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Courage

Courage, an essential leadership quality

Courage, an essential leadership quality

Growing uncertainty and often contradictory demands make courage an essential leadership quality. But what is courage? How can people learn to understand and manage their fears?

Take responsibility for change

Take responsibility for change

To make things change, we have a lot more leeway than we think. How can we take responsibility for creating the changes we want to see implemented?

Work on your authority

Work on your authority

If the focus is today on cooperation, autority still remains an essential ingredient of performance. How can you develop your power and leadership to maximize the value you bring to the organization?

From heroic to authentic leadership

From heroic to authentic leadership

Leaders are often idealized as fearless conquering heroes. Yet, careful observation paints a very different picture of sustainably successful leaders. How can we be mindful of the gap between fantasy and reality to develop our own leadership qualities?

Luck, a skill to be developed

Luck, a skill to be developed

Without being intrinsically lucky, some people spontaneously do things that make good things happen to them. So what behaviors are conducive to luck, and how to implement them to develop what is actually a real skill?

Take action despite uncertainty

Take action despite uncertainty

The duration and extent of the economic crisis makes it difficult for business to know where to turn and what to do. Indeed, how do you find the right balance between prudence and audacity to continue moving forward?

Encourage calculated risk taking

Encourage calculated risk taking

Efforts to manage risk may make employees hesitant to take initiative. How to foster calculated risk taking?

Dare to express your views

Dare to express your views

Paradoxically, in a business world branded as tough, managers often have a hard time expressing clearly what must be told. It is because this requires a self-confidence that is not always well established. How can you develop this quality?

The ability to improvise, a rare skill to develop

The ability to improvise, a rare skill to develop

Great jazz musicians have developed amazing improvisation skills. How can one draw inspiration from them to develop the teams' capacity to react to the unexpected and to adapt in real time to any circumstances?

How to take safety to the next level?

How to take safety to the next level?

As atypical as they may be, the high-reliability organizations —aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, rocket launch bases, etc.—are characterized by a remarkably low number of accidents. How to learn from their methods to raise the bar on safety?

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