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Your New Strategic Asset: Neurodiversity (by Charlotte Mader & Chris Parker)
What is the diversity of thinking within a company anyway? How can companies truly create the space for inclusion and acceptance of truly different ways of thinking? Dr Scott E. Page from the University of Michigan, and author of ‘The Diversity Bonus’, summarises his...

The lethal transformation of promising start-ups into successful organisations
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...

A tribute to my Ukrainian and Russian Friends
“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell; you see, I have friends in both places.” I always loved this quote of Mark Twain and it sadly resonates these days. My intention is not to jump on the Ukrainian slaughter bandwagon and draw abusive leadership...

A useful tool to address conflict, dilemmas and coaching
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...

Leading edge organizations identify & address their dilemmas
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...

Multitasking does not belong to the Disruption Economy
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...

Disruptive Leadership in 2022 and beyond
As per explained in my previous article, it is since 2008/2009 that my interest is focused on the “Disruption Economy” and its impact on Leadership, following a study made with 14 Brazilian C.E.O.s and Fundação Dom Cabral. Early 2020, of course, I was taken completely...

This is what a study about Disruptive Leadership forecasted in 2009
My “love affair” with the Disruption Economy dates back to 2009, when Brazil’s leading Business-School, Fundação Dom Cabral, asked me to partner with Dalton Sardenberg, one of their most solid faculty, and design a program for CEO’s aiming at understanding what was...

Thanking you all who made a difference in 2021
From a business perspective, 2021 was another (to say the least...) "challenging year" (not to call it "annus horibilis", since I am not yet the Queen of England). As most of our work happens outside Switzerland and consists to have top executives from all over the...
The Great Resignation and the Search for Purpose
In case you haven’t heard from it yet, I can’t let you finish the year without knowing of the latest buzzword “à la mode”: The Great Resignation (i.e. giving-up my job). So what is “The Great Resignation” phenomenon? In the USA and UK, an abnormally high number of...
This is for those still running yearly/mid-year/ assessments
Soon is coming this dreaded lose/lose moment of the year called assessment, evaluations, etc. Some Leaders wonder how they will maintain morale and decent relationships, whilst feeding back about their disappointment to their under-performers, others have already...
Maybe should you provoke a high employee turnover?
A few days ago, I was having an exchange of views with a Brazilian business leader I highly consider. The topic was about employees’ turnover. Like most of us, I assume, I considered it as negative if not very costly. In traditional businesses (still the vast majority...

How well does your leadership team keep your iceberg afloat?
Almost twelve years ago, a client and friend, Beat Blaesi (Leadership Development Director at Bank Julius Baer at the time) introduced me to Patrick Lencioni’s “Five Dysfunctions of a team” and I shared its model with you, in an article. I now regularly work (I should...
Is Harvard University Professor, Michael Sandel, just a Dreamer?
Many of you reported their interest in Michael Sandel’s TED talk, mentioned in my last article. And, if a part were enjoying the ideas put forward by Professor Sandel, they also regretted, in advance, that these could be too idealistic. For those of you who never...
A New Way of Thinking for the Disruption Economy
We have all seen where a wonderful idea such as Facebook (from creating a platform where people living far apart from each other could reconnect with each other, to becoming a major tool of misinformation at the service of dictatorships or haters) went through time or...
When a Composer meets a Professor of Strategic Innovation
I often quote the work of Babson Professor, Jay Rao, on this blog. I like his down to Earth, thought provoking and unorthodox approach to things. Like many of you know, Nick McRoberts is one of my closest Business Partner but he is also a conductor and composer in...
It takes more than words to become a “Disruptive Leader”
I am interested in football and ice hockey as I believe that they can learn a lot from Business Teams Dynamics whilst inspiring them, in return, from a metaphorical perspective. And results come faster in sports: the next quarter’s results are the next game for...
Thank you for your dedication. Now game over, everybody back to the office!
It might have been the joy and relief of believing that the pandemic was over… These last 3 weeks, I spoke with four organisations exploring the best way to make the transition “from home back to the office”. Of course, everybody seems aware that thanking people for...
Brain-fog and the Pandemic Brain
I usually write about Disruption Economy, Leadership and Transformation. Once, back in 2019, I made an exception, quoting a very interesting TED talk by one of the specialists of sleep, Matt Walker (see article). I did that because I consider my mission to be to...

Romans and Revolutions
Have you noticed how a radical diet (here speaks a specialist????) creates a (sometimes) healthy shock in our constitution (two years ago, I lost 15kg by stopping to eat during 15 days, my blood pressure was back to where it should be, my glycaemia level was under...
Themes for Disruptive Leaders
Think back to leadership in the prehistorical tribes, then in the various first great civilizations, Sumerians, Egyptians, Sabaeans, Harappans, Chinese, Indians, Olmecs, Caralians, followed by the Romans, the Middle Age, the Renaissance, the industrial revolution or...

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