Cesaria Evora just passed away last month. So much poetry gone with this very special lady… So much depth, too, and life learnings. Just the perfect combination to inspire a short tribute to this great artist.  Why am I convinced she’s a source of learnings for everyone’s work life? Take a small island, lots of
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How comfortable do you feel about making mistakes? Why in heaven would I encourage people to make mistakes? Because it’s one of the most powerful ways to really and truly learn about risk management.  Obviously part of managing risks is about scenario planning. Yet how do you truly assess risk-taking? And learn to deal with
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This name might not ring a bell. Dan is one of these people who are incredibly famous… among specific groups of people. If neither leadership nor social networks or blogging are part of your interests, then you might wonder who that guy is. Here is why I think it’s worth changing that… Take a car
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Why speak, if you don’t think you’ll be heard? Sometimes you’re the only one to have a different opinion in the room. Caution or strategy would call you to keep quiet. But courage calls you to express your point. Why in heaven should make your point if you know that a decision has been made?
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Creativity is not reserved to a few Creativity is often perceived as something reserved to certain people – artists, researchers… who seem to be creative “by nature”, while most of us can at best admire their creations and wonder how it all happened. Creativity, however, can also be about very simple steps one inserts in
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Too many options? Sometimes moving ahead is not about spending time reading books or reports, visiting yet another new training or reflecting about an issue even more in-depth. Sometimes it’s not even about gathering new information or collecting informed advices. Sometimes moving ahead is about picking that one issue you’ve been wanting to tackle for
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Once in a while it happens – you turn around and see that colleague, client or random interlocutor, and you feel a pinch in your heart. Or some anger. Or just some annoyment, some irritation… Jealousy’s just hit again! Yet like most of our spontaneous, disturbing reactions, jealousy can be turned into something positive and
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Creativity is also about habits. In the coming days, pick something you’ve started to do always the same way at work and challenge yourself to approach this task differently – for example, change the moment at which you do it, the order you’ve laid out… make it more interesting, more fun or faster… instead of
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If you like jazz standards, you might have heard that song on your national jazz radio… Or maybe you remember it from the closing shots of Barry Levinson’s movie “Good morning, Vietnam!”, strongly overlaying war strikken landscapes with Louis Armonstrong’s warm, hopeful praise of this “wonderful world” we live in… But have you ever paid
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