Leadership
What are the qualities and skills required to lead individuals or organizations towards their goals? More generally, how to train and engage teams?
Protect yourself against strategic blindness
Companies that believe they are invulnerable are particularly exposed to a rude awakening. How can you guard against the tendency to ignore unpleasant truths?
The dangers of success
Success itself is often the root cause of failure, as people become lazy and arrogant, or overly optimistic about the future. How to recognize and avoid the traps of success?
Self-confidence: a professional quality to be developed
Self-confidence is a quality in the workplace, as it helps people build constructive relationships, dare to take risks, etc. So, how to develop and actively maintain your self-assurance?
Making work more meaningful
How to prevent employee motivation from dropping over time? By giving more meaning to their work.
Reconnecting with simplicity
Complexity is inherent to the way organizations operate. But while part of this complexity is inevitable, there also exists a superfluous part, which stifles initiative and prompts teams to disengage. How can we control its excesses to reconnect with simplicity?
Three tips to approach dilemmas with creativity
When faced with a dilemma, seek to reconcile rather than to pick a side.
Handling failures productively
Accepting the possibility of failure is essential in order to be able to experiment, innovate and adapt. But on a day-to-day basis, it is very often the need for operational performance that prevails. How can we identify and promote productive failures?
Drawing inspiration from explorers to face uncertainty
Corporate leaders are frequently confronted with turbulence whose consequences are difficult to predict. How can they draw inspiration from great explorers to account for uncertainty in their strategic steering?