I am profoundly grateful to those wonderful people who manage to summarize otherwise long and repetitive business books, in an article of 4 to 6 pages. A great company for this is obviously “Executive Book Summaries” (and now you know how consultants appear to find the time to read so many books…) Recently, I received from our partner Ben Clayton-Jolly…
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So here comes the Depression again… Watch your unconscious reactions!
Saturday September 24th, 2011 2 commentsIs the crisis really back or not? For some, it increasingly seems that Stock Exchanges’ agitation (leave aside ethics and rationale) is cut off from the reality of those who really work and create value. And for others, suffices to study some leading indicators to be entitled to be seriously concerned again… In the recent months, I met with executives…
"I had no choice…"
Sunday May 1st, 2011 1 commentLinda Perrat is one of the most amazing coaches I know. I meet her when unusual challenges take place, at personal or professional level in my life and always leave her Parisian office/apartment looking positively at options about the future. Ever since I met her, she strongly refused and corrected me when using: “I don’t have a choice” sentence: One…
Powerpoint, Neuroscience and Magic by Michael Newman
Sunday March 6th, 2011 0 commentsEarlier this week I had reason to remember a Management Meeting of a team I was coaching. I had asked this particular team to have a normal meeting so I could observe their dynamics, behaviours and processes. Inevitably there came a time when one of them wanted to use PowerPoint to support her part of the agenda; enabling me to…
“People don’t buy what you do! They buy why you do it!!!”
Sunday February 20th, 2011 10 commentsSimon Sinek[1] proposes a simple and elegant model: the golden circle. When talking (as everybody today) about Apple, he challenges its competitors: “Apple is just another computer company… They have the same access to the same talents, the same agencies, the same consultants, the same media, then why is it that they seem to have something different?”. For him most…
"Planning our 2011 Leadership Journey…"
Sunday December 12th, 2010 0 commentsSergio Chaia is the C.E.O. of Nextel in Brazil which he has profoundly transformed during his tenure. During a lunch in São-Paulo, four months ago, he was challenging me: “We all need to define our Essence! By so doing, we become unique and clearly positioned both in market terms but also in our own personal lives! By finding our Essence,…
“Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose”
Sunday October 3rd, 2010 2 comments“Scanning the periphery”[1] is the advice given by G. Day and P. Schoemaker in a typical HBR article (starting well by providing an inspiring insight then… crashing in flames when suggesting traditional old ways of thinking and 21 steps recipes). Scanning the periphery is what the partners and friends of our Enablers Network do most of the time and nothing…
“We think of our future as anticipated memories” or when our emotional memory takes over from our factual memory…
Sunday September 12th, 2010 3 commentsFinally back to our blog… Thank you for your patience and numerous requests (sometimes orders) to move on. So here we go again! An interesting event took place during my family’s trip to Brazil, hosted by the Portuguese airlines TAP. On the way to, our collective memory has been firmly anchored around the very poor conditions of the aircraft (run…
“From passive consumption to active co-creation”
Sunday July 11th, 2010 4 comments“This was the best experience of my professional career: the program you designed kept external interventions to the minimum and allowed us to share our own experiences, learn together and from each other. We now feel that our future does not depend from consultants but is entirely in our hands!” This was one of the most moving feedback we received…
“Going down, all the Saints are helpful”
Sunday June 13th, 2010 0 comments“Para descer, todo Santo ajuda” (to go down all the Saints are helpful) say the pragmatic people of the Brazilian state of Bahia (where my wonderful wife comes from). A recent event brought this old saying back to the surface: the Fundação Dom Cabral (www.fdc.org.br) for whom I design and deliver tailored programs a week/month in Brazil, has just announced…