Archive for August, 2009

Thank God, I am one of the few people who still hasn’t gone on holiday…. A hard summer of work, but with its sweet reward—when all the others have returned from their yearned for but short holidays where they weren’t quite unplugged, I will be off far far away, right out in the boondocks where [...]

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

I wonder whether Laurence J. Peter (Peter Principle) and Scott Adams (Dilbert Principle) ever met and ever discussed their visionary ideas about the way organizations work. Given the difference in age between these two, I doubt it, although Peter’s theories clearly made their mark in Scott, who knew how to express them at their best [...]

I can’t explain why or how, the human resources “gurus” insist on rescuing words from other disciplines, which have nothing to do with ours, to explain phenomena that occurs in companies, and more so in their employees. The latest buzzword is the term resilience, which according to Wikipedia is “in psychology is the positive capacity [...]

Over the last few months I have spent time trying to understand the difference between Outsourcing, SaaS, ASP, etc., I have only just been able to reach one reasonably coherent conclusion. The world of IT has been changing radically. Each day new terms appear and disappear—all that achieves is to complicate things unnecessarily. And it [...]

As we announced yesterday, today we have published our new home web page for Meta4 Spain. Next week we will continue efforts with all the websites in all countries.

Countdown with even less to go—tomorrow at this time, our newly index Meta4 website will be up and running. The new look—more functional, modern and attractive—lets visitors to access all information at a click. We also wanted to simplify the process for contacting us. All the communication channels with Meta4 are visible at a glance, [...]

The purpose of the programme is to train HR professionals in their Meta4 PeopleNet product. The participants will obtain certification which will prepare them for using Meta4 solutions in the labour market. “Our objective with this training programme is to make it easier for all HR professionals interested filling current and future vacancies in any [...]