
Silicon Valley Bankruptcy... what a pity!
Founded in 1983, SVB has always targeted the universe of start-ups in the legendary Silicon Valley [...]
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The 7 Capital Sins of Dreary Offices
It sounds like a broken record on a slow turntable... the hallowed (damned) home office remains on the agenda in the politically-correct [...]
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The Age of Information and the Age of Artificial Intelligence
What changes can we expect in our organizations from the widespread adherence to Artificial Intelligence resources [...]
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Adiós Muchachos... ‘} | {,
Massive layoffs have always been (are, and will be) controversial... and painful.Notwithstanding the existence of well-established best [...]
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Published February 28, 2023
The typewriter in the boom of ChatGPT
A surprise! A typewriter? “Yes, I want to write my ideas and create stories on a typewriter”! That was what my 9-year-old niece wanted as a gift [...]
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Published February 14, 2023
Bonds without Hugs
Thepandemic is over… the agony, in turn… seems endless. Throughoutthe world, people are in no rush [...]
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Published February 14, 2023
Meet your new coworkers: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and Bard
In the history of humankind, in different contexts, the same phenomenon repeats in cycles: the force of the technological-scientific innovation [...]
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Published February 1, 2023
To Come or Not to Come As You Are?
Many years ago, the CEO of one of the largest listed Brazilian companies asked me a puzzling question: how to convince that great [...]
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Published January 31, 2023
Overdose Digital
High-Tech, High-Touch... motto or dilemma? The expression initially coined to describe the challenge [...]
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Published December 12, 2022
The King is Immortal! Long live the King!
There are characters that go beyond their times and circles... and transcend... Such occurred to some (not all) [...]
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Published November 29, 2022
Gil + Ney
50 years. That is the age difference between Gil (aged 80) and Neymar (aged 30). One of the several differences between two Brazilian [...]
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Published October 21, 2022
Filtered Universes
On the charming Santa Teresa hill, Jacobina shared with friends her view on the existence of two souls in each human being [...]
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Published October 19, 2022
Ctrl+R! Pleasure, Beta, and Abundance
There is no useful reflection about organizations with a view only focused on their internal issues. Organizations are set [...]
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Published October 5, 2022
Why do organizations exist?
Hard to envision a world without organizations! All dimensions of our lives revolve around some sort of organization [...]
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Published September 8, 2022
Elizabeth bid the Queen good-bye
Constitutional monarchies are Darwinist adaptations of absolute monarchies. No emperor relinquishes [...]
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Published August 26, 2022
Engagement in Persective
Engagement is certainly one of the drivers behind high-performance teams. The latent question [...]
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Published August 12, 2022
Hide-and-Sheek
Absenteeism has always been a huge challenge to the productive human activities. From the earliest [...]
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Soft?!?
At some moment, for some reason, it became standard to call the mostintrinsic human skills soft skills [...]
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Filtred Universe
What lenses are used to see the surrounding universe? Lenses are the reflection of the personal [...]
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Learning to Pray
There often are inconsistencies between quantitative surveys and observable behaviors. Replying something [...]
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No pain, No hype
Our perspectives are notably influenced by personal preferences, peer pressures and unconscious [...]
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Toxic Culture: Myths and Truths
These days, it has alreadybecome commonplace to say that such and such organization [...]
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Artificial Productivity
Mental health has been an important and recurrentissue lately and the subject of several forums. With the pandemic [...]
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Peter Pan... Too Soon to Moon
A commotion! At least apparently... Layoffs promoted bystartups powered by high-profile fund-raising [...]
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Disruptions, Fissures and Threads
After so much effort put into the global integration in the decades preceding the Soviet meltdown [...]
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Where is Andrea?
Leadership can be a very abstract concept. At the same time, and many times, it manifests itself [...]
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Corporate Activism 4.0
Society is always full of taboos – some for the offense to the habits and customs, others for the semantic [...]
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Are you safe working from home?
The future of work hasbrought us important reflections about historical contradictions, unprecedentedpossibilities [...]
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People Like Us
Fundamentals arefundamentals because they are fundamental. Nonetheless, not always arefundamentals [...]
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BlackRock, the Elephant and the Green
The week’s most dramatic headline... elicited both favorable and contrary emotions [...]
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Published October 16, 2021
Customer-Centricity in Community
How much is each customer worth? And what impact does that have on the company value? The generation of economic value has been [...]
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Published October 16, 2021
The Future of Work: Arenas & Dilemmas
Reflecting on the future of work involves the very word "work". Its origin related to effort and sacrifice [...]
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Published October 16, 2021
New Rules of the Game
New arena. New players. New vectors. New rules. Today, the digital world revolves around artificial intelligence [...]
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Published September 19, 2021
Stormy Seas
Popular wisdom always says after a storm comes a calm, but that there is a calm before the storm [...]
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Published September 19, 2021
Countdown
"I never understood why so many people fear the future. I have never seen the future kill anyone [...]"
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Published September 19, 2021
One For All; All For None
Yes. A very exotic title :) One For All would be commonplace enough [...]
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Published September 19, 2021
Paper Ocean Liners
Every organization - and, yes, I mean ALL – is subject to Death Valleys [...]
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Published September 16, 2021
Dead Heroes!
Heroes and Heroines are part of the mythological constructs that give meaning to our beliefs, values and relationships [...]
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Published September 15, 2021
The Nature of the Octopus
How many faces (or rather, how many tentacles) does an octopus have? Business management [...]
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Published September 15, 2021
REMOTE, BUT NOT REMOVED
It is no news the world is going through increasingly faster and more disruptive changes [...]
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Published September 09, 2021
Strategus
At times of new interpretations and perspectives for classic concepts, the meaning of expression strategy [...]
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Published 09 September, 2021
Streaming
Far from being something new, close to being an unanimity. The recurrent consumption of subscription content has spread everywhere [...]
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Published August 23, 2021
THE END OF THE APATHETIC ORGANIZATIONS?
Worker’s health and wellness have become a human right in modern age, an ethical question for corporations that [...]
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Performance as the Customer Wants It
A few years ago, witnessing the end of the undisputable hegemony at the Olympic Games [...]
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Saddled Horse
This is a (rare)autobiographical piece. Atins was the idyllicsetting of this family adventure. A pause for reflection, connection [...]
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Bile
Simone Biles is the sensation of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. Tough times. The Olympic Games that did not respect the century-old calendar [...]
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Roto "Frayed"
Social relationships are part of complex fabrics that contain signs [...]
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The future: A horizon of possibilities
In social memory, World War II was the last event to deeply shake the whole humanity [...]
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Interstice
It is still early to propose some thoughtful summary of the hostile [...]
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The loss of the expected future: Collective confrontation of grief
Scientists have been indicating the risk we are already [...]
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ETHICS OF ADAPTABILITY: THE LEADER AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
In 2020, with the arrival of the pandemic [...]
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Collaboration: Conviction or Convenience
Collaboration is one of those quintessential Aristotelian competencies.
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Titanomachy
Mergers or acquisitions used to be a cataclysm in development cultures. [...]
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Dwarfs & Elves: Narratives and Myths
Yes. We can learn a lot from fairy tales in the corporate world. [...]
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Ethics of Survival and Commitment: The Leader in the Crisis
Professionals of crisis management exist. And they are technically exceptional. [...]
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Culture: Hero or Villain of Digital Transformation
There is no digital transformation possible without cultural transformation. [...]
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The Future of Work
The World Economic Forum recently published the report The Future of Jobs. [...]
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Neuroscience behind communication
We have just started a new series talking about language. At this historical pandemic moment [...]
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Crystal Squared Minds
Pandemic times are extremely painful for everyone. Lost of dearest lives are the ultimate suffering for all of us. [...]
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Published February 25, 2021
Lucidity and Ephemeral
The lucidity: clearness; state of being a lucid person, who understands well, expresses his ideas with clarity, uses his mental faculties perfectly. [...]
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Published February 25, 2021
The Playful Look and the Golden Path
There will always be Wizards of Oz in front of fascinated “Dorothies”. [...]
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Published February 25, 2021
Rookie: New Employee Socialization
The dilemma is clear and dense: the social group that initiated the formation of the culture will not be able to advance alone [...]
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Published February 8, 2021
MATRIX
The Matrix scientific fiction trilogy instigates us to reflect on surreal questions: would we be living in a playful layer among many other possible layers of the universal reality?
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Published October 26, 2020
The Slow Down Puzzle
Yes. The Universe is continuously expanding. The human mind, too. [...]
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Published October 7, 2020
The Void Voice
Modern world is weird by design. New ideas. New technologies. […]
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Published August 21, 2020
2020: Endurance Test-Drive
2020 seemed to be a magic year! We usually make plans […]
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Published August 7, 2020
Mind the Gap!
Social connections require time to be constructed. Long lasting relationships [...]
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Back to the (same) Game
In pandemic times, our cognitive bias are even more exalted. […]
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Glue in Unsafe Times
Productivity and involvement are essential […]
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Culture versus Bubbles
Intense crises stir up apocalyptic narratives in the general imaginary. […]
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Management of Time
The isolation brought learnings for the companies […]
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Two Faces of the Same Currency
Leadership and Culture are faces of the same currency. […]
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#speakeasy
During the 1920’s golden years, the United States had been the stage of one of the largest […]
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Human Relations
The organizational structures are relatively [...]
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Published April 22, 2020
Nexus Desconstruction
Unexpected crises produce abrupt changes of paradigms [...]
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TINA
The financial market uses the TINA expression (THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE) [...]
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Strategic CHRO?! Now it is your turn!
“You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails of the boat to arrive where you want.” Confucius [...]
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Deciphering the Economics Language…
Giving opinion on the destinations of a Nation is to sail on economic perspectives. [...]
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Published March 31, 2020
Are you a Scourged Leader?
A surreal situation to a leader is to lead no one. [...]
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Published March 23, 2020
Brazil after the Flu!
The Covid-19 became a landmark in the history of the humanity!
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Published March 20, 2020
Psychological Contract between Individual and Organization
The relation between the individual and the organization [...]
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Published March 18, 2020
World after Corona Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Lebanon-American author of the classic “The Black Swan Theory” [...]
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Published March 17, 2020
Virus, Memes, Herd Immunity and Bias
A global commotion with the expansion of coronavirus is an interesting social [...]
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Published March 13, 2020
Extra! Extra! Virus Conspiracies!
Conspiracy theories had already been more thought- provoking!
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Published March 13, 2020
Sneezes & Neurosis
The WHO declared some days ago the pandemic status for the well-known Coronavirus. [...]
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Organizations in Fashion
Organizations are inserted in wide and dynamic context, incomprehensible in its totality [...]
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Published February 19, 2020
Yoda
There would be no Luke Skywalker without Yoda. [...]
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Published February 18, 2020
The Autistic Company
The autism spectrum disorder is a rare neurological illness that compromises the capacity of communication and social [...]
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Published February 17, 2020
How to Work Better with Peers
The relation with the boss had always been to a large extent determinative for the success of individuals inside the organization. [...]
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Published February 10, 2020
PARETO, WALRAS, PIGOU AND P2P SOCIAL APPLICATION
Fact: The use of social application became ubiquitous in the urban quotidian of the 21st century. [...]
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Published February 3, 2020
Cultural Paradoxes in the Digital World
It is a fact that the speed of the digital world only accelerate. [...]
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Published December 16, 2019
Adjusting the Direction and preparing the Compass for 2020
After 6 years of crisis, 2019 finishes with some signals of economic recovery. [...]
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Published December 4, 2019
Logic of the Myths
The lack of objective references for subjective questions and the unconscious distress favors the use of the myth to explain the incognoscible reality. [...]
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Published November 18, 2019
Utilitarian Humanity
Humanoids are apparently human beings, although they are not. Originary from the scientific fiction [...]
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Published November 7, 2019
Good bye XX Century!
The XX Century is the century of the great corporations.
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Published November 7, 2019
Living Organisms
The metaphor on living organisms is not original.
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Published September 4, 2019
The historical transition from Profane to Digital
The tension between the sacred and the profane is directly related to the human [...]
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Published September 3, 2019
Subcultures: Epiphytes or parasites?
Subcultures do not need to be a problem for the preservation of the social patterns [...]
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Published August 28, 2019
Far beyond the cash flow: the economic Crisis and the Organizations
During the crisis periods, administrators and economists [...]
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Form versus Function: That is the Question!
There are no universal models to organizational drawing.
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