To Survive The Unexpected Step 4: Tomorrow’s Leaders. Our societies are and will be profoundly challenged by the COVID-19 health crisis. It will accelerate transformations that were already at work, as we can already see in the use of technology to operate remotely. In a world that is both confused and without clear perspectives, companies […]

To Survive The Unexpected Step 3: A life of Organizational Dilemmas Now that we have reviewed the major external challenges that will affect corporate life and leadership skills (see Steps 1 and 2), let us take a look at their impact inside companies. Obviously these upheavals will have a major impact on the structure of […]

To Survive The Unexpected Step2: The World as it Goes Let’s take a deeper look at the uncertainty that next generation leaders will be confronting and make some hypotheses about what that means for leading successfully in that new context. Five factors are the most relevant here: the power of digitalization; what the global grid […]

To Survive The Unexpected Over the past five years, ICM associates has been working on organizational resilience around a simple idea: survive the unexpected. We saw this unexpected in a few trends: the digital revolution, the transformation of industrial sectors, an increasingly strong globalization, the ecological issues, but we never imagined that the world would […]

In a minute or two of trawling around LinkedIn you will be amazed at the great men who all sing the praises of failure: from Churchill to Michael Jordan; from Kennedy to Henry Ford; from James Joyce to Abraham Lincoln. On the other hand, you won’t read much about Joe Dorn, a baker in Pocatello, […]

Irene Rodgers     &     Deepa Natarajan It’s 3:15 in the morning and you’re awake and anxious. “Yes, that project is totally unrealistic and it’s sabotaging my days” you say to yourself. You twist and turn. Eyes wide open you tell yourself the night is over for you and that if you fall […]

When I open the paper, here’s what I read: Volkswagen is surreptitiously warming the planet. HSBC is laundering money from dubious sources. Servier is making money off of a health risk. The Carlton offers room service that goes way beyond the mini-bar. A minister, self-styled tax-avoiding Savanarola, proves to be overly fond of Swiss and […]

The Europe of past centuries knew all about cementing alliances. Royalty and nobility married their children into one another’s families. Love had little to do with it compared to the political challenges and the future of peoples who were all too often at war. The goal was peace: durable, fruitful peace between heretofore enemies. Sometimes […]