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		<title>Madly In Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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When reaching out to others there is a myth that you can get everyone to like you, or at the very least, stop anyone from disliking you. It is bullshit, and I can prove it. Name one important person, company or cause in history that is universally liked or hated. If you drew a blank [...]]]></description>
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<p>When reaching out to others there is a myth that you can get everyone to like you, or at the very least, stop anyone from disliking you. It is bullshit, and I can prove it. Name one important person, company or cause in history that is universally liked or hated. If you drew a blank is because anything that stands up for something will inevitably be rejected by some. </p>
<p>Those who are remarkable take a stance, they know who and what they are and they are comfortable with it. The leaders, the rebels, the agents of change in our world are never universally liked. To be liked by everyone is a practical impossibility and to be liked by most you have to compromise your core beliefs to the point where you become bland and gray. </p>
<p>When you are genuine about who you are many will love you and many will hate you. Don’t fear their dislike, embrace it, because it means you are remarkable. It means you are worth a strong opinion and no amount of advertising in the world can buy that. Be bold, be authentic, never bland, never gray.</p>
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<p>Cuando se trata de acercarnos a un público existe un mito de que puedes lograr agradarle a todos, o por lo menos evitar que les desagrades. Es una estupidez y lo puedo probar. Menciona una persona, compañia o causa en la historia que haya sido universalmente amada u odiada. Si no te vino nada a la mente es por que cualquiera que sostiene una posición será inevitablemente rechazado por algunos</p>
<p>Aquellos que son notables tienen una postura, saben quien y que son y están cómodos con ello. Los líderes, los rebeldes, los agentes del cambio del mundo nunca son universalmente queridos. Ser querido por todos es una imposibilidad práctica y para ser querido por la mayoría hay que comprometer lo que creemos a tal punto que nos volvemos aguados y grises. </p>
<p>Cuando eres genuino sobre quien eres muchos te amaran y muchos te odiaran. No le temas a su desprecio, dale la bienvenida, pues significa que vales el tener una opinión fuerte al respecto y ninguna cantidad de publicidad puede comprar eso. Se audaz, se autentico, nunca aguado, nunca gris.</p>
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		<title>What is it? Its it! | Que es eso? Es eso!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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A great case of cosmic convergence, or coincidence, your choice. I was listening to Faith No More&#8217;s Epic this morning when I read this post on Seth&#8217;s blog in which he riffs that consumers will always be asking &#8220;Is that it?&#8221; when faced with even the best of products or services. He then turns this [...]]]></description>
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<div id="column">A great case of cosmic convergence, or coincidence, your choice. I was listening to Faith No More&#8217;s Epic this morning when I read this post on Seth&#8217;s blog in which he riffs that consumers will always be asking &#8220;Is that it?&#8221; when faced with even the best of products or services. He then turns this into a cause for marketers and companies in general to strive for more, to be able to reply to &#8220;is that it?&#8221; with &#8220;No! There&#8217;s more!&#8221;. However, this isnt just a question our customers ask us, its what every great person asks itself. Great companies that after desigining a good product (or service) go on to ask themselves &#8220;<em>Is that it?</em>&#8221; and then turn it into a great product. Its what great thinkers, statemen, activists and businesspeople always ask themselves. <em>Is that it? Is that all i can give?</em> </p>
<p>When you are about to launch something into the world, a product, a service, your sales pitch, your story, ask yourself is that it? Truth is it will never be it, when it comes to talent and imagination it should <strong>never</strong> be <em>it</em>. You should feel a bigger hunger for that which is better, bigger than that of your customers. Faith No More said it best: <em>You want it all but you can&#8217;t have it, Its in your face but you can&#8217;t grab it. What is it? Its it.</em></div>
<div id="column-right">Un gran caso de concidencia cosmica, o tal vez coincidencia, tu desicion. Estaba escuchando esta mañana <em>Epic</em> de <em>Faith No More</em> cuando lei este post en el blog de Seth done habla sobre como los consumidores siempre estan pensando &#8220;eso es todo?&#8221;, aun cuando se trata del mejor producto o servicio. De ahi el convierte esto en una causa para que los mercadologos y compañias en general luchen por lograr algo mejor. Para que cuando les digan &#8220;eso es todo?&#8221; ellos puedan responder &#8220;No!, Hay mas!&#8221;. Aun asi esto no es solo una pregunta que nos hacen los clientes, es lo que toda gran persona se pregunta a si misma. Compañias que despues de diseñar un buen producto se preguntan &#8221;<em>eso es todo?</em>&#8220; y entonces convierten ese buen producto en un gran producto. Es lo que grandes pensadores, estadistas, activistas y empresarios se preguntan siempre. <em>Eso es todo? Es esto todo lo que puedo dar</em>? </p>
<p>Cuando estas a punto de lanzar algo nuevo al mundo, un producto, servicio, una propuesta de venta, tu historia, preguntat:, esto es todo? La verdad es que jamas lo sera, cuando se trata del talento y la imaginacion <strong>nunca </strong>debe de ser <em>todo</em>. Siempre debes sentir esa hambre de aquello que es mejor, mayor aun que el hambre de tus clientes. Fatih No More lo dijo mejor que nadie:<em> You want it all but you can&#8217;t have it, Its in your face but you can&#8217;t grab it. What is it? Its it.</em></div>
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		<title>Get Satisfaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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The other day I came across a new company called Get Satisfaction. Its basically a place where users can start forums for specific companies, products or services and discuss them or get support for them. Any user can start a forum for any company and some companies are joining in and giving official support on [...]]]></description>
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<td width="325" valign="top">The other day I came across a new company called <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/" target="_blank">Get Satisfaction</a>. Its basically a place where users can start forums for specific companies, products or services and discuss them or get support for them. Any user can start a forum for any company and some companies are joining in and giving official support on Get Satisfaction.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a very clear message here, in this age, if you don&#8217;t talk to your customers they will talk among themselves, if your official support sucks they will make one better. They don&#8217;t need your permission and you cant ignore them anymore. You can either join them in their conversation and give your customers the love they deserve or you can try to stop them. Guess what smart companies are doing?</td>
<td width="325" valign="top">El otro día me tope con una nueva compañía llamada <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/" target="_blank">Get Satisfaction</a>. Es básicamente un lugar donde los usuarios pueden crear foros hacer que de compañías, productos o servicios específicos y discutirlos u obtener ayuda en ellos. Cualquier usuario puede empezar un foro para cualquier compañía y algunas compañías ya usan Get Satisfaction para dar soporte técnico de manera oficial.</p>
<p>Hay un mensaje muy claro aquí, en esta época, si no quieres hablar con tus clientes ellos hablaran entre sí mismos, si tu suporte técnico apesta ellos crearan uno mejor. No necesitan tu permiso y no puedes seguir ignorándolos. Puedes unírteles en su conversación y darle a tus clientes el amor que se merecen o puedes tratar de detenerlos. Adivina que están haciendo las compañías inteligentes?</td>
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		<title>Steve Jobs: The iLeader / Steve Jobs: El iLider</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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Wired has an article on its April issue titled How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong. It tells the story of Apple&#8217;s management style, how while in Silicon Valley management is going for the open route, being empowering and comforting to its employees, Apple is going the opposite route. Its corporate culture [...]]]></description>
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<p>Wired has an article on its April issue titled <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple?currentPage=all" target="_blank">How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong</a>. It tells the story of Apple&#8217;s management style, how while in Silicon Valley management is going for the open route, being empowering and comforting to its employees, Apple is going the opposite route. Its corporate culture values extreme secrecy, empowerment is a dirty word at the company and micromanagement is on the menu everyday.</p>
<p>At the top of it all is Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and fearless leader of the company. Colleagues and employees describe him as &quot;totally in the zone&quot;, he inspires both zeal and&#160; fear in every employee. Jobs oversees every aspect of the company and of every product. If the curves of a letter in the iPhone&#8217;s font weren&#8217;t to his liking it had to be changed.</p>
<p>This old-school management style is reminiscent of a communist dictator, the fearless leader. A former senior executive at apple even likened Apple&#8217;s internal management to a terrorist cell scheme. Yet it works, against all common sense of today&#8217;s management practices, Apple&#8217;s management works and it has propelled it to the top of the tech market.</p>
<p>But for how long? Steve Jobs may indeed be a genius and its true he is rarely wrong but Apple isn&#8217;t Steve Jobs. What happens when the genius is no more? Is Apple so dependant on Jobs&#8217; magic touch that it would collapse in his absence? That&#8217;s exactly what happened when Jobs left apple in 1985. Great management should serve the company, not the other way around. Is your company under the rule of a fearless leader? Is it ready for the future?</p>
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<p>Wired tiene un art&#237;culo en su ejemplar de abril titulado <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple?currentPage=all" target="_blank">Como Apple Tuvo Todo Bien Haciendo Todo Mal</a>. Cuenta la historia del estilo de administraci&#243;n de Apple y como mientras que todo Silicon Valley adopta un estilo abierto, usando el empowerment y complaciendo a sus empleados, Apple hace todo lo opuesto. Su cultura es en extremo secretica, la palabra empowerment es una groser&#237;a en la empresa y la microadministracion est&#225; a la orden del d&#237;a.</p>
<p>Detr&#225;s de todo esto esta Steve Jobs, fundador de Apple y l&#237;der implacable de la compa&#241;&#237;a. Sus colegas lo describen como &quot;totalmente en la zona&quot;, inspira tanto gran lealtad como gran miedo en sus empleados. Jobs controla cada aspecto de la compa&#241;&#237;a, cada producto. Si las curvas de una letra en la fuente del iPhone no son a su gusto tendr&#225; que ser cambiada.</p>
<p>Este estilo antiguo de administraci&#243;n nos recuerda al de un dictador comunista, el l&#237;der implacable. Un ex-ejecutivo de Apple incluso comparo el estilo de administraci&#243;n de la empresa al de c&#233;lulas terroristas. Sin embargo funciona, contra todo sentido com&#250;n de las pr&#225;cticas de la administraci&#243;n moderna el estilo administrativo de Apple la ha llevado la cima del mercado tecnol&#243;gico.</p>
<p>&#191;Pero por cu&#225;nto tiempo? Steve Jobs puede ser un genio y es verdad que rara vez se equivoca pero Apple no es Steve Jobs. &#191;Qu&#233; pasa cuando el genio ya no este? &#191;Es Apple tan dependiente del toque m&#225;gico de Steve Jobs que colapsar&#237;a en su ausencia? Eso es exactamente lo que paso cuando Apple dejo la compa&#241;&#237;a en 1985. Una gran administraci&#243;n debe servir a la compa&#241;&#237;a, no a la inversa. &#191;Est&#225; tu compa&#241;&#237;a bajo el yugo de un l&#237;der temerario? &#191;Est&#225; lista para el futuro?</p>
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		<title>Why You Don’t Want A Resume / Por Que No Quieres Un Curriculo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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Ever since they crammed us with resume formulas back in high school I knew they were little more than a waste of paper. If you&#8217;re comfortable with representing all you are worth and everything that makes you remarkable into a formulaic document then there&#8217;s not really that much that&#8217;s remarkable about you. The few [...]]]></description>
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<p>Ever since they crammed us with resume formulas back in high school I knew they were little more than a waste of paper. If you&#8217;re comfortable with representing all you are worth and everything that makes you remarkable into a formulaic document then there&#8217;s not really that much that&#8217;s remarkable about you. The few times I&#8217;ve sat down to write a resume I felt completely inadequate. </p>
<p>How do you express your passions into a resume? How do you engage your prospective employer with brilliant storytelling? Most importantly, how can you show how genuine you are by following a formula? I, for one, cannot. How ridiculous is it that we still use a method that turns humans into facts to then try and find humanity in those facts. This needs to be changed.</p>
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<p>Desde que nos atascaron de formulas para escribir curr&#237;culos en la preparatoria supe que los curr&#237;culos no eran m&#225;s que desperdicio de papel. Si te sientes c&#243;modo representando todo lo que vales y todo lo que te hace notable en un documento formulario entonces realmente no hay mucho que sea notable de ti. Las pocas veces que me sent&#233; a escribir un curr&#237;culo me sent&#237; completamente fuera de lugar.</p>
<p>&#191;C&#243;mo expresas tus pasiones en un curr&#237;culo? &#191;C&#243;mo enganchas a tu futuro jefe usando una narrativa brillante? Y lo m&#225;s importante de todo; &#191;C&#243;mo puedes mostrar lo genuino que eres siguiendo una formula? Yo no puedo. Que tan rid&#237;culo es que en estos tiempos seguimos usando un m&#233;todo que convierte a humanos en hechos para luego tratar de buscar humanidad en los hechos. Esto debe cambiar.</p>
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<p>Inspired by <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/why-bother-havi.html" target="_blank">this post on Seth Godin&#8217;s blog</a> / Inspirado por <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/why-bother-havi.html" target="_blank">este art&#237;culo de Seth Godin</a></p></p>
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		<title>circuit city and why faking never works / Circuit city y por que fingir nunca funciona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Circuit City has been in hot water as of late, its place behind Best Buy in the electronics market is only overshadowed by its massive continuous loses over the past years. Their latest plan to turn things around is rebranding as The City. With a concept of smaller stores, interactive demonstrations of their products and [...]]]></description>
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<td CLASS="" WIDTH="295" VALIGN="top">Circuit City has been in hot water as of late, its place behind Best Buy in the electronics market is only overshadowed by its massive continuous loses over the past years. Their latest plan to turn things around is <a TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2008-03-09-circuitcity_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip">rebranding as The City</a>. With a concept of smaller stores, interactive demonstrations of their products and store &#8220;guides&#8221; equipped with tablet computers, the company hopes to regain ground.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s something wrong.</p>
<p>A <a TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://jobview.monster.com/GetJob.aspx?JobID=69161980&amp;AVSDM=2008-02-29%2008:32:00&amp;WT.mc_n=RSS2005_JSR">job posting on Monster to work at The City</a> says:</p>
<blockquote><p>With a focus on putting our guests first, Circuit City is launching a new store concept called The City, which truly transforms the guest experience.  In The City, we treat guests like they matter by providing a personalized shopping experience that, with the help of enabling technology, expertly answers guests&#8217; questions and meets their needs.</p></blockquote>
<p>We treat guests like they matter? Like they matter? That&#8217;s the problem right there, you&#8217;re doing your best to pretend your guests matter. No matter how much effort you put into pretending it will never substitute a real culture of providing great customer experiences. Circuit City has been pretending to care for their customers for over a decade and ever since they&#8217;ve been lagging behind more and more.</p>
<p>Pretending never works as well as the real thing, just like it didn&#8217;t work back in high school, it doesn&#8217;t work in business, it doesn&#8217;t work in life. When you are not genuine people will call you on it, if you are lucky. Usually they will just stop caring about you.</td>
<td CLASS="" WIDTH="295" VALIGN="top">Circuit City ha causado polémica últimamente, está en segundo lugar en el mercado de electrónicos en Estados Unidos y ha tenido tremendas pérdidas financieras. Su más reciente plan para retomar el rumbo es <a TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2008-03-09-circuitcity_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip">cambiar su marca a The City</a>. Esta nueva marca maneja un concepto de tiendas más pequeñas, aparadores interactivos y &#8220;guías&#8221; de la tienda equipados con computadoras tablet para atender a los visitantes. La compañía espera que esto le ayude a retomar el camino.</p>
<p>Pero algo está mal.</p>
<p>Un <a HREF="http://jobview.monster.com/GetJob.aspx?JobID=69161980&amp;AVSDM=2008-02-29%2008:32:00&amp;WT.mc_n=RSS2005_JSR">anuncio de reclutamiento en Monster para trabajar en The City</a> dice:</p>
<blockquote><p>Con el enfoque de poner a nuestros visitantes primero, Circuit City lanza un nuevo concepto de tienda llamado The City, que realmente transforma la experiencia del visitante. En The City, tratamos a nuestros invitados como si importaran, brindándoles atención personalizada que con la ayuda de tecnología responde las preguntas de nuestros invitados y satisface sus necesidades.</p></blockquote>
<p>¿Tratamos a nuestros invitados como si importaran? ¿Como si importaran? He ahí el problema, están haciendo su mejor esfuerzo para pretender que sus invitados les importan. Y no importa que tanto te esfuerces en pretender, nunca substituirá una verdadera cultura de brindar una excelente experiencia a los clientes. Circuit City lleva una década pretendiendo que le importan sus clientes y desde entonces se han estado rezagando.</p>
<p>Pretender nunca funciona tan bien como lo real. Así como pretender no funcionaba en la preparatoria, no funciona en los negocios, tampoco funciona en la vida. Cuando no eres genuino la gente te lo hará saber, pero eso es si tienes suerte. Generalmente solo se olvidan de ti.</td>
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		<title>Good Ideas Are Cheap / Las Buenas Ideas son baratas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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Good ideas are overrated, even great ideas are overrated. When was the last time a good idea changed the world? Ah, Edison, you say? Einstein? Adam Smith? Marx? Tesla? I bet a dozen other names are popping into your head right now, but you&#8217;re wrong, dead wrong.
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<p ALIGN="center"><strong><a HREF="http://ivanismo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ablaze.jpg"><img BORDER="0" WIDTH="500" SRC="http://ivanismo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/ablaze-thumb.jpg" ALT="ablaze" HEIGHT="332" STYLE="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" /></a> </strong></p>
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<td CLASS="" WIDTH="300" VALIGN="top">Good ideas are overrated, even great ideas are overrated. When was the last time a good idea changed the world? Ah, Edison, you say? Einstein? Adam Smith? Marx? Tesla? I bet a dozen other names are popping into your head right now, but you&#8217;re wrong, dead wrong.</p>
<p>It was not these people&#8217;s ideas that changed the world, it was passion. The passion these people had for their ideas changed the world. Good ideas are a penny a pound, they born often in your mind. You know the feeling, a new idea smashes into your head and you just know it would work, even if it’s unusual, you know in your heart that it would work, but do you go for it or do put it away? I ask you, did you act upon your last great idea? How about the last ten than came before that one?</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t kid yourself as a would-be genius, that great idea you just had was already thought up by someone else before you and if not it won’t be long until someone does. The only difference between you and the next insurgent that changes the world won’t be a great idea, it will be passion.</p>
<p>An idea on its own is nothing more than a nice puddle of fuel, but passion, the drive to act upon what you believe and take on the world; that’s the true spark of change and when that spark lights up that fuel your idea catches on fire. That fire is inspiration, it grows and spreads to others and before you know it your world will be ablaze.</p>
<p>That good idea you just had? I don’t care for it, its harmless, its weak. It’s even weaker than the status quo. But your passion? Your passion makes me turn my head, it makes me react. There are sparks near that fuel, watch out! A fire’s about to start!</p>
<p>So what will you do when your next great idea strikes? Will you simply swallow it like the rest and get drunk on it as if it were alcohol? Or will you dare to be passionate and light up a fire that changes the world?</td>
<td CLASS="" WIDTH="290" VALIGN="top">Las buenas ideas están sobrevaluadas, aun las grandes ideas están sobrevaluadas. ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que una buena idea cambio el mundo? ¿Edison, dirás? ¿Einstein? ¿Adam Smith? ¿Marx? ¿Tesla? Apuesto a que tienes muchos otros nombres en la cabeza, pero estas equivocado, totalmente equivocado.</p>
<p>No fueron las ideas de estas personas lo que cambio el mundo, fue su pasión. La pasión que estas personas tenían por sus ideas cambio el mundo. Las buenas ideas son baratas, a un peso el kilo, nacen a cada momento en tu cabeza. Sabes de que hablo, de repente una idea explota en tu cabeza y en ese instante sabes que funcionara, aun si es una idea inusual tu sabes dentro de tu corazón que funcionara. ¿Pero te lanzas a lograrlo o haces la idea a un lado? ¿Te pregunto, actuaste sobre tu última gran idea? ¿Qué tal sobre las últimas diez ideas antes de esa?</p>
<p>No te engañes creyéndote un genio, esa gran idea que tienes alguien ya la tuvo antes que tú y si no, no falta mucho para que alguien más la tenga. La única diferencia entre tú y el siguiente insurgente que cambie al mundo será la pasión.</p>
<p>Una idea por sí sola no es más que un charco de combustible, pero la pasión, el empuje para actuar sobre lo que crees y enfrentarte al mundo, esa es la verdadera chispa del cambio y cuando esa chispa encienda ese combustible, tu idea se enciende en fuego. Ese fuego es inspiración, crece y se esparce a otros y antes de que te des cuenta todo tu mundo está en llamas.</p>
<p>¿Y esa buena idea que acabas de tener? No me interesa, es inofensiva, es débil. Es aun más débil que el estatus quo. ¿Pero, tu pasión? Tu pasión me hace voltear, me hace reaccionar. ¡Hay chispas cerca de ese combustible, cuidado! ¡Un incendio va a empezar!</p>
<p>¿Así que, qué harás cuando tu siguiente gran idea llegue? ¿Simplemente te la tragaras y embriagaras con ella como si fuese alcohol? ¿O te atreverás a ser apasionado y empezar un incendio que cambie el mundo?</td>
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<p><em>Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire!</em></p>
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		<title>Ivanism prevails / el ivanismo prevalece</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ivan Lozano</dc:creator>
		
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For 21 years Ivanism has led the way for many people. Sometimes the way led to fantastic clusterfucks, other more fortunate times it has led to joy and awesomeness for most involved. Always changing, always evolving Ivanism is not perfect but very entertaining.          
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<td valign="top" width="290">For 21 years Ivanism has led the way for many people. Sometimes the way led to fantastic clusterfucks, other more fortunate times it has led to joy and awesomeness for most involved. Always changing, always evolving Ivanism is not perfect but very entertaining.          </p>
<p>This website is an opportunity for you to enjoy and partake in the development of Ivanism and its many branches. You are encouraged to comment in whatever is published here, after all there are few things more lovely than conversation on the Internet, even when all involved eventually become nothing but fucking nazis.           </p>
<p>Ivanismo is currently published in both English and Spanish to better accommodate the needs of the Ivanist crowd, those who prefer another language can happily go fuck themselves as English and Spanish is the best the management can currently do.           </p>
<p>Without much further ado, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the show.</td>
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<p>Por 21 a&#241;os el Ivanismo ha marcado el camino para mucha gente. Algunas veces ese camino llevo a gloriosos desmadres, en otras m&#225;s afortunadas situaciones el camino llevo a la mayor&#237;a de los involucrados a la alegr&#237;a y a la chilez. Siempre cambiante, siempre evolucionando el Ivanismo no es perfecto pero es muy entretenido.            </p>
<p>Este sitio es una oportunidad para que disfrutes y participes en el desarrollo del Ivanismo y de todas sus ramas. Se te exhorta a comentar en lo que sea publicado aqu&#237;, despu&#233;s de todo pocas cosas son m&#225;s placenteras que una conversaci&#243;n en el Internet, incluso cuando todos los involucrados eventualmente se convierten en una bola de pinches nazis.             </p>
<p>Ivanismo se publica en ingles y espa&#241;ol para mejor satisfacer las necesidades de la gente Ivanista, todos aquellos que prefieran alg&#250;n otro lenguaje pueden ir a chingar a su madre por que la administraci&#243;n no da m&#225;s que para ingles y espa&#241;ol.             </p>
<p>Sin m&#225;s pre&#225;mbulos, damas y caballeros, disfruten del espect&#225;culo.</p>
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