To cope with present and future challenges, businesses and organizations are seeking to distribute power and organize themselves differently. On the one hand, the need is to skilfully combine the strengths of systems such as holacracy, ensure good leadership and draw inspiration from nature (in my case, with the octopus and its fascinating abilities); on…
How can we make artificial intelligence (AI) a partner for leaders and enterprise development? The fact is that in recent months there has been a constant acceleration in the deployment of AI in every field. Whether we like it or not, we are and will continue to be affected by these developments. Let us therefore…
To ensure their survival in a constantly changing world (BANI[1]), more and more businesses, organizations and companies are searching for structures and forms of organization that better distribute power and responsibility, to make them more autonomous and thus give them greater agility and responsiveness. They want to be able to cope with challenges more effectively.…
As we have seen in a number of earlier articles, businesses have the potential for being consistent and putting in place systems that allow for real autonomy and real change. For this to happen, individuals within an organization need to be able to learn (1st loop) and both share their learning with others (2nd loop)…
Resilience is essential in facing the many challenges and rapid changes presented by the modern world. It enables us to adapt, to learn from past experience and to make positive progress, even when up against difficulties and uncertainties. But how do we develop resilience? Are present trends in society favourable to its development or –…
Anyone will tell you: feedback is important. Vital even. And yet, in spite of the many different theories and methods, its potential is not sufficiently put to good use, or is perhaps even put to bad use. Often, we repeat what we’ve learned simply by rote, without having integrated the key principles. How often have…
To identify with a business, an organization or a group, it’s important to have a sense of belonging, shared values and a common purpose. The new types of organization hope to achieve this objective by putting in place structures that encourage, among other things, more “equitable” power-sharing, more agile decision-making and greater accountability. As we’ve…
What are the values of your business or organization? Do you realize that, on average, fewer than 30% of employees are able to name the values of their companies? Even senior managers, and sometimes board members, can struggle to do so. And if I were to be even more controversial, I might ask the following…
Are you aware of the vision that inspires your business or organization? Have you grasped it and made it part of what you do? Have you reflected on how you contribute to it? Very often, a business’s vision statement is a text that is more or less clear, more or less meaningful, more or less…
Our society is constantly changing and we are seeing a rapid acceleration in the development of technologies. The latest expression of this relates to progress in the field of artificial intelligence, of which ChatGPT is the best known and most visible example. All of these changes tend to focus attention on the next key stage,…