By Antonia Montes
Mergers and acquisitions between companies have turned into a business strategy for increasing profitability and competiveness in difficult times. Although we use these terms interchangeably as synonyms, there are substantial differences between them.
A merger occurs when two or more companies join together to convert into a single one. If one of the intervening [...]

By Pedro Dávila, Training Director at Meta4
Not so long ago I read a very interesting article trying to give advice to students on what careers, studies and languages to pursue to ensure them a professional future in the workplace.
The conclusion the article drew was clear; in the new labour framework, neither university or post-grad qualifications, [...]

By Gemma Romero, Project Manager
Every time I read a financial paper, I come across press that continues to remind us all of the productivity gap between Spain and our neighbours, not to mention absenteeism which is much higher than the European average.
Given this information, it’s not surprising we’d tie one thing in with the other. [...]

After months of reading articles, posts, opinions and whatever over the net on how to avoid talent brain drain, I am going to try and put into a nutshell the ideas I have been gathering. Before I start though, I must say that all that is being said on the matter is quite vague, and [...]

Is there happiness at work? I think that for the majority of people this is more of a utopia than a “possible reality”. But companies will have to start to worry about the people working under their roof, not just them but also their happiness—unless they want to lose their talented employees, or if they [...]

How do you see the future of employee engagement over the next 10 years? How will this idea change in the decade to come?
The writer, educator, coach and consultant, David Zinger, forewarning us of the risk of making such predictions, tells us what he thinks will occur in the next few years.
You can read it [...]

It’s a good question, and as always, the answer always filters to Spain late. It seems that competencies management is finally leaving the stage to make room for such a pioneering notion, for which we still have no offical translation in Spanish. Gurus like Carlos Alemany, president of Korn Ferry International, have heralded learning ability [...]

We all think we know what talent is, but can we truthfully find a real definition for talent? Douglas Javier Rodriguez started a debate in LinkedIn that hasn’t stopped growing.
We have simple definitions that fit in nicely with the popular idea of talent, like the one from Ana Herradon, Airport Systems Manager, who states that [...]

While surfing Steve Boese’s blog, which I strongly recommend, I came across a very interesting and rather ingenious post. It is surprising just how people who are passionate about their work are capable of reflecting on ordinary or even mundane deeds and convert them into something of great value.
In his post “Employee Scouting Reports” published [...]

They have just sent me this photo and after a good laugh, I couldn’t help but wonder the chaos that social networks trigger off in our “inner self”, or in terms of Web 2.0, in our “profile”. Or to be really precise, in our multiple profiles circulating in hyperspace. If we were only to have [...]