(Our Equipo Directivo with spouses and my family in Curitiba, Brazil)

Hi Layla!

Thank you very much for bringing in your experience with adult education. During last years Spring semester, I took a class with Dr. Castellon on adult education and it was very enriching. Have you taken the ldrs 627? If not, you will definitely enjoy it.

By the way, you cited a personal communication with two people from China. Did they talk in any way or fashion about how adults in China might perceive short-term and long-term gains differently than Westerners since our sources are from the West? Just wonder. I spend a lot of time talking to co-workers about how they perceive things while reading books and articles about leadership.

I appreciate you giving me new tips for how adults see things differently than teenagers. Thanks for pointing out that you see long-term and short-term gains less of a balance than an issue of convincing people of long-term gains. In Paraguay, during the meetings with our leadership team people might not object against certain ideas but then I have to go and observe their routines the following weeks to see if they were convinced. Paraguayans will less frequently speak out and enter into a discussion about strategies. At the moment, they might say yes but then latter will continue to do it the old way. So, observing and continuing to talk about new strategies is necessary.

I also appreciate your idea of creating a collective mental model. This will help me working with my leadership team (equipo directivo).

Blessings,