When interviewed about the roots of the new “Open Source Economy”, I refer back to the 1970′s intuitions of then futurist Alvin Toffler, author of truly visionary books such as the “Future Shock” (note the 70′s influence of the cover;) or the “Third wave“. Toffler saw coming some of the profound mutations of our era and in particular the fact…
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“How Dilemmas Management will help your strategic thinking”
Saturday October 15th, 2011 0 commentsIn a recent discussion, a psychiatrist friend of mine elaborated around the notion of “choice” and I found it particularly relevant to our professional lives: “Many people at the executive levels display one form or another of perfectionism. They are therefore very hard on themselves and their people. Referring to the risk aversion theory (which I was checking with him),…
The emergence of Talents Networks
Saturday September 17th, 2011 1 commentIn the true spirit of P.F.E. (Proudly Found Elsewhere), so typical of the Open Source Economy, I borrowed the title (and a lot of the content) of this post to Neil Perkin, one of my colleagues in Gerd Leonhard’s “Futures Agency”. I’d like to thank him for the source of inspiration his article was for me and hopefully will be…
“The Leap of Faith”
Saturday September 10th, 2011 0 commentsI wonder how the officers in the US Army in Afghanistan felt when presented this bright slide, issued by bright consultants, seeking to present them with the complexity that they were faced with in the occupied country… One of the officers present to the slide show is reported to have said: “Once we understand a slide like this one, then…
“Challenging the orthodoxies of Executive Development”
Sunday June 12th, 2011 2 commentsOne of my personal projects is to find partners interested in radically new ways to consider and deliver Executive Education. These could be Business Schools as well as Corporate Academies. I had written a paper about my vision, (http://enablersnetwork.com/user/docs/MBA%20to%20MBL%20September%202009.pdf) which ended up being published in India. However, each time that I engage a dialogue with existing academies, I am disappointed…
“By 2014 Generation Y will have grown to represent 50% of the global workforce!”
Saturday May 7th, 2011 2 commentsType “2014 Generation Workplace” on Google and various reports and articles will appear about the fact that, in 2014, the Millennium Generation will represent around 50% of the workforce in the World. And soon after, the “Digital Natives” (also called “Z” or “C” for connected Generation) will enter the marketplace… My partners and I ended up choosing a young and…
"Yes but we are a B2B company and this B2C stuff doesn’t apply to us!"
Sunday April 17th, 2011 0 commentsHow many times have we heard this excuse when working with large businesses entrenched into their orthodoxies? This goes back for me, as far as 1988 when taking my MBA at IMD when some of my friends who had started their career in the industry dismissed marketing and strategic provocations from our tutors… Many B2B businesses have fully taken on…
"Improvisation takes a lot of preparation: What Samba Schools can teach us about leadership"
Sunday December 5th, 2010 1 commentJimmy is professor of Strategic Marketing in São-Paulo (USP and ESPM). He is a dedicated member of the “Vai-Vai” samba school and has decided to bring lessons from this world to the corporate world… “Is samba serious or just leisure?” The “gringos” (non Brazilians) as I am, respectfully consider samba as a pleasant diversion, a nice and pagan way to…
"G.D.P. vs J.D.V.", an original explanation of the Resonating focus
Sunday November 28th, 2010 3 commentsHeartfelt thank you, once again, to Doug Dean a Strategic Marketing Guru (whom I met when we both did our MBA in IMD, now based in Hong-Kong), for sharing another inspiring speech he watched on TED.com. It shows Chip Conley, owner of a Motel chain interestingly called “Joie De Vivre” (J.D.V.) Chip is an obvious enthusiastic and, in the strictly…
“From market driven to market driving: challenging conventional customer centricity”
Sunday November 21st, 2010 1 commentJean-Claude Larreche is the holder of the “Alfred H. Heineken Chair in Marketing” at Insead. His last book is called “The Momentum Effect”[1] and has met quite a wide success since its May 2008 launch. One particular tool has grabbed my interest and, with Jean-Claude’s consent, I have started to experiment with it quite widely: the Discovery path matrix (please…