Agile and lean methods are transforming the management culture worldwide. People will be not working, they will be enjoying life as they work. When I decided to change the home page of my website and include this picture upfront, I thought for myself – why are you doing this? I […]

Everyone knows that an independent review is worth a lot more than any paid publicity and when it comes to making a purchase decision people tend to follow the former rather than the latter. This is why I like to read all the latest reviews from The Verge about visual collaboration technology […]

Yes, it’s not a typo. I often write about GDSS – Group Decision Support Systems – (I have actually a Linkedin group on the subject here) but the title of this article is correct. I was going to name it ‘Miro vs StormBoard’, two novel tools for visual collaboration but changed […]

You can transform an organization by creating a workshop-driven culture, where employee and customers’ participation drives engagement. What are virtual workshops and when to use them? How to design and execute them and what kind of methods and techniques are commonly used? Business workshops instead of old style meetings are […]

I will be exposing my vision on the development of research and projects in the field of Entrepreneurship as an academic field and my narrative will consist of three parts, the current pains, the diagnostic and the recommendation for a course of action. Universities linger in the kind of state […]

I am occasionally tempted to become a bit of a professor, having been an organizational psychology teacher for a few years at ISEG, the Lisbon School of Economics and Management. This urge happened today and I could not resist amending this slide: In the military, I used to pull ranks […]

The notion of “a meeting” will end up being re-invented soon, pretty much as e-mail (as a technology) becomes obsolete. I am always amazed at the cross-fertilization opportunities whenever I am in touch with the event industry (MICE) meeting architects. That will be the case next week at The Fresh […]

In the workplace, collaboration is not necessarily something useful we all should be trying to achieve. A fancy office equipped with all the latest collaboration technologies does not necessarily mean you will end being a more collaborative organization. If a proper collaborative work culture is not in place it is […]

Because I am an organizational psychologist with an academic specialization in GDSS and only 0.0071% of the world population knows about my field of practice. Let’s make a quick test, if you already know what is a GDSS (Group Decision Support System) please stop reading. See? if you are still […]

It is so unfortunate that the only time I was considering exchanging my iPhone for a Samsung model this is precisely the one I am not allowed to use on board planes due to the risk of explosion. But the airline industry is one of the safest in the world […]