I recently attended a problem-solving workshop at Nova SBE Executive Education and learned that the top skills for modern times are Judgment & Decision-Making (JDM) [judgement and decision-making] (HolonIq, 2019) and Complex Problem-Solving (CPS) [complex problem-solving] (WEF, 2018).

In my conferences and trainings the expression "You are a people accelerator" started to be repeated. As I reflected on it, some questions came up right away.

It is increasingly difficult to ignore the ethical scandals that are continually being uncovered and presented in the media.

The high failure rate of change efforts - usually around two thirds - has motivated researchers and managers to pay increasing attention to change management. As this is a worrying statistic, several studies have been conducted since the 1990s only to find that this ratio, despite numerous efforts, persists.

Learning is a journey for life: personally and professionally. As such, one would expect investment in training to remain constant throughout one's professional career, but we are still a long way from that reality. In this context, the question that arises among executives is: why invest? In this article, we present 10 reasons why you should invest in your training, supported by the testimonials of Nova SBE executive training students.

We've already reached December and the spirit of the Christmas season is visible everywhere, including many offices.

The productivity of Portuguese companies is one of the greatest obstacles to the country's socio-economic progress. The indicators consistently show that we work too much and produce little value for each hour worked. This is a difficult problem to solve without any "magic wand", but in addition to structural economic measures and a collective effort to reward meritocracy and actively reject corruption and nepotism, we must improve the quality of our management.

The world of work is - always has been - changing. So, can we take for granted our knowledge of the laws that govern it? Should we keep an eye on labour law and the courts' answers, or is an efficient dose of common sense enough? In this article, I leave the answer to 20 of the most common legal labour questions in the corporate world.