Muses are sources of inspiration The historical Muses were the daughters of the Greek Gods Zeus and Mnemosyne – they embodied and inspired humans in the realms of arts, history and science. Closer to us, muses have been known to be mysterious or flamboyant women, admired and cherished by artists as a source of inspiration…
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Analogies with war are common places in business According to Geoffrey James’ research on extraordinary bosses, whether leaders consider the world of business as a battlefield or as an ecosystem makes a fundamental difference.  Average bosses invest energy in creating troops, securing allies, expanding their territories and defeating enemies. To put it short – they
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  Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What are some professional projects for which you’d like to get more space, as in : more resources, more visibility, more power, etc? What exactly would you like to get more of? If you get more space for that
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What were your key successes over the last year? Who are the people who need to know about them? Who among these people are indeed aware of your successes? What do they know about them? What do they ignore? What
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What are the different generations you work with?   What do you find most interesting and enjoyable about it?   What do you find most difficult?   What do you do well when working across generations?   How could you
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One of the key differences across cultures lies in how people relate to power. In some cultures, power tends to be concentrated in the hands of some key individuals. “Power distribution is extremely visible in the way people use space.” They’re called hierarchical cultures. In others, power is more equally distributed among people and we
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Constant rejection is no good friend of trust! Would you trust someone at work if they consistently push back when you ask them something ? Whether it’s about some information, some quick help, scheduling a meeting… if « no » is a recurrent answer, most of us start to develop mistrust, even though this person’s reaction might be
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Research has shown that the capacity to uncover new opportunities can come from two types of approaches – focused investigation and… relaxed, open-ended and random scanning of the environment! Therefore next time you attend a large gathering of people – be it a meeting, a conference… change the criteria you typically use to define with
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8, 10 or 12 months – the exact time when a baby truly starts discovering verticality and craves for walking varies quite a bit. Yet at a certain point, they all find the signal: raising their heads, waving their hands, grumbling… the call is clear and it means only one thing: if you’re an adult,
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“Although not a religious woman, she had a mystical faith in the old Yiddish proverb that for every pot there is a cover, that in every problem the good Lord presented her there was a matching problem which provided the solution to both. There had been plenty of men when she was younger who had
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