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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...
Stop creating addicts!
Here is a recent post from our Canadian friends of The Leadership Group. Trevor and Dale Stevenson have been working for years at bringing neurosciences in the world of leadership and business. Here is what they have to say: Take this quick test. What is the immediate...
Copywrong!
David Pearl is one of these "atypical" although highly competent and qualified personality that we like at the Enablers Network. All the work we have developed around the "Hero's Journey" concept is coming from him. He regularly writes a blog and I found a recent post...
Nature hates void: Communicate, communicate, communicate!!!
Christophe Ginisty is the President of the International Public Relations Association. He was recently interviewed by the Swiss Radio prior to a speech of French President, François Hollande on television. Christophe was elaborating on “the mistakes” that, in his...
The Pope and the Neuroscientists
At the age of 16, I wrote to Pope Paul VI, to ask him how, in his mind, a supposedly God Almighty, moved by Unconditional Love could coexist with a world where woman were raped, children sacrificed and men tortured. As I received no reply, I encouraged His Holiness to...
Strength and vulnerability
Dear friends and readers, the blog is back after a technical interruption...??? That sounds cheap and fake. What about: Dear friends and readers, I am sorry for this interruption due to an unexpected surge of work??? Everybody knows that the looming crisis is also...
Generosity is a game changer
What do Noella Coursaris Masters, Sergio Chaia and Jérôme de Meyer have in common? Not very much at first sight... - Mrs Coursaris-Masters, was born in Congo and lost her father at the age of five. Her mother being unable to support her, she was sent to Europe in the...
Purpose, Passion and Pleasure are the secret to sustainable engagement
For my recent TED-X Beau-Soleil speech, I chose to talk about sustained motivation. As I was addressing students, whose whole life of studies will be evaluated over a period of two weeks, I chose to interview some samba Masters and understand how they managed to...
If you don’t know what it means… You can’t play it!
Although it will never be a prerequisite to have an atypical background to be a partner of the Enablers Network (actually we would very much welcome some "Normal people" now;), we have to admit that we seem to attract people whose initial careers did not seem like...
The pessimism of knowledge doesn’t prevent the optimism of the will
It is with that sentence that Taïg Khris closed his moving TED-x Beau-Soleil speech this Thursday (http://www.tedxcollegebeausoleil.com/). I guess that what matters most to most of us, parents, is the education of those we love the most in this world, our children....
From Ancient Greece to the Metric System; a Warning from History.
In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a blacksmith who lived next to a busy pilgrimage route. In his house he had an iron bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night. If they were too short for the bed, he would work on them with his blacksmith's hammer,...
I hate to admit it but this man is far better than me…
I will share this "confidentially" with the 825 executives, consultants and academics reading this blog: I have started to write our second book with the help of the whole Enablers Community and more specifically with Dimitri Boisdet, my co-author on this. This new...
“Leadership” is a VERB!
This week, we offer you a different perspective from our Canadian partner of The Leadership Group. Pierre Gauthier is one of its lead partners and wrote upon leadership. When I was coaching senior executives overseas this Spring, I learned a great deal about myself,...
“The Power of Stories”
Some times ago, our São-Paulo office head and partner, Gabriela Jardim, asked me to check a video from a lady called Chimamanda Adichie. It was about the Power of Stories. It took me a while to finally watch the video in my huge pile of articles to read and,...
“The games people play in Boardrooms”
Individual coaching is very useful when practiced by a (rare) bunch of truly prepared people. However, the reticence I/we have when invited to coach a single individual, in isolation of their team, is how will we send a hopefully changed person to an unchanged...
“The Ecosystems strategies and their implications ”
Synchronicity: I met some weeks ago in Rio, a friend who is the program director for one of France’s Business School’s Executive MBAs. The highlight of their Brazilian tour had been to challenge participants in the field of strategy and move them from egocentric...
“Leading through connections: interesting insights from the IBM 2012 C.E.O.s Survey”
Every two years, IBM runs a worldwide survey of 1’700 C.E.O.s from the public and private sectors, on emerging trends and issues. For us, this report sounds like music to our ears, as it seems to recognize the emergence of the Open Source Economy. Three main themes...
“The Unemployee of the year”
Two related events caught my attention in this week. The first was an article by Brazil’s leading newspaper, Globo (http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/um-quinto-dos-jovens-nem-estuda-nem-trabalha-nem-busca-emprego-6109028), quoting a study made by Professor Adalberto...
“The best way to lose a battle is to be obsessed by your enemy”
I know this is coming a bit late but, at the time when all the major media around the world, who had heavily invested into the coverage of the London Olympics were praising the opening ceremony, a courageous and dissonant voice made its way on the internet, the one of...
“Would you stay with us if you’d won the Lottery?”
“Would you stay in this job if you’d win the Lottery?” This is the question I have started to ask our young and promising talents in the Enablers network… It came to me after reading a recent article in the Brazilian newspaper “Globo”: All employees from the...
“Team dynamics are so predictable”
My colleagues and I are always surprised by how predictable team dynamics can be when real work is done with real teams (and not “just training”). Bruce Tuckman, a US psychologist even modeled it, reinforcing his ability to predict how a team would behave. The model...
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