Last week’s post on “Leadership as a process” has generated a lot of discussions via direct e.mails (it must be thanks to the football clip…) I thought useful to summarize and report conversations held with two CEO’s whose challenges were around: Is “leadership as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
