Desenrascanço

Desenrascanço (Impossible translation into English) is a Portuguese word used to describe the capacity to improvise in the most extraordinary situations possible against all odds, resulting in a hypothetical good-enough solution. When that good solution doesn't occur we got a failure. It is taught, more or less, informally in some Portuguese institutions, such as universities, navy or army. Portuguese people strongly believe it to be one of the most valued virtues of theirs and a living part of their culture. Desenrascanço in fact is the opposite of planning, but mannaging for the problem not becoming completely out of control and without solution.