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).

If we analyse the most creative ideas in the history of humanity, we can see that they are ideas that were born from a combination of realities that already existed. Paula Marques explains why.

Specialisation and compartmentalisation (or fragmentation) of knowledge is both one of the great virtues and one of the greatest pitfalls of our time, but are they always effective?

With the recent focus on family constitutions (also known as 'constitutive acts' or 'protocols'), some family firms think this is the magic formula that will help them stay together, forever, in business.

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.

Judgment & Decision-Making (JDM) and Complex Problem-Solving (CPS) are among the key skills the world needs for the fourth industrial revolution (HolonIq, 2019, World Economic Forum, 2018).

In a context of accelerated transformation it is not enough to "understand a lot about my business". It is increasingly important to understand the world around us and how changes in this world can constitute risks or opportunities for the project at hand.