Compare and Contrast the Arguments of Gardner (2008) to Those of Fernández-Aráoz (2014). What Skills Are Most Important for Success in the 21st Century? and Why?

In an increasingly global world, with more relationships and more opportunities to share and disseminate, it is necessary to find new tools in talent management policies of companies. And there are complex questions to resolve for human resources experts, what is happening with the talent? What talents will be needed in the future? In this sense, and to try to answer these questions, the authors Gardner and Fernández-Aráoz can help with these 2 articles, and exhibit in a certain way, the evolution in the search for talent and what an individual should grow for the future.

In the first article, Gardner, describes different types of mind that an individual should grow in the future. To explain this, the author makes an evolution from past to present on the education acquired by men. The five minds that are described based on the premise that education and training can create people with these attitudes. Gardner says -“with these “minds”, as I refer to them, a person will be well equipped to deal with what is expected, as well as what cannot be anticipated; without these minds, a person will be at the mercy of forces that he or she can’t understand”-.1

So which are these five minds? First, the Disciplined Mind, able to master the main distinctive ways of thinking that created the human being, science, mathematics and technology, but also the history, philosophy and the arts. As well, mastering various means to further his education. Secondly, the Synthetic Mind, achieving that in situations of excessive information, we should be able to summarize accurately, in a productive way and make it useful for us. Third, the Creative Mind, since in the future, virtually everything will be governed by rules and made more quickly and accurately by computers, consideration shall be given to creative people able to discover new phenomena and innovation, thinking out of the box. Fourth, the Respectful Mind, this has always been desirable, educate people to at least be tolerant with those who have a different appearance or behavior. If we cannot learn to live with each other, the planet will soon be depopulated. And the last one, the Ethical Mind, because ethics is concerned with the form of society, people should be able to educate and inspire a worldview marked by integrity.

Each of these minds is difficult to achieve and on reality, no one knows exactly how to develop an education that produces disciplined people, synthesizing, creative, respectful and ethical. Gardner points out that the survival of our planet may depend on the cultivation of these five minds and that education for the future should help more people understand the best qualities of the best human beings.

In the second article, the author Fernández-Aráoz, is critical to the way of selection according to skills, noting that the experience has been overestimated, and what really matters is the individual's potential, defined as