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People Management

How to manage teams to help them give the best of themselves? Which style to choose? How to deal with difficult situations?

When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants

Walter Frick

Ensure a smooth coexistence between employees and artificial intelligence devices.

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To Help Your Employees Understand Diversity, Make It Personal

Kelley Mavros

A blog article that suggests to reinforce the dialogue around diversity to create an inclusive culture.

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The Best Data Storytellers Aren’t Always the Numbers People

Alexandra Samuel

An article that reminds us of one of the basic rules of storytelling: the starting point is always the audience! It also invites us to apply this same requirement when manipulating data: just because we are speaking in numbers doesn’t make it any more acceptable to forget to personalize our...

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Create a Culture Where Difficult Conversations Aren’t So Hard

Jim Whitehurst

What behaviors should we promote in an organization to facilitate frank feedback among staff, even on sensitive topics?

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L’entreprise libérée, entre communication et imposture

François Geuze

[The liberated company, between communication and deception] An article that illustrates the criticisms made of the liberated company model and questions its limits. 

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How to Tell Someone They’re Being Laid Off

Rebecca Knight

Some advice on how to best manage redundancies, i.e. this delicate moment, feared by many managers.

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Blue Ocean Leadership

W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

How can you re-empower people at every level of the hierarchy to reinforce employee engagement and performance?

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Balancing “We” and “Me”: The Best Collaborative Spaces Also Support Solitude

Christine Congdon, Donna Flynn, Melanie Redman

Fitting the workspace to encourage both teamwork and concentrated effort.

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Coaching the Toxic Leader

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Advice to help leaders to evolve—as far as possible—when some of their personality traits create issues.

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Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad

Dorie Clark, Andy Molinsky

Numerous cultures promote humbleness and the collective—which does not prevent people from needing to actively manage their professional reputation to succeed. How can you deal with this paradox?

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