Governance

Raison d’être des entreprises : de l’intention à l’action ?

A feedback on the way several companies have stated their corporate purpose.

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Reinventing Your Leadership Team

Paul Leinwand, Mahadeva Matt Mani, Blair Sheppard

A complete, step-by-step roadmap to assembling a leadership team.

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Purpose: Shifting from why to how

Advice on how to ensure that a company’s purpose effectively inspires its employees’ actions, despite the urgencies and priorities of daily life.

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Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives

Arne Gast, Nina Probst, Bruce Simpson

How can a leader bring their company’s purpose to the surface? The authors of this article suggest four areas for reflection. What do the employees think? What does the leader feel deep down? What matters for the future? What do the other actors of civil society think?

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Pourquoi le travail passera, dans le futur, par de nouvelles formes de gouvernance

Luc Bretones

[Why work will go through new forms of governance in the future] A presentation of two “liberated” company models: holacracy and sociocracy, with short testimonials by business executives that have adopted them.

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A Simple Way to Get Your Leadership Team Aligned on Strategy

Scott D. Anthony, Bernard C. Kümmerli

The causes of disagreements between members of leadership teams are not always expressed. Sharing them openly allows them to be dealt with more effectively and trust to be restored.

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Here's how the ‘self-management’ system that Zappos is using actually works

Richard Feloni

An article that concretely describes how Zappos was organized according to the principles of Holacracy.

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The Boardroom’s Quiet Revolution

Richard D. Parsons, Marc A. Feigen

The role of boards has evolved significantly over the past decade, as they have expanded their scope of action and developed their skills.

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A Board’s Unrealistic Hopes Can Derail a CEO Succession

Jeffrey Cohn

Boards of directors make a big mistake when they seek another Steve Jobs as future CEO.

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The Key to a Better Board: Team Dynamics

Solange Charas

The quality of interactions among members is determining to add value to the board of directors.

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