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Lesson Learned from My visit to Colombia

  Last week I visited the Great country of Columbia and met the wonderful people living there. It was a nice experience visiting Bucaramanga and meeting with amazing team members. This was my first visit to the country since we opened the office almost two years ago. I used to meet our Colombian colleagues in our Houston office and have always felt the positive energy in them. I had heard about the problems facing Colombia, including the economic challenges and the issues with drugs. There are other challenges too, which is why my impression was that people would be living in a lot of stress there and Colombia would not be a safe place to live in.       But after talking to them and visiting them I was astonished at how peaceful the country is, and how friendly the people were. Their problems are not very different from the ones faced by other developing countries, including the need to have good, strong leadership that makes their lives better.     ...