Today another topic...not very usual on this blog

I hear people talking about relationships in multiple ways, I see people having different kinds of relationships, I know people doing various things for their relationships…I could go on…but some people might stop reading at this point and would scream…what´s your point?

My point is, dear friends, that I just realized today, how fascinated I am by the variety of means how people can be satisfied in their relationships. There are a lot of bonds, which couples are creating since the time they are together. Some people want to have a heavy bond right away, and if they don´t have it, they feel they will never get it, and they lose interest. Some people do not want to create tight connections at all and they just want to enjoy indefinite company of the other person without any particular reason. Most people, I would guess, gather these bonds by experience. And sometimes it is true, that the more hassles, problems, crucial situations – the more bonds are created. The couple starts to rely on each other in difficult situations, which is usually stronger bond than the one coming from the pleasant times, but I am not saying that is not important :-).

One friend of mine told me, that she usually tests a guy by being very stubborn and making him do things for her or according to her in certain situations. What she then really wants is, that the guy himself tells her at specific point…now that has really been too much, you´ve got to let go on this. And that would prove to her, that he would not make a fool of himself and she finds it attractive. Well, do we really need to test guys like this? If you prefer…but why would I need to test something artificial when real tests are happening every day.

I think what most girls do in relationships is that they gradually like more and more the things their boyfriends like because we like to see our boys happy. And I think boys have it like this as well. Then we start doing things together and that creates a totally new dimension because we have a new experience, new bond.

To conclude, I am so thankful for the relationship I am having now, I have never experienced so many nice and new things before :-). And I am telling my man every day.

My first sickleave

Hey there, I happen to be on my first official sick leave in employee status, so apart from drinking a lot of tea, having rest and taking some some pill every 6 hours, I also thought of doing some blogging again.

My job has been really crazy in the last two months and I am still not entirely clear what my new position is going to look like because a lot seems to be changing all around. I thought I had a nice idea at the beginning, but Cisco is such a bloody complex creature. I like revealing its complexity, however, not everytime we like the things, we reveal. So… I rather write about something else. And let´s make it a new article.

Some news from start of 2011

The new year has started extremely well and I feel to be in a good shape for the upcoming challenges of 2011.

I really wanted to enjoy some nice skiing this winter which came true last week in Dolomiti with bunch of my friends. Great slopes of the Dolomiti Ski area, blue sky and sunny weather the whole week and good snow conditions, what more could we wish for a nice skiing experience. I tried the famous "Sella Ronda" skiing route, also learned to know some new drinks and drinking games :-), and enjoyed good company of nice people and fabulous mountain views (see example attached).

 The next thing, which is new to my professional live as of February is a promotion in Cisco. I am moving into a role where I can influence more the future of Cisco´s collaboration with its business partners in Emerging markets. I hope it would be a rewarding experience for me in months and years to come. Anyway, since I am in handover phase right know, and the company is also searching for replacement of my position, I would not disclose more at this moment and will cover this in some of my future posts.

Last but not least, we had a plan with my boyfriend Lukas, to introduce our parents to each other. Yesterday, we all met and went for decent lunch into the Brasilian restaurant in Prague. I believe, it was a good idea to do this and everyone enjoyed it. So we can only hope that everything else in our relationship will continue going so well.

Some supply chain humour before Christmas, 10 reasons why your holiday gift will be delivered late (by Kinaxis)

10. Santa made a tactical error in choosing a "fly by night" 3PL instead of his usual crew of reindeer.

9. Santa refused to go through the body scanner and the TSA is still patting him down (he's a big guy you know...)

8. Santa outsourced to China and lead times have ballooned - it will be a "Christmas in July" scenario for many!

7. Global warming has advanced to the point that the North Pole melted.

6. Pixie dust is on allocation.

5. The fireplace in Santa's North Pole residence was mistakenly filled with Kindles instead of kindling.

4. Santa's visibility only extends to the bottom of his eggnog glass.

3. Santa bought ERP...and is still implementing.

2. The “naughty” and “nice” data fell into an Excel abyss. Guess which list you ended up on?

1. Santa told key members of his manufacturing team, "Go elf yourself."

Merry Christmas!!!!

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CEMS MIM Graduation and Annual Events 2010 in Rotterdam

This year´s CEMS Annual Events in Rotterdam was very special for me because I have finally obtained my CEMS Master´s in International Management diploma. Cold and snowy weather conditions could not spoil perfect meeting with my friends who have mostly graduated as well.

Great experience from TEDxPrague conference

My first visit of a TEDx event was definitely worth it. I went there thx to my boyfriend and my employer Cisco (main sponsor of the event), nice combination.

Overall a lot of great speekers and topics, good organization given the fact that number of participants was twice higher than expected, and I´ve written down a lot of interesting and innovative thoughts.

Some ideas or facts I really found interesting:

• Tomáš Baťa was criticised for giving high responsible jobs to very young people.
• You can start being entrepreneur at every age, even at 65, Mrs. Garlikova is a good example of this.
• Managers get hired thanks to their education, knowledge and experience, but they get fired due to lack of social skills and inability to work with their teams.

• Most important decisions in our lives are done through emotions (think of various situations yourself: how have you decided about your field of study, first job, future husband/wife, name for your children, location of your house).
• Gallup study: 80% of employed people do not like tasks in their jobs or their job overall, their life is shaped by the very known abb. TGIF.
• Companies sometimes treat their employees as their parents did when they were small children (do not do this, do not dress like this, you have to ask before you do that...), interesting paradigm :-)....vs. concept of free companies becoming more popular nowadays /hiring self-managing individuals, etc.
• Stress and learning are two basic reflexes or reactions keeping us alive. People usually cannot learn anything properly when they are stressed because these two reflexes work in different situations.
• It´s important to give children chance to lead something on their own and to success or learn from mistakes because they are the future leaders.
• Usage of alternative education sources will definitely grow (google, wiki, blogs, e-learnings). Parents will try to look for good education for their children outside of the old education system.
• Great idea: Granny cloud - retired women teaching kids online 1-2 hours per day.
• Micro-loans in developing countries have 90% payback rate. People are willing to take them even with huge interest. Micro-savings are banking products with big market potential. In some countries, collectors of these savings come every day to collect tiny amount of money because if people kept the money even few days, they would spend it on something else than they are saving for.

And there was more...this is just overview of what got stuck in my head :-).

One thing where my opinion is different from one of  the presenters:

• "When teaching small children: marks and grades make children feel bribed for learning stuff. Schools transform children in little bribers".  This is too strong statement for me. I definitely do not believe that grades mean everything, however people are compared to each other everywhere they go (school, university, labor market, employment, family, relationships). And children should learn that sometimes others can be better than them and they should feel proud of extraordinary achievements by obtaining nice evaluation.

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My article from Reflex got into the recently published travellers´ book

Today I picked up a package at my post office and I found this book: http://www.knizniweb.cz/knihy/89753-na-vandru-s-reflexem-v.html.

Opening it I found out that my article about the CEMS internship got published in a new book from Mr. Zvelebil who writes articles based on interviews with various travellers, publishes them in the Czech social magazine Reflex in his special section and occasionally as wider collection also in a book-form.

My article desribing work experience from Bonn can be found on page 63 :-).

You can buy the book at http://www.knizniweb.cz/knihy/89753-na-vandru-s-reflexem-v.html. for the best price. This one offers articles from Ethiopia, Ghana, Germany, Austria, Kongo, Sudan, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda and Vietnam. Very interesting range. I am looking forward to be reading all of them.

How to get my book with free shipping?

Just click here: http://bit.ly/cUwI7e

 

Summer 2010

This was my first summer which I spent together with my boyfriend Lukas, as full-time employee of Cisco and in non-student status, my book about CPFR was published, I tried to prepare sushi for the first time…what else is new? Oh yeh, I celebrated my first 25 years on the world with few decent parties including my family, friends, colleagues from work, etc. Of course, since it´s summer time, some other parties, trips and also well-deserved holiday abroad were part of it. I will put together a diary for our trip through Bulgaria and Istanbul, it will be published at http://www.ontheroad.to/ and through this blog as well.

My 25 birthday celebration:

Me 25 and my grandmother 80! Plus my sister 19 and fresh university student of medicine!

I got my first Porsche from my dad – ok, it´s made of chocolate, but it´s a good start :-)

Me and my mom – daughter 25 and mom 50!

This present from my mom was a memorial plaque to honour Obama´s visit in Prague and says: Yes, we can.  But the really funny thing was the playing box where it was placed.

 Bike trip with Cisco colleagues…

 Beach volleyball with Cisco colleagues…

My book has been published

My book is online and available for sale at amazon.com  - http://is.gd/ex6IF. I just found out today because my mom discovered this for me :-).

 

Product Description

Collaboration among businesses is currently considered to be driver for growth, cost reduction and innovation in many industries. Collaboration together with technology and visibility is the way how to improve complex multinational supply chains. This publication describes new concepts of collaborative planning in supply chains. The theoretical part depicts developments of supply chain planning from 60s until recent time and shows possible solutions of common supply chain planning problems in form of modern collaborative practices (e.g. Quick Response, Continuous Replenishment, Vendor-managed Inventory, Efficient Consumer Response). In further parts, the work mainly focuses on CPFR (Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenisment) concept. There is a separate chapter devoted to benchmarks and pilots of CPFR. In addition to that, practical research of one particular example of CPFR implementation was conducted in cooperation with companies T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom AG) and Nokia. Results of this research can be found in the last chapter.