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How to give a useful feedback?

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Have you ever received a feedback such as you simply don’t understand what to do with it? Never…? Me neither! See some samples: …You need to delegate more! …I’d like you to be more committed. …You’re not strategic enough. …I heard it was said that you… …and the list goes on. This evaluates, interprets, judges […]

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IT and productivity gap

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IT does help to bridge the gap. Of course! You remember the article that went like: “IT Doesn’t matter (Click)“. Published in May 2003 in the HBR. The point in that article was simple: If your IT does not provide an edge that your rivals miss, then you are not taking any competitive advantage over […]

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Self-Leadership Lab

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I like coaching with the help of the university of Geneva (HEC) and towards 1st year students of the MBA. Great stuff, tremendous people to meet. We do follow this method Self-Leadership Lab (Click).

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Leading – Trust – Management

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I was writing about Leadership here (Click). While I still agree about the word cloud (Scottish humor included!), a much simpler definition came through Simon Sinek: “A leader has followers {periode}”. And that is simply true, all the rest is management! Watch: Great leader can be really bad at management! And the way round of […]

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Edward Snowden & the NSA @ TED

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We are having a long debate with some colleagues about Edward Snowden: Hero or Zero? No in-between choice, a sort of binary attitude! Of course, it is not that simple, but sometimes it’s good to take a side… What do you think? We did not reach an agreement, and at the end of the day, […]

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Decentralize or Centralize? Why?

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Why Decentralize? Wished outcomes: – Flexibility in operations – Sensitivity to the client and the constraints – Empowered and accountable Professionals – Increase customer proximity – Approach internal services to users – Increase the time response – Countering the bureaucracy – Closer Service – Service more accessible – Better understanding of the constraints (link) – […]

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Notes Organisation Structures and Models Analysis (2)

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What are the four main attribute that must concern the manager when it comes to create his/her company model of organisation? Environment (The list of significant (external) factors is defined – Appreciate each horizon of certainty (1-5 years) and express the Central tendency? Put that tendency onto the scale: No exceptions, Few Exceptions, Periodical Exceptions, […]

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Notes on Organisational Structures and Models (1)

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Let’s start with a short quote: Everywhere, we celebrate the famous entrepreneurs, but organizations “modeler”, rarely. If the foresight or recklessness of the former is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of economic development, it is the second discrete engineering that allows companies to grow and last.(i) What do those discrete engineers of organisation have […]