The real issue today is between people, connecting them again through every means possible. Without trying to do kitchen psychology, we have to create more opportunities for employees to exchange, whether on a personal front (HR, mentor, coach) or on a professional front (brainstorm, quality circles, …

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If some companies have started to realize the importance of soft skills, few have truly incarnated the 21st century’s look for spiritual goals, life purposes, and alignment objectives; some may say that it is not the company’s role to train people in these …

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In prior notes, we have tried to show that the SMART way of managing is out and a more SENSIBLE one is in: Sustainable, Ethical, Network-supported, Small, Imaginative, Beautiful, Long-term, Excellence-driven. The important, yet, is to have ways of helping companies and people move towards …

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Everyone remembers the SMART acronym to talk about strategic objectives in corporate planning; no surprise it came about in the early 80’s as financial capitalism was entering its growth phase!  Objectives had to be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented and Time-bound… How about adapting this to the …

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The up and comers are different and may be teaching us that the world, if it is not enough, is certainly quite different.  No need to keep stuck in the gutter, you need to move forward and manage this new bunch differently.  These are some of …

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Adding to the traditional stakeholders (shareholders, employees, clients), company heads, now, have to take into account a fourth leg that is the social environment (sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, extending into social economy that links private and public objectives together).  Whereas, prior, one could focus on cash …

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If 2008 shall be considered a warning shot when we shall look back at it in the future, the current crisis is far from over and, if it is not on the immediate economic front that we see it, it is everywhere affecting sustainable development (economic, ecologic, social).  2011 …

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Social network, Corporate Social Responsibility, social welfare, social economy… there are so many meanings for the same word. The etymology itself is wide, yet comparable from one sense to the other; the Latin socius means: companion, ally, associate. Let’s take each of them and try to make sense of the …

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