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Location: Madrid Spain
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Ph.D in Sociology, MBA and psychologist.
Private and glider pilot, I teach Human Resources in Instituto de Empresa and I work in human factors issues in high risk environments, especially air safety and nuclear safety.
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[...]. However, since this is a book for the international market, I think that a praise in Amazon, made by an interested observer and born in Spain, should be more valuable.
Anyone interested in the recent history of Spain can reach a conclusion: Almost all the specialists lie.
There are different ways to lie:
One of them is having a previous political position and accepting, omitting or downplaying facts according to this position. Many specialists as Tuñón de Lara, Paul Preston, Ricardo de la Cierva, Pio Moa and some others could be under this chapter. Anyone familiar with the works of these writers can observe that the tendencies in some of them… Read more
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Coming from someone who studied with Luria, the results were expected to be very high.
The most important part is the clear and interesting explanation about how the brain changes the learning process as time goes by.
There are some corollaries that could be extracted from that. For instance, people with different ages could be better fitted for specific tasks than other people and why.
Other important consequence should be the fact that our learning style during maturity is going to depend strongly on our learning style in earlier times.
This part, that could be extremely interesting, is underdeveloped. It seeems that the author tries to… Read more
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This book is to be read by anyone really interested about how organizations work.
The main point could be explained in a single sentence: We can get valuable lessons if we pay attention to organizations who work in high risk and unpredictable environments.
This is my own view and, actually, I tried to show this using aviation as a kind of learning field. That is why I hope the authors will be lucky. My own experience was unsuccessful and that itself shows that the authors are right.
When I started to get conclusions from aviation to business management, I found that the more interested people came precisely from aviation. I'm afraid the authors could… Read more
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