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25 janvier 2022

You may have heard this story about a young fisherman who was enjoying himself on the bank of a beautiful river when a stressed-out businessman came along. Stopping in front of the fisherman, the businessman said, ”You aren’t going to catch many fish with that single rod. You’re young. If you wor...

19 octobre 2021

Performance reviews are clearly in need of an overhaul. A 2019 Gallup poll found that a mere 14 percent of employees are strongly inspired to improve by their performance reviews. At best met with a lack of enthusiasm, at worst with resentment, this annual exercise in the era of The Great Resigna...

19 octobre 2021

October 18, 2021 As Covid swept across the world, nations had very different responses to how their economies should continue to function. Some tethered workers to their employers with furlough programmes others hoped for the best.

09 août 2021

“Every child is an artist until he’s told he’s not an artist.” – John Lennon Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us have had time to explore new hobbies. The jokes about sourdough bread or handicrafts abound, and many of us can be thankful for the sanity that artistic activities...

03 août 2021

In a 2010 Deloitte survey, 80 percent of workers reported unhappiness in their jobs. In another survey, 52 percent said they would start over if they could. Yet the number of resignations remained very low until the pandemic hit. Why do so many people hesitate to leave unfulfilling careers? Resea...

08 juillet 2021

Two words – Amazon Law – encapsulate the beginning of a disruption which will have consequences not only on a single industry but also at a societal level. An unconscious threat to the identity of one of the world’s oldest professions starts to creep in from different angles. Though the tech gian...

17 mai 2021

May 12, 2021 As a leader, you may sense the heavy mantle of work to be done, employees to motivate, bosses to impress, organisational culture to manoeuvre. Most leadership theories place all these burdens squarely on your shoulders: How you handle them all is entirely up to you. Concepts such as ...

04 mai 2021

When we began to write this, we thought it might be a mirror reflection of an article we wrote about for-profit executives moving into purpose-driven roles. We had the somewhat naïve and possibly judgmental hypothesis that a transition the other way around involved some sort of selling out. Throu...

28 avril 2021

“What happened with me would not have happened without her.” – Warren Buffett, on his late wife Susie A promising field of management research explores the role romantic partners play in shaping work outcomes. At INSEAD, for example, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri’s book, Couples That Work, descr...

22 février 2021

Product management as we've known it up ‘til now – as a limited function or role – is effectively dead. However, viewed as a culture, product management is thriving. I predict 'product culture' will be central to the future of work in digital economies. Yet knowledge workers, executives and busin...