Almost 28 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are still walls being built right under our noses and so many others with which we keep bumping into, bumping our heads. So we often move in the wrong direction, or else we sit, hands on our heads, powerless.

E-commerce has an impact on consumer behaviour and buying habits. One of these impacts happens in the preparation and creation of shopping lists and the importance of the order in which products arrive on those lists.

The impact of forces external to organisational management will be felt in leadership, business structure, culture and human resource practices. The reality is that the way we work is already transforming and the strategic role of people management is moving towards building a humanistic culture.

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.

In the new normal, entrepreneurship will need a new generation of leaders who are able to adapt and have an ongoing learning mindset.

For decades, organisations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace, albeit with little success. Despite the fact that studies and business cases show that it is desirable and beneficial to have women in top positions in organisations, in Portugal, as in the rest of the world, there is still a marked under-representation of women in decision-making and leadership positions in organisations.