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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...
“Why it takes a focused effort to create a value building environment”
What does the shocking vote of 30% of my fellow Swiss citizens (57.5% out of 53% of the people who actually bothered to cast their ballot), imposing a ban on the construction of Muslims minarets, have in common with some Board meetings? Not a lot, except that it is...
“The Universal Myth keeps our people engaged through difficult times”
One of the most powerful ways to engage people through difficult times is by helping them realize that their suffering, doubts and frustrations are legitimate while being authentic in pointing towards the light at the end of the tunnel. A friend of ours, David Pearl...
How to “Create conditions for people to do and be their best”?
Following the great interest (thank you for all your mails and please feel free to share your thoughts directly on the blog) of last week’s post, I thought it would be good to complete the scene on how to avoid the “Going Limbic” syndrome. Years ago, my partners and I...
“What causes resistance to change”
I recently met a solid leader, deeply engaged in a post acquisition integration project. As usual, the project management part of the process was well thought of and under control. However, he was concerned with a more subtle part of the integration: How to ensure...
“The Engaging Leader and the Hedge Fund shareholders”
It is probably difficult to imagine a more challenging place to be for a CEO than run a Telecom company while having a hedge fun as shareholders (I guess we all heard the semi-fictional joke that during Board meetings, hedge funds representatives avoid shaking hands...
Marcial Losada explains his research for our blog readers
Impressed by the quality of some replies of yours regarding the post “Power of Words” and quoting Marcial Losada’s groundbreaking research, I went to him directly and asked to comment and summarize his work for our mutual benefit. Marcial was kind enough to respond...
“What we can learn from Positive Psychology…”
I AM A (suffering) NOKIA FAN!!! Increasingly felt like “the last of the Mohicans” when our 11 years old, Thaïs, told me: “Pai, I bought an I-Phone, as one of their applets emits a powerful sound based repellent against mosquitoes…” Against that, I see in Friday's...
Engaging Leaders in Action!
Following last week’s blog, I received several mails challenging us to provide examples of “Engaging Leaders” in action, suggesting that there were areas such as banking, where it is impossible for such leaders to act. I could have replied that Fabio Barbosa, the...
“How to lead on the three agendas?”
Leaders we work with, intuitively understand the value of working with three agendas (Logos or intellectual, Ethos or behavioural, Pathos or emotional) in order to sustain achievement. However, they sometimes find it confusing at the time of applying it. Here is a...
The biggest disruption in history
The matrix in the power point below shows the evolution of leadership through recent time: Historical perspective 03.10.09 It shows how, changes in the socio-historico-economic environment, as well as in the tools we use to deal with that environment, have shaped...
The Power of Words
One year ago, “Scientific American Mind” published an article[1] claiming that “How we characterize an issue affects how we think about it!” The authors analyzed the Bush administration’s choice of words in response to 9/11 events. For the authors, the words and...
Cognitive Dissonance as a leading indicator
Financial data are lagging indicators. Corporate myopia consists of obsessing about them and failing to see the Tsunami or the (Blue!) Ocean of opportunity ahead. Companies therefore seek to identify and work on "leading" indicators. During a recent meeting in...
From "Guessing the Future" to "Preparing for it"
We borrowed this slogan from Nick van Heck (one of our partners from Executive Learning Partnership). With an environment changing at an increasing pace, with the complexity increasing by the day, Nick is right in advising to stop spending our resources on trying to...
The beginning of a journey of exchange and shared learning
The beginning of a new adventure, Didier gets blogging... Each of my pieces of work provides me with rich learning (see our April 2009 book "Engaging Leadership") and I was always a bit frustrated not to be able to share some of the post work reflections. This blog is...
“Engaging Leadership” has been written for leaders who are about to engage their organisations in change."