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Personal Development

What skills to develop to best hold your role as a manager or leader? What tools to rely on? What subjects to put into practice?

The evolving role of executive leadership

A prospective survey about leadership qualities needed to face the challenges of the coming years, based on interviews with great contemporary leaders and members of their team.

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To win with innovation - Kill R&D

Charles E. Lucier, Janet D. Torsilieri

Use outside support to improve the company’s chances of developing a revolutionary innovation.

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Developing leaders in a business

Martin Bower

The key qualities of a leader, by Martin Bower, partner at McKinsey from 1950 to 1967.

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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why

Deborah Tannen

How subtle differences in the way men and women have learnt to express themselves influence their credibility and the degree of listening others grant them. 

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Managing your boss

Base your relationship with your boss on mutual respect and understanding, for greater efficiency.

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Why Design Thinking Works

How to free creative energies through Design Thinking.

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Digital Ethics: Orientation, Values and Attitudes for a Digital World

An anthology of articles about the ethical challenges brought by digitalization.

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6 idées originales pour maintenir le lien en télétravail

Julie Krassovsky

[6 original ideas to maintain the bonds while teleworking]    Examples of innovative mechanisms adopted by six companies to rekindle the bonds in their teleworking teams.

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Making Jokes During a Presentation Helps Men But Hurts Women

Jonathan Evans, Jerel Slaughter, Aleksander Ellis, Jessi Rivin

An example of unconscious bias: this study shows how traits of humor are perceived differently depending on whether they are voiced by a woman or a man.

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Real Innovation Requires More Than an R&D Budget

Gina O’Connor

Radical innovation cannot be summed up by the means used or the effectiveness of the R&D department; numerous other factors come into play. 

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