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Human Capital Management | Corporate team building

There is that great idea, mainly defended by the big consulting and recruiting firms, that in an information and knowledge based economy, the most important thing for companies is attracting and retaining outstanding talented guys.

Obviously I will not say that is not important, but in my opinion a successful and innovative company cannot be built just from the accumulation of high talented people, as a great sports team can't be constructed only by the accumulation of great players.

It is more important to build teams of people that achieve the goals according to the company's entrepreneurial vision. It is necessary to create organizations where everybody (with outstanding talent or not) can develop their best personal capabilities and that these capacities are addressed to achieve the corporate goals and mission. The company efforts must be addressed to design an organisational system that generates and uses talent from everyone in the company.

Trying to get the best from our people through corporate team building policies, establishing a concrete corporate culture and values, making our company a place where people want to work because it is a good place to stay and develop their capacities, is the best way to compete in the knowledge economy. That will keep us out of the obligation to constantly seek for the "prima donnas" and entering in the retribution auctions.

We have to take into account that, nowadays, the real talented and creative people, like to work or engage themselves in projects where they can develop their capacities, they can be implicated in the organizational goals and vision, and where they are treated with respect and dignity. Definitively, they want to be happy doing their jobs. And we have to build organizations where they can find that.


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talented people realy want to build their capacity and the capacity of other interactors they relate with.

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About the Author

Francesc Llobet is an Internet entrepreneur and a strategy business consultant in the fields of innovation, internet marketing and ebusiness.
Based in Barcelona, Catalonia (European Union), he is the founder of Sappiens.com, The Knowledge Community and Founder and CEO of Adverstore.com, Advertising for everyOne!. He maintains InnovationThink, eMarketingThink OnlineAdvertisingThink and A Startup Story, blogs where he writes on Innovation, Internet Marketing, Advertising and Startups. To know more..

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