Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad

Remember, it was a long long time ago, that, in the times we are living, means something like ten years. At this time Airbus was wondering how to compete with Boeing on the big carriersmarket and was working on what would become the A380. On its side, Boeing was not thinking about replacing its mythic [...]

One more interesting report at McKinsey’s : this one is titled : “Organizing for value“. You will learn that
- the traditional divisional structure is not relevant to create value
- companies will have to fav our long term value creation instead of focusing on achieving short terms objectives.
- in order to  do that they’ll have to [...]

Two people from the CIA gave a talk during last Enteprise 2.0 conference. They cited a 1944 manual which was about sabotage a business from the inside :
(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and [...]

Sometimes I find sentences which are really worth by themselves, that have a lot of meaning, whether in or out of their original context. I often bookmark them but this time I think they’re worth a post. As a matter of fact I find two series of nice quotations in two posts I recently read [...]