Miguel Pina e Cunha and Arménio Rego launch new book in October. As a pre-publication, we make available to our readers some extracts from this new work, "Paradoxes of Leadership", where the authors address and dwell on how to manage contradictions, dilemmas and tensions of organizational life.

Miguel Pina e Cunha and Arménio Rego launch new book in October. As a pre-publication, we make available to our readers some extracts from this new work, "Paradoxes of Leadership", where the authors address and dwell on how to manage contradictions, dilemmas and tensions of organizational life.

Following the launch of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2020 (GTCI), which took place on 22 January at the Davos summit in Switzerland, and in partnership with Tata Communications and Insead, Adecco, a company specialised in outsourcing human resources and temporary work, highlighted the five trends in the world of work and puts forward some advice so that you know how to act on each of them.

And suddenly, people, teams and organisations had to adapt! We all know how much adaptation costs. At different times in our lives adaptation has been present. Organisations have long created contingency plans to cope with sudden adaptation needs. Many of us have plans A and plans B, for an adaptation to career management situations, to family life management, even to dinner plans.

Covid-19 is a frightening anomaly. But it is more frightening than "anomaly". The norm, or the new normal, seems to be that of permanent epidemic threat: the World Health Organization tracked 1438 epidemics between 2011 and 2018. Hyper-urbanisation and climate change make pandemics and other ecological hazards more pressing. It is therefore important that we collectively prepare for this reality - to which organisations, including business ones, will naturally continue to be subjected. The optimism that developed after the previous crisis was "overcome" is now being overcome by the pessimism that comes from another crisis, this one perhaps more worrying for our existence.