HUMAN TALENT

The Human Talent: Base of a sustainable competitiveness

Competitiveness, if it is understood appropriately, is the root of the prosperity. The central idea of competitiveness is a productiveness. Every place, every nation, has geographically some resources, including the people who lives there. The form as it is lived is the form as they take advantage of these resources. This determines wages and works. The competitiveness is the real route of the prosperity.

Colombia at present is in a moment of prosperity (Agreement with Canada, earring TLC with the United States, ratification of the Agreement with the European Community) where the competitiveness has to be a common target of the whole managerial textile. According to the GCI (Global Competitiveness Index), Colombia has raised five positions and there is now in the position 67 (of 133).

To deal with all his dimension what means competitiveness, I believe that it is necessary to stop in this index, since it allows us to understand as this one he contributes to the prosperity, in a long period of a country. It raises us that the competitive countries are those that before economic difficult environments do not turn out to be affected, since the props that shape his factors of competitiveness allow to assure his productiveness, not in the short one but in a long term, which assures the present and future prosperity in spite of the economic cycles.