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2 May 201827 February 2020entrepreneurship, transformation

Effectual leadership: How to (really) transform organizations by learning from entrepreneurs

In 1934, a visionary General De Gaulle explained how the massive use of tanks in time of war could give a decisive advantage. The tanks were known since the First World War, but they were only used as reinforcement of the infantry. De Gaulle proposed to revise this conception completely and place it at the center of the military effort. He was not listened to except by the German general Guderian who put this idea into practice successfully a few years later … against France.

The same is true for the transformation of organizations: the importance of integrating entrepreneurs has long been recognized and organizations have made efforts in this direction, but only in order to become more entrepreneurial. It is this conception that must be revisited: entrepreneurs should not just come to reinforce the existing management, but contribute to transform it by their principles of action. Let’s see how.

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8 February 201729 September 2018innovation

Getting things changed: We must talk to the boss!

We often think that it will be enough to talk to the boss to solve the big problems of the organization. This is unfortunately false, and this often reflects organizational naivety and, above all, a refusal to take responsibility on the part of managers who have much more power than they think.

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24 January 201713 January 2024Management, transformation

The Creosote, this High-Performing Manager Who Destroys Your Organization

One of the major factors in the decline of organizations is the type of managers they hire and promote. Among them is what I call the “creosote manager,” the one who kills the life around him in order to thrive. Creosote people populate just about every organization I encounter that has so much trouble innovating. Wouldn’t there be a causal relationship?

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