Right before the Summer, I had the chance to listen to two marking speeches delivered by professionals I profoundly respect. One was the farewell speech of Philippe Bobin, an ex-Olympic decathlon athlete, business coach, who was in charge of the development of...
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...
