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Men have built too many walls and not enough bridges (Isaac Newton)
We are about to turn the page of 2023… The war is still raging in Ukraine, unspeakable horrors took and continue to take place in Israel and Palestine, tensions keep rising between China and the US, in Burma, the fighting continues, the genocide in Eastern Congo...
MBTI Typology and Leadership styles (MBTI Typology and the Disruption Economy (part II)
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...
MBTI Typology and the Disruption Economy (part I)
M.B.T.I. (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is one of the World’s most used and researched psychometrics. Invented by Mrs Briggs and her daughter, Mrs Myers, it refers to the typology of one of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis “geniuses”, the Swiss Medical Doctor...
Why Bezos, Jobs, Musk or Zuckerberg aren’t Disruptive Leaders
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...
Of Collective intelligence, Birds, Business Organisations, Disruption Economy, Football & Special Forces
Imagine… Imagine if what you saw here below were to inspire your business… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY What do these birds have in common with Business organisations, football or even Special Forces? They seek to create an intelligent organisation in...
Strategy won’t be about guessing the Future, but getting ready for it!
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...
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...
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