Preparing Human Resources for Global Competition

Abstract

This lecture is intended for the business graduate school students who will eventually find themselves as human
resources in a corporate work environment in the 21st century. The New Year 2024 ushers the end of a Great Period
of Change (2012-2023) in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world and the Age of Upheaval in
business, where our human condition, according to Br. Armin Luistro, FSC, is Finite, Fragile and Free. For the new
graduate, being antifragile means resilience in facing daunting challenges and being an agent who strives for total
development to meet challenges with personal diligence to achieve avowed short- and long-term goals for corporate
survival. More importantly, it is critical for the new graduate to realize that s/he is an empowered individual who is
99.999 percent spirit and .001 percent body, described as such by quantum physicists: Bruce Lipton, Sean Carroll, Joe
Dispenza, James Ray and Neale Donald Walsch. The graduate is therefore encouraged to create a Personal Vision and
Mission, using Alan Seale’s meditation formula and craft her/his true purpose and strategic life direction anchored to
the supernatural, metaphysical, and physical/natural realities of human experience. In corporate practice, the graduate
may encounter two leadership style: a manager-centered leader described in Managerial Grid or employee-centered
leader in Situational Leadership.