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Conflicts! Not in my company!
Even experienced executives try to avoid conflict. Because they are not comfortable with emotionally involving situations. This article of the Harvard Business Review focuses on the mechanisms that one tends to use, mostly unconsciously, to avoid a discussion...
Cross-cultural understanding precedes cross-cultural management
I was struck a few weeks ago by a paper in Harvard Business Review entitled “ How Meetings Differ, from Stockholm to New Delhi ”. The author underscores the hard contrast he encountered when shifting from a trip in Sweden to a series of meetings in New...
Why-management suits Y generation
Sure you’ve heard of the Y generation, and even of the Z generation. But maybe you are not so familiar with the Why-management. Beyond the pun, let’s take a little time, first to describe what Why-management is and where it comes from, then to discuss...
Let’s innovate, but innovate in earnest!
Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them My dear friend Marc Halévy loves telling us how lucky we are. We live in an era of changes that occurs only every 500 years at best, and thus we are in position to re-invent everything!...
Liberate your company: fairy tale or real life?
In a recent article on this blog, I dealt with the “liberated companies[1]”, focusing on one particular point: how to make use of history to assess the core values, the true culture of the company, a key leverage for the success of the liberation process....