Leadership and People Management
What are the essential skills in the 21st century? A quick internet search suggests that these are skill sets that enable success in a globalized and technological world. As such, we can think of soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence, which all help to manage an increasingly collaborative and diverse work environment.…
Leadership and People Management
We are experiencing a rapid transformation of the world of work. Just within the few last years we have seen a dramatic increase in virtual work, gig work, different forms of collaborations beyond organizational boundaries, and artificial intelligence. All these changes guide new thinking about how work could and should be done, and organizations are…
Leadership and People Management
Five years ago I wrote about the automation of jobs, as it was already a prominent and somewhat anxiety provoking topic back then. In 2018 the general sense around automation was that even though robots are there to do more of the easier and ‘linear’ tasks, for example replacing cashiers in the grocery stores, more…
Leadership and People Management
In early 2021, labour markets witnessed a huge wave of job quitting, which was termed ‘The Great Resignation’, and much has been written about it. Now, we are approaching the end of 2022 with a newly emerged term, ‘quiet quitting´. In contrast with the ‘loud quitting’ of the resignation wave, ‘quiet quitting’ seems to be…
Entrepreneurship
• With a $26 trillion size globally in 2021, the retail sector is experiencing an adoption of technologies to improve consumers’ omnichannel experiences. • The "phygital” concept, growing in the retail industry, blends digital and physical experiences into one. • The startup WOW develops a sandbox of physical and digital spaces to test startup technologies.…
Leadership and People Management
As one of the Covid related jokes go, Covid happened to teach us how to properly wash our hands and keep the distance. Indeed, one may hope that the useful health and hygiene routines are here to stay even as the pandemic subsides. Covid also taught us how to work remotely, and what we can…
Leadership and People Management
Let me start by wishing you a good night’s sleep tonight! According to science there are not many other wishes that can trump this one… In his bestselling book about sleep, Matthew Walker, neuroscientist and the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, puts together a compelling case for…
Leadership and People Management
Expatriate experiences, and adjustment in particular, have been one of the most prominent research topics in the field of global mobility. Rightfully so, given the multitude of challenges that expatriates face, such as increased job responsibilities, excessive travel, major life changes, and dealing with cultural others. Industry surveys (e.g. Santa Fe Relocation) indicate that many…
Leadership and People Management
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Europe has been facing the fastest growing exodus of people since World War II. It is estimated that by now there are millions of refugees who have crossed Ukrainian borders, and many more people who had to relocate within the country. Refugees, by definition, are people who…
Leadership and People Management
Some time ago, when the Covid crisis unfolded, I wrote about global leadership lessons, as such instances of global disruptions have the capacity to reveal how leaders operate and who they really are. Currently, we are into the fourth month of Putin’s war in Ukraine. Zooming out from the real suffering and emotional burden of…
One of the things I am worry about is how this level of prices affect the development and spreading of clean energies. The lower oil prices, the more expensive costs in relative terms of cleaner sources of energies.
Oil Price will be reduce until KSA reach “his” breaking even Price of refine in “his” refineries (ARANCO), this price it´s around 8$ per barril. In addition the I. R. of Iran will be a “new” guest in this game, almost 500.000 new barril wil be in the next 4-6 month and another adicionals 1.000.000 barrils (may be…) will be ready to sell. If the daily consum is 90M of barrils and the I.R. of Iran consumption is 1.7M, where is one over production of 1.5M. It´s very clear that in less of one year, over production will be of 3M per day…price will fall down until…10-15$ (my feeling)
In addition my opinión is the oil to burn has no future, oil will be refine in plastics, self home consumption will be introduce, slow or fast, but in close future will be normal in many roof buildings see small wind propelers and solar panels to produce electritity to move ej lift motors, general lights of the building and self consumption at homes…we will need less oil to be burned (used) in cars, etc. My daughters will not drive a Otto cicle car…
In my opinion, this lower price level affects the adoption of green alternative energies worldwide. I think the Saudi Kingdom might change its policy, since it started to have a huge budget deficit last year- around $98 billion! The Saudis have already announced plans to reduce their record budget deficit with spending cuts.