Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage

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alberto-blanco's picture

Adaptable companies do the very hard work of discovering what their business is really about. The answer to that question is in most cases elusive or counterintuitive.

If you ask an average car-making company for instance, what its business is about, they will probably tell you: -“making and selling cars,...

By Alberto Blanco on June 5, 2022
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A community is a group of people, who deeply care about a common interest or purpose (achieving a resonating goal, belonging to something that matters, preserving something people love, sharing a particular worldview, or simply having fun). Some of its main characteristics are:

  • It emerges spontaneously (cannot be externally
  • ...
By Alberto Blanco on June 5, 2022

Unfortunately we are being conditioned by the daily news where "evil" seems ths leading force of success. Our human condition limits us from being crystal clear as we would like, and the "others" interpretations are inevitably incomplete.

Shall we and, can we, be more positively oriented? Can we stop debating...

By Aldo Montefiore on June 2, 2022

None of these principles can work with low levels of people engagement.  Adaptable organisations will depend on the emotional commitment of their people.  Yes, engagement can be sustained by these principles of adaptability but shifting people from a 'normal distribution' of engagement - 20% engaged, 20% disengaged, 60% going with the...

By John Swannick on June 1, 2022
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Regardless of one’s worldview (creation or evolution), if at all there is one agreement among most religious scholars, it is the fact that, the universe came into existence with a spoken word or energy of God, which then, not only, created the human resources, but also, put the  nature's energy...

kev-wyke's picture

A key principle of adaptabiity is understanding, and keeping right in front of us at all times, our Purpose, the reason why we do what we do, the reason why our organisation exists, that great and wonderful thing that we are setting out to achieve. Purpose is central to understanding...

By Kev Wyke on May 30, 2022

Business enterprise exists to delight customers through purposeful creation and application of knowledge.

Integrated Talent Management underwrites performance in every organizational...

By Richard Melrose on May 29, 2022

My source of inspiration is Victor Frankel's book " Man's search for meaning" . I believe it is a must read for HR professionals and all leaders. In the age of "informing ourselves to death" (credit belongs to my teacher Prof. Neil Postman) people drown in data and information and...

By Edna Pasher on May 28, 2022