Where There Is No Competition There Is Incompetence

If you are among those guatemalans suffering from the "uncertainty census syndrome ", simply because you cannot believe the 1994 Census, we have good news for you. Apart from some misfits, the principal indicators reflect an image that is quite close to reality, as shown by the study performed by the Center for National Economic Investigations.

Alejandro Silagyi, an argentine business consultant, recently commented during a work visit to a group of managers, that "where there is no competition, the muscles responsible for competitiveness do not develop". Under that point of view, we should see our competitors as associates or rivals, but not as enemies, since they help to keep us in shape and better ourselves.

In the section "Law and Business", Marcos Ibargüen pinpoints an issue that each day causes more worry, since there appears to be no way of punishing the delinquents who are absolved of any guilt in the name of the right of defense.

New ideas for business have no limit. In Guatemala, Lavet Laboratories employs viruses and bacteria with such creativity that they are exporting vaccines to all of Central America and soon will also include Mexico.

From the Web, Grete Pasch takes us to two topics in a future that advances towards us rapidly: electronic money and the digital art revolution.

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