Love: the key virtue of the best leadership

What are the personal virtues that distinguish great leaders? The years go by and this classic question of management and Human Resources management is still on top today. In the era of post-truth, the easy influence on social networks has generated a worrying shortage of leaders. Franz Heukamp (Dean of IESE) recently stated in a […]

Key attributes of a successful professional: learnings from Nadal and Federer

The sport is an excellent field to extract learnings applicable to every company, especially in relation to leadership, motivation and results. High performance athletes optimize their body and technical resources and acquire new and rapid skills to reach a high competitive level. Elements that are also very valuable to improve labor employability and business competitiveness. […]

How to improve your work employability and personal branding? 10 tips

The world of work today is increasingly polarized into winners and losers in terms of employability. And the near future will not be more friendly: 7 million jobs will be lost worldwide between 2015 and 2020 according to the Davos Forum and more than half of the existing jobs in a few years are unknown […]

10 myths about digital transformation

10 mitos sobre la transformación digital

It is clear that digital transformation is one of the great management challenges of the coming years. Its impact is profound and generates changes in business models and critical business processes, greater interaction with the external customer and, as a consequence, requires new styles of leadership and organizational culture. I share below 10 ideas that […]

Scarcity Of Leaders: 20 ideas for improvement

Scarcity of Leaders: 20 ideas for improvement Leadership continues to be a fundamental issue as a competitive advantage for the success of companies and societies in these times of transformation and turbulence. Addressing this topic again may seem “repetitive” as so much has already been written about it. However there are two factors I consider […]

Digitalization: 10 key success factors

Digitalization is a hot topic in management due to its relevant impact on different business sectors and the way people are managed. Various surveys indicate that digitalization is already one of the main issues facing managers as it is a new and complex subject that questions key management paradigms. In this article, we will be sharing […]

10 paradoxes of the labour market: impact on results and employee engagement

It is obvious that the business world and labour market are in a process of profound transformation. By way of example, the Davos Forum predicts that digitalization will lead to a decrease of some 5 million jobs worldwide by 2020 (http://ow.ly/CCqj304YP3L). In their analysis (which I personally hope is excessively pessimistic), the creation of 2.1 […]

20 barriers to face for a successful professional development

In my career as an HR manager, I have encountered two contradictory realities regarding professional development which have inspired me to write the present article: – Few directors or employees had doubts or failed to support the implementation of individual development plans (IDP) in the framework of a positively valued modern people management style. That […]

Coworking: a tool for productivity and employee engagement

Published in Observatorio de RH (The HR Observatory) – July 2016 Origins of coworking and its rapid evolution Founded in Berlin in 1995, C-base was one of the world’s first hacklabs: a community-operated workspace for people actively interested in science, new technologies and the digital world, providing a scenario for them to meet and work […]