JORGE MANUEL ZELAYA FAJARDO

By Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com January   29th, 2020     Clayton Magleby Christensen was a distinguished American academic and consultant who died a week ago at the age of 67 from cancer complications. I never had the opportunity to meet him personally, which is a real shame because I think I would have enjoyed receiving a class with him. However, I met him through his books and his lectures, his interviews and his writings. Christensen was that kind of intellectual who has all the qualities of a good human being. His diaphanous clarity and intellectual superiority reached the reader with a real and human sense. His   lines were always written to serve the student, reader or manager who read them. His tenure as professor of the Kim B. Clark   class of the Harvard Business School was obtained due, among other things, to a high     level intellectual background : Bachelor of Economics at Brigham Young Univer...

Por Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com Enero 29, 2020     Clayton Magleby Christensen fúe un distinguido académico y consultor norteamericano que falleció hace   una semana a la edad de 67 años por complicaciones de cáncer. Nunca tuve la oportunidad de conocerle personalmente, lo cual es una verdadera lástima porque creo   que hubiera disfrutado enormemente recibir una clase con él. Sin embargo, lo conocí a través de sus libros y sus conferencias, de sus entrevistas y de sus escritos. Christensen era ese tipo de intelectual que tiene todas las cualidades de un buen ser humano. Su diáfana claridad y superioridad intelectual llegaba al lector con   un sentido humano y real.   Sus líneas siempre eran escritas para servir al estudiante, lector o gerente que las leyera. Su titularidad como el profesor de la cátedra Kim B. Clark de la Escuela de Negocios de Harvard fue obtenida debido, entre otras cosas, a una formación int...

By Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com January 15th, 2020 Profitability is a financial vocabulary word that the Royal Spanish Academy of Language (RAE) defines as the ability to generate profit  or benefit. Therefore I will, in these brief lines, dare to extrapolate (to apply it to another level to conclude something) the word profitability to the issue of human error. One of the stories that most impressed me about the extraordinary professional career of Jack Welch (Executive Director of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, considered one of the most outstanding business leaders of all time) was when I read his book Straight from the Gut in 2002.   In the book he explains what had happened to him when a chemical plant, ran by him, accidentally blew up in 1963. Fortunately no one died in the incident nor was there any human damage. Jack Welch was convinced that he was going to be fired for what happened. The magnitude of the mi...

Por Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com Enero 15, 2020 Rentabilidad es un término del vocabulario financiero que la Real Academia Española de la Lengua (RAE) define como capacidad de generar beneficio, provecho o utilidad. Lo   anterior me lleva a   que en estas breves líneas me atreva a   extrapolar (aplicarla a otro plano para concluir algo) la palabra rentabilidad al tema del error humano. Uno de las historias que más me han impresionado sobre la extraordinaria carrera profesional de Jack Welch (Director Ejecutivo de General Electric de 1981 a 2001, considerado uno de los más sobresalientes líderes empresariales de todos los tiempos) fue cuando leí su libro Straight from the Gut (Hablando Claro en la versión en español)   en el año 2002 y en un pasaje explicaba lo que le había pasado a Welch cuando accidentalmente explotó una planta química en 1963. Afortunadamente nadie falleció en el incidente   ni hubo daños humanos...

By Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com October 15th, 2019 Last Saturday, October 12th, the entire world witnessed the writing of a new page in the history of world sport. On a misty morning in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria, the long-distance professional runner, Eliud Kipchoge , born in Kenya on November 5th, 1984, broke one of the "impossible" records in long-distance sports, for many years. His spectacular performance led him to run the distance of 42,195 k (26.22 miles) at 1:59:40, a record that although will not be considered as a new official brand (basically due to standards of competition rules in terms of pacers and fluids offered to the runner), has already been recognized by the Guinness World of Records as the first marathon distance run by a human being in history, in less than 2 hours. This athletic feat of epic dimensions, only brings to my mind the achievement of Roger Bannister, who on May 6th, 1954, managed to...

Por Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com Octubre 15, 2019 El pasado sábado 12 de octubre, la humanidad entera presenció cómo se escribía una nueva página en la historia del deporte mundial. En una brumosa mañana en la preciosa ciudad de Viena, Austria, el corredor profesional de larga distancia, Eliud Kipchoge , nacido en Kenia el 5 de noviembre de 1984, rompió uno de los récords ¨imposibles¨ en el deporte de larga distancia, por muchísimos años. Su espectacular desempeño lo llevó a correr la distancia de 42.195 k ( 26.22 millas) en 1:59:40 , un récord que aunque no será considerado como nuevo marca oficial ( debido básicamente a   estándares de las reglas de competencia en cuanto a corredores acompañantes y fluidos ofrecidos al corredor), ha sido reconocido ya por el Guinness World of Records   como la primera distancia de maratón corrida por un ser humano en la historia, en menos de   2 horas. Esta proeza atlética de dimensi...

By Jorge Manuel Zelaya Fajardo www.jorgemanuelzelaya.com October 1st, 2019 From a numerical point of view, 20 years could be defined as 7,300 days—or as an equivalent to 175,200 hours. From an emotional point of view, we can define it as a symphony of stories, experiences and learnings of all kinds. But, if we honor the brilliant German -Jewish physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) , relativity must be considered. This is because 20 years is an almost infinitesimal numerical value—compared to the 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang, or with the appearance of the human being on Earth (or its ancestors, properly speaking) 6 million years ago. By virtue of what I have mentioned, in these brief lines I would like to share something very special for me. In September 1999 (exactly 20 years ago) , I taught my first master's degree class in the higher education system in my country, Honduras. Although I started teaching very early ( English as a second language at my...