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“The price of greatness is responsibility.” Winston Churchill Today Randstad published a survey which has surprised me enormously. It asked workers what they thought of their managers in terms of talent management. More than 52% of those surveyed felt that their managers in the company were not apt enough. That more than half the people [...]

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” Henry Ford Just where did the spirit of Henry Ford go? How on earth did we get to “Make an acceptable quality of goods at the lowest cost [...]

“When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are” R. H. Grant “The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt [...]

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, [...]