I'm a few days away from vacation and I started to think that this year is being a strange time, unlike other times of the year. Nothing can fail and I want to keep everything organized because rest is essential, but I have felt that this “holiday” theme has been a great challenge in the uncertain times in which we live today, a fact that I have never felt before.

In this last year I managed to count on three hybrid colleagues in the team. They are not cars, but very different from the classic programmers.

After 18 years of managing people in a web development company, today I am more certain than at the beginning that managing people is not about power! It is about being at their service with guts and pleasure. Understand what they need from me to be successful in their own role.

When you say “my website has a mobile version”, what do you mean? It means that it doesn’t have an error when you visit it? Or it means that it is truly optimized for a great mobile browsing experience?

If we put the question upside down, we have the answer: why not? why not have a blog to share the best we know how to do? ... and thus, be able to contribute to raise the knowledge of our customers, partners and everyone who read us?

How can we establish closer relationships with our customers and with our followers, using digital platforms and the tools we have at our disposal?

Being a speaker on virtual stages and webinars without being able to “feel” the audience is not easy! We are all learning and adapting. Speakers and the public are finding their role in this new digital model of online meetings, presentations and events.

During my life as a creative person I never tried to work away from my team, I found that creativity is something that is not easy with isolation. Creatives struggle with current events and almost make us "sofa dreamers".

A month has passed since Portugal has gone home and teams became remote at all costs. The web is growing exponentially, and remote leadership was imposed on  a great team that makes new daily commits on websites that demand innovation and communication by the minute.