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Our blog’s inspiration comes from the work we do, the knowledge shared between our clients and us. It is dedicated to effective leadership.
Expect high performance? Be sure to include an “Emotional Check-In” for your team
Picture composed by A.I. There are three “boxes” any business, military or sports leaders must tick, prior to engage their team into the “battlefield”: Logos, the (intellectual) Clarity test, as our brain’s first filter is about Rationality and Sense-making...
I will not let them define my Future!
She was hardly 5, when she recognised some neighbours breaking through the entry door with machetes, taking an active role in one of the World’s most horrific genocide. Those men then forced her to watch her parents being slaughtered while they raped the child she...
The Best Route to Overcome a Financial Crisis: Prioritize People!
Introduction During my career in finance, I have built and transformed finance functions for companies undergoing various changes, including acquisitions, turnarounds, reorganizations, supporting growth, or developing new business models. I have learnt through these...
When was the last time you asked: “What does staying human actually mean?” by Chris Parker
Last week, during a strategy session with a client's leadership team, I posed this question. The silence was uncomfortable. Then, finally, someone ventured: "Not being replaced by AI?" Fear. That's what I heard. Not curiosity. Not possibility. Fear. And I understand....
The Slow Life Resistance
This picture was designed with the help of ChatGPT At first sight, there isn’t much in common between a) Tunisia born Science-Po and Polytechnique Professor, Dr. Asma Mhalla, b) ex-model, European Union official and coach, Congo born Claude Tambwe, c)...
Will Your Future Leaders be ‘Great Captains of their Teams’?: Leadership lessons from the Ryder Cup
Every two years the Ryder Cup gives business leaders a live case in leadership under pressure, pitching the best golfers of Europe and the USA against each other over one weekend. Twelve elite professionals on each side, normally lone competitors, must suddenly adapt...
Thinking of hiring a Big Consulting Firm? Read this first.
Blog article by Marvin Faure, Partner at the Enablers Network THE CONTEXT Companies seek to develop profitable growth. They operate in an uncertain world and thus frequently face the need to make major changes, made necessary by geopolitical realignment, supply...
Critical Thinking & Collective Stupidity
With Gratitude to Pixabay I recently came across a clip, dedicated to Critical Thinking. It is far from perfect, I am irritated by the off-voice and the request to sign-up is cheap. Worse of all, the promise that, by the end of the clip we will know the Truth, seems...
What did Fabio Celestini learn from Business and what can he teach us, in return?
This past week-end (after another 5-2 victory), Fabio Celestini’s FC Basel won the title of champion 2025 in the Swiss Football Championship! When pressed by a journalist, about the reasons why Basel won, Fabio explained that tactics and skills weren’t the...
Eight ways to develop your leadership (by Charlotte Mader)
(Charlotte Mader is one of our top coaches, specialised in accompanying neuro-divergent teams and individual. She shares with you her thoughts on Leadership) What does it mean to be a good leader? This is a question I have asked myself many times as a Manager in a...
If football fans can do it, why don’t we?
Corinthians is one of the most famous Brazilian football teams (and by stating this, I instantaneously lost half of my Brazilian readership😉). It has a fan club of… 35 million people! To many, it is far more than a sports club, it refers to itself as “The Corinthian...
May we have Leaders who doubt!
I have grown a profound Respect and Love for all the Religions I came across throughout my Spiritual Journey, as long as they do not consider themselves as the sole owners of the Only Truth! I was educated as a Catholic, then taught by a Family Friend to understand...
“The Greatest Danger to our Future is Apathy!”
It started with the famous British Anthropologist and Ethologist (specialist in animal behaviours, chimpanzees in her case), Jane Goodall. Desperate in front of our collective passivity, she voiced that terrifying prediction: “The Greatest Danger to our Future is...
“Fear of losing vs fear of winning: two sides of the same coin?”
I am privileged to closely follow the destiny of one of Switzerland’s leading football teams. Of course, the Swiss championship should progress before it competes with the English Premier League or the Italian, German, Spanish or French competitions. But, it can be...
From Integrity, Miracles and Love…
Time flies… It is already five years ago that I introduced here an article written by a man I profoundly respect and consider as a thought leader, Hamilton Mann. Hamilton is the Group Vice President of Digital Marketing and Digital Transformation of Thales (a global...
Leading From Love with Rumi (and Chris Parker…)
Rumi is one of the most influential poet and thinker of a region extending from Turkey, Middle East to the Indian Continent (even to the USA, where he is considered the best selling poet!). Born, in what previously was Iran, on the 13th Century, he was celebrated as a...
Recovering is my choice
AI generated. Pixabay picture In Campbell’s Monomyth, Falling and Recovering are important indicators that one truly is on their Heroic Journey. Indeed, could you envisage a Hollywood blockbuster without its Hero struggling, falling, losing it all, then running into...
Is your Strategy just a Platitude?
Our blog is opening up to other authors than myself. Last week, Charlotte Mader and Deborah Berlinck shared their thoughts on mindfulness and its links with Business Executives (find their article here). This week, I have the privilege to welcome Kenneth Daniel Tan,...
The brain’s untapped potential
Pixabay sponsored picture In the Enablers Network, some of us are working hard at following track of the progresses in Neurosciences and apply them to Leadership, whilst others deepen the positive impact that meditation, mindfulness and other techniques have on...
How can I fly like an Eagle, when I am surrounded by turkeys?
Image from Pixabay Were these the words that the lonely guy had in mind for a while, when initiating his “dance”? It is something I confess to feel, sometimes, when people I try to engage, do not seem to understand what I am telling them, with passion and conviction....
On my way to Guaruja
Pixabay picture. With gratitude “This is going to be a very long journey!” I remember thinking, when the conversation started with the taxi-driver, taking me from São-Paulo international airport, to the luxury resort of Guaruja, where I was invited to speak in...
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