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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]