matter? To be honest, not much. But what about the idea of Estonia pushing itself into this magazine? I'm not sure (after reading the report about Poland) that there would be fewer things to talk about- it's just the fact that the significance level on the global level is, can I say, insignificant. Oh, and one more good analogy- history and a river, namely- the young Poles think of the history like a river, which runs under a bridge- it's there, but it's not effecting them at the first instance. And what about IKEA? Enlightening story of how big corporations avoid taxes? Come to think of it- I've always been interested in these kinds of themes...