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 […]

“I want to have at least some control over what I do and where I do it!” “How in the world do I fit into the big picture?” “I don’t even have the freedom to do what I’m supposed to do!” Isn’t this what the people in our organizations are demanding from their companies today […]

Today we find ourselves limping from one crisis to another. And we cut, and cut, and cut. We cut costs (a necessity); we cut personnel (a tragedy); we cut hopes (a mistake) – and in the end, we cut the fun out of our lives (a disaster!). Who can take five years of this? Professional […]