Innovation is now the new business as usual
Most businesses are feeling the current impact of the Covid-19 crisis as a sales and cash-flow problem. It’s more than fair. Yet, there is an underlying impact that is probably...
Remote, Office Not Required
While you’re all stuck working from your bedroom or your kitchen, I’d thought it would be a good idea to share the one and only book you need to get seriously organized ; )
The Female Code book
I will be contributing a chapter about decoding emotions at work to the book « The Female Code » which will be out this summer. Stay tuned.
Emotionally healthy business cultures
Since my TEDx talk Emotions at Work 4-5 years ago, I have been writing a few articles about how emotions can have a very useful place in companies and add...
Interview – A Finance Transformation Expert at DSM
So I’ve decided to continue the series of transformation leaders’ interviews and I’m starting this year with Thierry Zedda, a French engineer, currently working as a Performance and Portfolio Manager...
Cultural Transformation – Communities Over Tools
During the past few years, whether discussing mentoring programmes or cultural transformation with large corporations, I am faced with a disproportionate belief in “tools”. I think I need to clarify...
M&A: Overcoming the Culture Shift Challenge
Using mentoring to overcome the culture shift challenges of mergers and acquisitions.
The most common misconception about innovation
As many professionals in my field, I get this question a lot: « What is the most common misconception about innovation? » The short answer is that most of the...
You Can’t Just Decide To Be Customer Driven
I am very much surprised to see many analysts thinking seriously that Facebook facing a colossal data-gate, could turn around and suddenly become customer-driven. This doesn't make a whole lot...
Corporate Culture and HR Strategic Role
Too often HR activities are viewed as gentle and somehow lame endeavors that one should tolerate. They are part of the package when you work for a big corporation. That’s very understandable: how often does the HR strategic role comes into play into your company?
You might need a Company Culture VP
Having an Innovation or Digital VP in is always a good sign that the company doesn’t care enough to invest deeply the subject. Someone eventually ends up in charge because the board passed the hot potatoe to her. But for corporate culture, that might actually be a good idea…
Three scenarios of corporate culture change
From birth to old age, the company culture is not embedded in the same way. Hence it is essential to take a differentiated approach to corporate culture change.
A full stack approach to corporate culture change
Avoiding the usual pitfalls of culture change means focusing on coherence and meaning.
An entrepreneurial approach to women’s careers
I was invited early October to speak about how to unlock women's careers at a round table debate at the Elle Active Forum. (more…)
HR is powerless!
I have been meaning to write this article for ages and not daring to say some obvious truths about organizations and how they think as a collective. Since the work...
Mechanics of emotions
... And why engineers can be great at dealing with emotions at work, once they get the manual. I presented this TED-like talk for the Airbus Group Leadership University's trainer...
Emotions at work
So, I did my first TEDx speech last week in Toulon. I thought that I'd share the video, the presentation and some key points which I may develop in later...
Promouvoir la carrière des femmes
Je viens de boucler un programme pilote de formations visant à promouvoir la carrière des femmes d'une entreprise leader mondial du transport maritime. Malgré un format court, la formation a...