What is the Caucasus?
The South Caucasus region is three former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, in Central Asia. (Check this out for a visual). The team is an amazingly dedicated bunch of young folk working for a non profit). So you know that they work waaaay too much and for little tangible reward. The magic ingredient is compassion (caring/passion). So I became very fond of them, their talent and their mission and have had the honor of providing coaching and mentioning to them. Most of this has been electronic. Now we are half a world apart, right? So most of the time we seriously and diligently work via a message board and email. We have a lot to get done! But after our first face to face in March, we started using instant messenger tools. And the combination of spending 2 weeks together and getting to know each other and the immediacy of the IM offered us a real easy way to PLAY! Well, if you had saved all our chats, you will soon note that while we solved problems in IM, brainstormed
