Recente pesquisa realizada com as assinantes do canal HBO em 56 paises apontou as mulheres brasileiras como as mais infieis do planeta. A pesquisa que avaliou os generos e temas cinematograficos mais apreciados pela audiencia feminina incluia questoes de natureza intima e pessoal. Os dados da pesquisa surpreendem por apresentarem a mulher brasileira mais livre de tabus e preconceitos. Veja os dados mais surpreendentes da pesquisa atentando para o fato que a pesquisa destaca exclusivamente o perfil das brasileiras: Voce ja traiu seu marido?Algumas vezes37%Uma unica vez8%So em pensamento29%Nunca, mas tive vontade21%Nunca, nem tive vontade5% Qual sua opiniao sobre o nu frontal masculino no cinema ?Instigante96%Constrangedor3%Indiferente1% Ja se sentiu estimulada a se m@sturbar por causa de um filme?Algumas vezes72%Uma unica vez17%Nunca5%Nao lembro1%Nao me m@sturbo5% Quais cenas sao mais excitantes?Casal heterossexual23%Casal homossexual feminino37%Casal homossexual masculino2%Menage a trois36%Nao acho excitantes cenas2% Pesquisa sobre infidelidade conjugal no mundo: Voce ja traiu seu marido?Brasileiras45%Norte-americanas39%Mexicanas38%Espanholas34%Francesas33%Australianas29%Argentinas27%Japonesas24%Russas18%Canadenses11%Pelos dados da pesquisa as mulheres brasileiras sao as mais liberadas e liberais. O cara comeu tanto, mais tanto, e resolveu ir pra academia queimar as calorias que ingeriu, mas nao imaginou que na hora de fazer forca iria... As much as everyone nowadays talks about diversity, it is still all-too-common for managers and leaders at all levels to hire people that act and think like themselves. The reasoning behind this practice is that by working with people that think like us, it may become easier to collaborate and get to an agreement on tough questions. That may be true, but the real danger of doing this is that we may be just amplifying our weaknesses, instead of strengthening our team. The importance of this divergent thinking was clear to me when I watched this TED talk from Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. As someone who has suffered from analysis paralysis while trying to do a simple activity such as buy flour at the supermarket (it is insane the number of different types of flour out there), I could definitely relate to the message that sometimes more is less. Still, as I was watching this talk, I also remembered another TED talk, this one by Malcolm Gladwell, telling the fascinating story about how my favorite type of tomato sauce (chunky) came to exist, and even more importantly, talking about the importance of adding more choices to improve customers satisfaction with a product. Wait a minute! Two great TED talks, from two very intelligent authors, and one apparently contradicting the other? Yep, precisely that. In fact, the more I thought about this, the more I could come up with additional examples. And this one deserves a story. A few years ago, before I joined FAST Search (and way before Microsoft acquired FAST), I was working at a large ecommerce site in Brazil. Our biggest reference in the industry was Amazon (obviously), and one day my manager came to me and said I was going to work on this project that aimed to implement a recommendation systems similar to the one at Amazon. And thats what we did, through many brainstorming sessions and