To Survive The Unexpected Step 10: Leading from FAR AWAY One of the benefits of the crisis we are experiencing today has been the rapid development of telework. The availability of powerful and easy-to-use software has made it possible to communicate face-to-face or with several people in an agile, flexible and efficient way. This habit […]

To Survive The Unexpected Leading from BEHIND One of the major things senior managers are expected to do is “Develop people”. Except for those who are so unsure of themselves that they fear they will be outstripped, leaders generally welcome this responsibility. But few of them have received training in pedagogy, or the skills required […]

To Survive The Unexpected Step 7: Lead from BESIDE Environmental instability and health uncertainty, as we experience today, are stress factors that have had a disruptive effect on companies. How much confidence can we have in what has made us successful in the past when the disruptions and crisis we face challenge everything we thought […]

Survive The Unexpected Step 6: Leading from AHEAD This is the most commonly accepted leadership posture: leaders in front of their troops. The decision-maker who, in the midst of confusion, identifies the right option; the ones who risk fire and emerge victorious along with their (surviving) troops, exhausted but happy. But let’s look beyond this […]

Setp 5: Leading from ABOVE The most crucial challenge for leaders will be to build confidence in order to meet the challenges of coming out of the crisis and manage the profound changes we have described in previous posts. Some leaders can do this and generate the confidence needed to keep their teams motivated and […]

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 […]

There’s nothing more “in” than “corporate DNA”. Which only goes to show that people are ready to buy any old metaphor wholesale. It’s as though before having been “birthed”, corporate culture had already begun to develop in the genes of those who “conceived” it. But this is only partially true and it’s partially worrisome. It’s […]

It’s obvious to everyone that the digital revolution represents a total paradigm change. We’ve gone from the civilization of the written word to the age of code; from the word to the icon; from the pyramid to the network; from verticality to horizontality. This is so overwhelming that for the moment no one can fully […]