Almost all of us know successful and famous leaders who fell from their pedestals and put their organisations in a critical situation. Many business scandals in Portugal and worldwide have resulted from precisely this phenomenon.
What can leaders do to escape these “derailments”? What mechanisms can organisations use to create antidotes to these occurrences? What are the dangers of celebrity? Why can prolonged success be the enemy of success?
Based on research and practical cases, LEAD.Lab, the leadership knowledge centre at Católica Porto Business School, is organising this session, which will seek to answer these questions and point out valuable recommendations for leaders and followers. The seminar will have, as a special guest, Luís Portela, President of the Bial Foundation.
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DATE AND TIME: March 20th, 6:30 pm
LOCATION: Católica Porto Business School, UCP-Porto campus,
Carvalho Guerra Auditorium
PROGRAM:
6:30 pm | Opening, João Pinto, Dean of Católica Porto Business School
6:40 pm | “Leaders – Rise and Fall”, Arménio Rego, Director of LEAD.Lab and Professor at Católica Porto Business School
7:15 pm | The perspective of a Manager, Luís Portela, President of Bial Foundation
7:45 pm | Debate
About LEAD.Lab - Leadership Lab: LEAD.Lab, led by Arménio Rego, is the leadership knowledge centre at Católica Porto Business School, and its fundamental objective is to generate knowledge in this area through a two-way process: the knowledge emerging from research carried out in organisations is disseminated/transferred to them. Find out more here.
About Luís Portela: graduated in Medicine from the University of Porto, he worked as a clinical and university professor only in the first years of his career, later choosing to dedicate himself to his family’s company - Bial -, of which he was CEO (1979 - 2011) and chairman (2011 - 2021). In 2021, he retired from professional life to dedicate himself to the Bial Foundation (created in 1994 to encourage research centred on the human being, both from a physical and a spiritual point of view), which he presides over, reading, writing and family. He was also president of the Health Cluster Portugal and the General Council of the University of Porto, vice-president of the Serralves Foundation and member of the Board of Cotec. He has published ten books, the most recent being “Ser Espiritual - Da Evidência à Ciência”, in its 30th edition, “From Science to Love”, in its 13th edition, and “The Science of Spirit”, published in the USA by Toplight/McFarland. Among other distinctions, he is Commander of the Order of Merit and Grand Cross of the Orders of Merit and Public Instruction; Doctor Honoris Causa from the Faculty of Medicine of Cádiz, the University of Porto and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra; and Neuroscience Award from Louisiana State University, in the USA.
Photo credits: website Fundação Bial
