The concept of 'self-leadership' is becoming increasingly popular as leadership in organisations changes. Structures in companies are changing, with a trend towards horizontalisation, bringing more autonomy to employees, but also greater responsibility.
Tiago Godinho, Head of the Digital Experience Lab at Nova SBE, explains which are the biggest obstacles to the digital transition in small and medium-sized companies, and what is the key to trigger the transformation process.
Professor António Alvarenga explains why the construction and use of Scenarios (Scenario Planning & Thinking) is important for decision making and how this technique can help to avoid crises in the tourism sector.
What do top football players and top executives have in common? On the face of it, these two worlds seem totally different, but they have far more in common than differences. Just like athletes, leaders in organisations need to have a number of concerns in order to achieve high levels of output and performance.
As part of my recently completed Postgraduate Diploma in People and Talent Management at Nova School of Business & Economics, one of the individual papers I submitted for assessment (in January 2020) was on managing remote teams. This is a topic that has been dear to my heart for a long time; little did I know at the time I wrote about it that it would become of interest to so many people a few months later, unfortunately not for the best of reasons. I share parts of my essay here, in order to give a few more clues to those trying out this way of working for the first time.
Paula Marques explains why universal access to education is fundamental to "create free-thinking humans, really capable of understanding human values such as justice, freedom, democracy, love, honesty, dignity, compassion, courage, friendship, loyalty, respect, generosity, kindness".
Nuno da Silva Vieira believes that law firms have in digital transformation an opportunity to provide safer, more efficient, and client-centric legal services.
The words "sell" and "salesperson" are not sexy or necessarily positive, in fact they carry an extremely negative connotation. However, these people are key pawns in ensuring the sustainability of the business and selling is essential to generate profit.