Rio 2016: Olympic Projections

After an intense week with very important classes of conceptual and theoretical introduction, Each of the managers from that group was assigned to the location where they would develop their action plans, which were quite specific to the activities of each pavilion during the Olympic Games. Rio 2016.

My sense of relief at saying goodbye to downtown Rio de Janeiro was only matched by the curiosity of finally meeting the team I would actually be working with.

My First Job: Rio 2016 (In My Early 40s)

Despite my 20 years in the military and numerous participations in corporate events, April 18, 2016, is marked in my life as the day I started my first job, and without a doubt, it was an intense, challenging, and extremely rewarding experience.

As promised, I have no institutional commitments and intend to share a bit of everything — both the glorious lights of Olympus and the occasional shadows of Hades — from my critical and biased perspective, so I can't hide it: the arrival of my management team at MPC was… a delightful mess!

The Chaos of Accreditation and the Lack of PCs in the MPC

Even if everything related to accreditation had been working perfectly, it would still have taken almost all of Monday to identify and authorize everyone, but… even I ended up showing up in the system with an allocation error. Venue!

So, right off the bat, we discovered that the price of meticulous security is revealed by the lack of dynamism in critical processes:

• Even “our” computers weren’t there;
• Almost two weeks passed before they arrived;
• This complicated the process of visualizing and understanding the work schedule for which I was responsible.

But… at least every day I would ask the staff about the equipment. Acts Telecommunications And perhaps because I was also a "plate cleaner," we ended up becoming quite good friends.

Lemonade (and Ice Cream) with Lemons

If I made lemonade out of lemons, what I'm about to tell you might sound snobbish, but during that first week of settling in, our activities also involved strenuous reconnaissance walks, observation and patience exercises, and the consumption of creamy, sweet pasta... does that sound bad enough?

Well, I tried to do just that, but, to translate: we went to visit all the venues in the Olympic Park, watch games at test events and, on some occasions, even be guinea pigs for Kibon by having to receive and taste the experimental flavors of the Magnum and Cornetto lines!
Such profound sadness and deep weariness can only be expressed through images, which are worth more than a thousand words…

Great Powers, Great “Cucumbers”

There's a catchphrase in the superhero world that states, "with great power comes great responsibility," and in the professional sphere, "responsibilities" have great potential to become headaches, headaches, and even grounds for dismissal!

In fact, some of the managers who joined the Committee with me were already gone—fired or by their own decision—even before our computers were made available, an event that ended up revealing another major gap: even with the tool in hand, the volunteers' data—material to be shaped—would still take almost another couple of weeks to become accessible!
About that…

In addition to all that, the work environment couldn't have been better: upon arriving at the "office," I found people I already knew from various places and previous events, a surprise that, given the proposed synergy between teams from different areas, instilled in me the confidence of already having some professional recognition... and this had consequences much sooner than I could ever have imagined...

"Uncle's" advice: Leadership and Resilience

My greatest desire at that moment was to showcase my work: to dive into a tidal wave of names and return with a pearl in perfectly coordinated scale.

But, while that wasn't possible, all that remained was to fight to escape the anxiety by reading manuals and participating in the many meetings where the topics discussed occasionally were NEVER — not before, not during, and much less after! — related to my activities.

But, without a doubt, it was too cool!

And since the text is already getting long, I think I can conclude with some "uncle-level advice":

1. Always practice and improve your skills.
2. Keep a flexible mind to learn new things.
3. Never accept limitations.

Because if one day (like today for me) you're desperate about overdue bills, the next day, depending on your capabilities, you might have to sit at a desk, as a leader, receiving reports with data that could even consume a few nights of your peaceful sleep, but which, once properly mastered, will be the means that put food on your table!

Be dedicated and never get confused. obstacles with enemies.

Coming Soon: The “Corporate Cow”!

And speaking of enemies, I think I'll soon have to introduce the figure of the "corporate cow," a person whose name I won't mention, but whose behavior I observed and saw manipulating and harming many people in an insane desire to gain visibility... they even tried to step on me!

To find out more, I invite you to come back another day and read another chapter of my "Olympic saga".

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