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.
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.
The success of an entrepreneurship project depends on a number of factors coming together to solve the existence of a problem - this is called having an idea and should be the first step of any entrepreneur. Read on and discover 5 ways to have ideas based on Applied Knowledge!