I recently asked Chat GPT what it considered to be the best, between Cognitive Diversity and Polarisation. Its reply was: “Cognitive diversity refers to the variety of perspectives, knowledge, and abilities that different individuals bring to a group or organisation....

A recent article I wrote, “When the Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions”, attracted a lot of interest and good suggestions, which reinforced my conviction that we are heading the 180° wrong way by focusing on Diversity at all cost, if we are serious about...

… and the Highway Patrol becomes an active part of the problem… On my left sits Ji-Yong Kim. He has 88 subordinates at his disposal, to get the best done. Far from denying or tolerating differences between them, he encourages them! He is delighted when all of them...

Yesterday, I came across an interesting post by Serge Golay, mentioning an article published by a consultancy with an inspiring name, Corporate Rebels. The post refers to a Harvard Business Review article, dated March 2022, mentioning a study concluding that, if the...

Nine months ago, I wrote an article on the latest Leadership topic “à la mode”: The Great Resignation. If you want to be up to date nowadays, the new theme is “Quiet Quitting”. A Friend recently sent me an article of Gallup, relating to it. Whereas, in the Great...

I came across this amazing picture of Brazilian Journalist, Lola Ferreira, showing far-right Brazilian President Bolsonaro's supporters, "meeting" underprivileged people in Rio de Janeiro on September 7th. It struck me as symbolising the huge challenge ahead of us. I...

This is the last of a series of articles on the M.B.T.I. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) preferences. The first was a reminder of the four Temperaments (SJ, SP, NT,NF)and the second was drawing connections between Leadership styles and M.B.T.I. preferences. This last...

Building on last week’s article, summarising the M.B.T.I. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) preferences, I’d like to explore the link between it and leadership styles. In our practice, we like to refer to an old (1969) and still so amazingly actual model, Hersey and...

Let’s put the record straight before going any further: This article doesn’t aim at criticising any of the above mentioned leaders (leaving aside it would be a total lack of class to talk about one of them, no longer with us). I simply aim at further refining what...

When a failed comedian (softly slapped -my father was hitting harder!- by the husband of a woman he just disrespected in front of a lobotomized audience) occupies all the news website in the World, one has reasons to be  concerned, about our capacity to analyse what...

I have the privilege to work both for start-ups and established corporations. The first ones are, usually, very proud of their informal, relational, explorational, intelligence-driven cultures and by the fact that their people are real passionate “warriors” who do not...

Last week’s article on Dilemma Leadership elicited a lot of private mails, asking for support in how to identify and construct the two axis of a dilemma (between which the leader will constantly arbitrate and navigate). A Dutch client showed me a model, attributed to...

In the “Old Economy”, Problem-Solving methodologies were a must in several business schools. We were taught to: Define clearly the problem Identify its root cause Remove the cause Observe if we had satisfactorily resolved the problem. It worked well, perfectly...

I must confess that multitasking (or was it hiding my natural tendency for procrastination?) started early with me… I remember the difficulty I had to focus on doing my afternoon homework, prior to dashing out towards liberation, i.e. the football practice with my...