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.

Note: 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.

Of all the wonderful things we are taught throughout our lives, why aren't we also taught to think? Is it because it is believed that we will learn to think, naturally, like breathing? Or by imitating others, like pressing the buttons of a shirt? But how do others think so well? Did someone, before, teach them how to think?

Science fiction films about the migration of the human species to other planets in space may be about to become a reality. And that transition will require a sustainable economy, on and off Earth. Do you realise the potential of the space market?