Posts Tagged ‘References’

Learning agility, the future of management?

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 [...]

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Resilience, a new buzzword in Human Resources

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 of [...]

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In the clouds, trying to understand the terminology

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 [...]

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