A bit more than a year ago, I was recommended by our partner, Ben Clayton-Jolly, to carefully follow a site with a weird name: Personality Junkie. He said it was dedicated to MBTI profiles and I must say that, I always learn a lot by reading Andrw Drenth’s blog...
Our friends of Oliver Wyman will correct me if I am wrong: It is one of their partners, Adrian Slywotzky, who wrote “Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition”, in which his strong argument is that, keeping competitors reactive is the best...
A few days ago, I saw a Brazilian head hunter writing on her LinkedIn page: “I don’t really mind to receive so many CV’s every day… I don’t mind the time it will take to reply them all, because, in the end, behind this mountain of paper and mails in my In-Box, there...
There was this serious and successful C.E.O. in Brazil who used to take the elevator two or three times in a row, in the early morning so that he could feel the atmosphere and culture of his company. And it wasn’t unusual that the conversation started with some, in...
“Trust is good but control is better!” is a quote attributed to Vladimir Ilitch Lenine who wasn’t particularly know as a trusting leader. So is there an opposition between trust and control? Two weeks ago, we saw how BCG partner, Yves Morieux accused misunderstood...
