Challenges of the global economy in the decade 2020-2030
In these days of confinement I have been reading the book Crisis Economics written by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm in 2010. Roubini analyses in detail the most relevant economic crises experienced in our recent history since the 19th century and the economic policies applied to contain them. Although each crisis is different, there are [...]
There is hope for hope?
I never thought that the context in which I wrote about boards of directors in Spain was so critical, unexpected, sad, and with such an uncertain future. Therefore, what I am going to give here is my opinion, since with all humility I admit that I feel incapable of anticipating what will be the future [...]
Human sociability pre and post-COVID-19
Human sociability is a fact of common experience. Since prehistoric times, the social appears as a characteristic of human life that implies union and coexistence in order to survive. There are many evidences of the fact that human beings live and coexist in society, but what is the origin of this human sociability? Basically there [...]
Challenges for the global economy in the decade 2020-2030
During these days of confinement, I have been reading the book Crisis Economics, written by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm in 2010. Roubini analyses in detail the most significant economic crises in our recent history since the 19th century and the economic policies implemented to contain them. Although each crisis is different, there are certain […]
Is there hope for hope?
I never thought that the context in which I would write about boards of directors in Spain would be so critical, unexpected, sad, and with such an uncertain future. Therefore, what I am going to give here is my opinion, since in all humility I admit that I feel incapable of anticipating what the future will be [...]
Pre- and post-COVID-19 human sociability
Human sociability is a fact of common experience. Since prehistoric times, sociality has been a characteristic of human life that implied union and coexistence in order to survive. There is much evidence of the fact that human beings live and coexist in society, but what is the origin of this sociability [...]
Dr. Rodríguez Piedrabuena analyses the effects of confinement on our bodies.
Cortisol has been used during COVID-19 pneumonia because it can slow down the immune system's efforts through a cascade of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Cortisol's main function is to block inflammation caused by any type of damage. Inflammation is inhibited by cortisol in the early stages, [...]
The companies were this
Many things will change when all this is over and COVID-19 is just another chapter in Spain's economic history. It will have changed the lives of many people, certain forms of work organisation, hopefully even the production model, in a shift towards a more industrialised and competitive country. I am convinced that [...]
Communication in times of coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis is changing the way we relate to each other, including between corporate communications professionals and journalists. Press conferences in which journalists coincided with members of the communications offices of a company or a public body allowed for a greater exchange of information [...]
Post-pandemic thinking
Always on the fence about world order, Henry Kissinger is quite clear: a completely different world will emerge from the current surreal atmosphere of Covid-19. As the former Secretary of State explained in the Wall Street Journal, the end of the pandemic will inevitably produce a reckoning for the failures of [...]
Laura González-Molero: "There will be a new normality in which digitalisation will be a very important pillar".
In this interview with Proa Comunicación, Laura González-Molero, president of the Association for Progress in Management (APD), analyzes the economic crisis that the containment measures established by the coronavirus are going to unleash in Spain. He admits that if in March the priority was «to face a pandemic in which we were overwhelmed from the [...]
There is only one future: build trust
The virus not only leaves thousands of dead - the most painful and serious - but a trail of physical and mental destruction, creating such uncertainty that there is no future. The most optimistic talk about a very different future coming, one that is very new, but perhaps more supportive and ecological. The apocalyptic ones [...]