“The five things I wish I was told earlier in my career” – This is kind of session I held with our interns and “Early-in-Career” talents recently at my company. Very exciting exchange, as it also led me to reflect on some of the lessons I learned throughout my own …
We seem to be increasingly disillusioned by organizational life. The question I often asked myself is simply “Why” ? Why is work even source of so much suffering ? If not suffering, disengagement ? Why could the corporate world not be a place of fulfillment ? Of expression ? …
Only a leader, who, as a human being, will make the conscious effort to evolve from a fear-based to a trust-based perspective and leadership, will have a profound and lasting impact on his teams, and on the business. By first looking at a very interesting project recently led at and …
From Google’s project discussed in the first post of this series, it may sound like you “just” need to tell people to take turns during a conversation and to listen to one another more. You can “just” instruct employees to be sensitive to how their colleagues feel and to notice …
“So, what does it look like to be driven, not by fear, but by a higher purpose, a sense of wholeness, our soul? This is the question Frederic Laloux asks in his book “Reinventing Organizations” as he talks about fear-based leadership. And then describes how it would like not to …
I have been a manager in the IT industry for almost 20 years, and have worked in that capacity at different companies. Through external forums, trainings and workshops, I also had the chance to discuss and work with managers and leaders from other companies on those topics. More often than …
As I wrote in “Ecological Leadership” a while back now, business is largely dominated by ‘left-side brain‘ perspectives. Business management practices such as performance management, strategic planning, financially driven strategies and plans, productivity driven initiatives are just few examples. They have been proved to «work» in recent decades and produce …
This FREE ebook is “based on and inspired by “ Frederic Laloux’s book, “Reinventing Organizations”. With “Unleash your team’s natural potential”, my goal is to share what has inspired me and resonated with me as I read Frederic Laloux’s book. Based on my own experience as a manager, I have …
We are reaching the end of our series ! We have discussed several topics from Frederic Laloux’s book. Aspects and attributes that all the researched companies in the book have in common. But a question reminds as many of us might sense a calling for embracing « Evolutionary-Teal » principles, for “going …
Have you ever tried to ask people around you what they think about their company’s mission statement ? If you get an answer (not everyone does even actually remember it !), you will tend to get a rather cynical answer, or neutral at best. But very rarely will you …