The New Year beckons, and as always, it’s an opportunity to take stock of progress and reflect on the big goals you’ve set for the year ahead. We’ve gathered five key trends, from accelerating sustainable development (the 2030 Agenda is just around the corner), to facing the impact of artificial intelligence. Origen: 5 key trends [...]
As geopolitical tensions spike and the global economy continues to fracture, several powerful forces and trends threaten to impede GDP growth, leading to social and political instability. Policymakers and investors will need to adjust to an era of heightened uncertainty and increasing fragmentation. Origen: The Eight Headwinds Threatening Global Growth in 2025 by Dambisa Moyo - [...]
The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Origen: Mind-Reading and Neuroplasticity: In Conversation With Neurologist Alvaro Pascual-Leone | The MIT Press Reader excerpts from the linked interview Adolfo: Your more recent reflections on brain plasticity, particularly how it shapes our perception of time due to the brain’s constant [...]
Leo con preocupación en Economía•3, cómo …las tensiones geopolíticas provocaron en 2023 el mayor aumento en el gasto militar global desde 2009, de acuerdo con un informe del Instituto Internacional de Estocolmo para la Investigación de la Paz (Sipri)… Parece que el viejo axioma "si vis pacem, para bellum", sigue vigente. Y yo sigo sin [...]
¿Qué diferencias hay entre el interim manager y la consultoría o la contratación permanente? La diferencia principal con la consultoría es que el interim manager ocupa un puesto directivo. No solo define la estrategia, sino que la ejecuta. El consultor asesora, pero en ningún caso ocupa un puesto concreto. El interim está muy centrado en [...]
Belleza, libertad, individuo y verdad, conceptos escurridizos que muchos pensadores han tratado de comprender. Las definiciones ayudan a la par que limitan en la titánica tarea de entender el mundo. Cuando piensas que lo tienes, surge una nueva pregunta. El cuestionar te hace consciente de que los cimientos no son tan sólidos como pensabas. Origen: [...]
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” ~ Roy Amara Origen: 🚀 My outlook for 2024 - Exponential View by Azeem Azhar It was roughly a decade ago when the giants of the oil age were surpassed by silicon stars, Apple [...]
“A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning” … show us that psychological richness is the kind of wealth that can contribute to a truly good life. Oishi and Westgate define a psychologically rich life as “a life characterized by a variety of interesting and perspective-changing experiences.” Origen: Beyond Happiness: Why a Psychologically Rich Life [...]