March 12, 2023

Managerial Odyssey 2023: Germany – Company #4: Drees & Sommer

In this article, we will introduce you to Drees & Sommer, a German construction company that is helping to create the working environment of tomorrow. Its inspiring philosophy brings together profitability and ecology.

March 11, 2023

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey 2023: Step 1: Switzerland and its management culture

In this article, we will give you our impressions and analysis regarding the link between culture and management in Switzerland!

March 11, 2023

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey 2023: Switzerland – Company #3: Alternative Swiss Bank

We visited the Alternative Swiss Bank (BAS) in Lausanne, which is different from the so-called "conventional" banks. It is indeed the only active bank with a social and environmental vocation in Switzerland. Nicole Bardet, member of the general management, kindly accepted to receive us

February 28, 2023

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey 2023: Switzerland – Company #2: Mantu

We visited the headquarters of Mantu in Geneva which is an international consulting firm founded in 2007 under the name of Amaris. The founder and CEO of the group Olivier Brourhant kindly accepted to receive us, accompanied by the Chief of Staff, Emmanuelle Baillet.

February 20, 2023

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey 2023: Switzerland – Creaholic : the “innovation factory”

In this article, we will present the first Swiss company we met, in 3 steps: its managerial specificities, its way of dealing with crisis and its approach to organizational change!

January 4, 2023

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey: Stage 7/8: South Korea – Vietnam

From June 11 to July 24, 2022, we discovered South Korea and Vietnam for the seventh and eighth stages of the Managerial Odyssey The opportunity for us to meet 26 companies and 30 employees! This was a very intense moment, marked by the recruitment of the next duo of the...

November 3, 2022

M Gorlier

Leaders: let psychological safety be your great goal in 2023!

This is my first piece of advice for the year to come. I am convinced that this is both the most important and the best return on investment for a French manager. Not seeing this objective in the strategies of the big (and not so big) groups, I am both...

October 24, 2022

M Gorlier

Managerial Odyssey: Stage 5/6 in North America

After spending more than three weeks in Brazil, the third stage of our Odyssey ended on the 6th of April 2022. And what an adventure! Our encounters with 22 employees, 14 companies and many "Cariocas" in Rio de Janeiro and "Paulistanos" in São Paulo, helped us to understand the Brazilian...

October 5, 2022

M Gorlier

Shared Governance used for processes in Next-Generation Enterprises

No, hierarchies have not disappeared, nor have the leaders who used to be managers, nor the rules and even less the processes. I happen to participate in the strategic deliberations of the association "France Processus", and if it is true that this wording does not necessarily make one dream anymore,...

September 21, 2022

M Gorlier

Decathlon signals the end of retail

What if Decathlon was the anti-Kodak? If there is a social body that does not hide behind its illusions, it certainly is the one of France’s favorite brand for years! If there is a social body that does not hide behind its illusions, it certainly is the one of France’s...

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