Business & Strategy

Corporate governance is a work carried out by people, and people make mistakes. You can minimise the opportunities for them to make mistakes, but you cannot guarantee that they never do.

Football is the sport that adds the most fans in Portugal. I've lived here for over 20 years and I can't remember seeing a nation suffer as much as in the last 15 minutes of the game against France in the last European championship. Deep down any Portuguese man and woman thought that, even though they were winning, everything could go wrong. But, this time, it didn't.

Following Karl Weick's advice (who advocates that if you want to learn about organisations, study something else), the leadership professors at Nova SBE Executive Education brought together a class and five experts from each domain to study successful teams in sport, music and elite forces. The lines that follow are the result of several discussion sessions, with the ambitious agenda of understanding the ingredients that make up a successful team.

We followed the experience of João Silva, Director of the Millennium BCP Prestige Centre, who invested in the General Management Course (CGG) to make up for the lack of knowledge in the area of Management, where he hopes to transpose all the knowledge and networking acquired into his professional life, becoming a more complete professional and able to pass on additional skills to his teams.

We follow the experience of Joana Rivotti, a medical doctor by training, who decided to completely change her professional path and participated in the General Management Course (GGC) to acquire new skills and experience good networking in the expectation that new doors will open to start her own business.

We followed the experience of Dionora Botelho, a professional in the insurance sector, who was looking to enrich her professional path and experience with a more up-to-date academic training. After a search for the ideal programme, the General Management Course (CGG) stood out for its innovative aspect and the transversal way in which it responds to the main areas within the management of an organisation.