I am surprised how often we tend to apply ideal expectations’ frameworks to interactions whose outcomes we rationally acknowledge that are hard to be controlled. We like for example to apply the “fairness” label to all mechanisms governing our professional relations. If one side offers selfless commitment for a purpose, then it is expected to benefit … Continue reading
A friend of mine, HR top professional in a respected and admired multinational company, reading my posts, has thrown to me the following challenge: “What about switching focus? Can you write about re-inventing “important” in our lives? … starting from the premises that “you can’t have them all” as something will always come first, what … Continue reading
Have you ever read an article or piece of information about a particular subject which offered you the thrill of thinking outside the initial topic covered, opening to you new analytic dimensions and making you reach conclusions that would impact your further professional choices? To me such a situation happened in July 2010, almost two … Continue reading
Some news from Sweden: Downtown Stockholm was filled on Wednesday (Feb. 26, 2014) with some 61,000 persons looking for a job. http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_307437/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=W010hcU7 The people were accidentally invited through a mass email sent out by Sweden’s public employment service that was trying to arrange a meeting between job seekers and potential employers. The machine that most probably … Continue reading
It is maybe in human nature to wish to reach a zone we are comfortable with (socially, economically or just simply personally). The natural tendency for the many is to try to remain in that zone once they’ve reached it. Few are fighting to push further the barriers while even fewer are actually changing the … Continue reading
It is the 24th evening of an unexpected warm December, closing an “interesting” 2018, a year with a lot of stories that impacted my personal and professional life. Among them, is the one of talented people willing to return in the corporate world after an either entrepreneurial or sabbatical break. The discussions I had with … Continue reading
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