A buyer's choice

Crisis, time to change, time to evolve, time to buy a new car. Yep! That's what my father's doing right now, visiting all the car dealers in Alicante region in order to find a suitable car.

And now comes the choice: diesel or gasoline?

Diesel engines costs around 1200 € more than their equivalent in gasoline, so the question is, how many kilometers should I do till I cover the investment?

If you want to know it: it's around 40.000 km. So diesel is the best choice if you want to save money on fuel. On the other hand, repairs are more expensive on diesel engines than in gasoline ones. But anyway, you'll be saving much more money on fuel than on repairs, God willing.

The times they are a changin'

Don't know why, but cannot keep out of mind Bob Dylan's song The times they are a changin' . Maybe that's because we're living a new age of changes: Arab Spring, China's world leadership, end of the capitalism as we know it, ...  "Not a age of changes but a change of age" as Juan Carlos Cubeiro says in his blog: Hablemos de Talento (Let's talk about Talent, only in Spanish).

Enjoy the song.

Be Happy. Be Audacious

Two days ago, I was in the train from Cologne to Hannover and I read the following words in the HBR magazine:

Now is the time for audacity, not austerity.

It's curious to read these words from a HBR editor, but Scott Berinato pointed out the key point for those who watch these days the news: Should Europe focus more on promoting innovation and employment or keep on with deficit's corrective measures?

I know it's a difficult question but making the wrong decision could change the future of the European Union as a whole, and therefore, the future of those who live under the 12 golden stars' flag.
What's going to happen? What are Europe's goals for the next few months? And for the next 5 years?

Looks like we cannot link our professional future to those decisions related to european and national policies, so what can we do?
"Be Happy. Be Audacious" are the words from Adi Ignatious, HBR's Editor in Chief. (HBR, Jan-Feb 2012), and probably reflects perfectly the philosophy of this Blog.
I'm not sure if "audacious" is the right word but under the economical perspectives of these times we're living, we should look back and read the Eneida, from Virgilius (70 b.C - 19 a.C), and its wonderful statement:

Audentes fortuna iuvat. (Fortune favours the bold) 

Good luck!