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The difficult art of business predictions

The business world loves predictions. The future of work, the future of HR, the year's marketing trends, the emerging technologies to watch…we're all over the place with predictions of all kinds and we love them. The question I often ask myself when reading them is "what can I learn...

Who wants to kill remote working?

It has been about two years since we entered the pandemic with wave after wave of hope that this time will be the last, the last efforts and restrictions before a return to normalcy. There is no doubt that one of the big stars of this period has been remote...

A year in a lifetime…

Hopefully, we are finally seeing the beginning of the end of the tunnel in which the pandemic has plunged us, and businesses will try to return to a more normal situation, and in fact they are thinking about what a new normal will look like. If they have understood...

The world after does not exist

For more than a year, we have been talking about the " world after ". After what? Apparently after the pandemic. And since we are starting to see the end of it, even if laboriously, it's time to draw a line on this expression that really irritates me. The world...

It was better before, but sometimes it was worse too…

Last week while diving into my archives I realized that this blog was celebrating its 16th anniversary. 16 years of uninterrupted activity just interspersed with a year's break due to exhaustion, which allowed me to be active elsewhere and start other projects. At first it was out of curiosity after...

When a letter makes us forget what matters

ASAP, CRM, KPI….whether in our professional or personal lives, we love acronyms that we use all day long. The acronym, precise, conveys a context The acronym has an advantage: it is short, easier to write, easier to pronounce. Some will also tell you that it gives a tone to our words,...

Sh*t… it’s my birthday

Last week was my birthday. Like every year I had the pleasure to see a lot of people wishing me that, which by vanity or simply because I am a human being is naturally pleasing. Besides, when I say "like every year" it is not necessarily exact. Because even if...

All conspiracists

If I had been asked the question in early 2020 I would have said that the word of the year would be "COVID" or "Pangolin". Unfortunately this charming (?) pholidote mammal has since been largely overtaken by "conspiracists ". Honestly at first I didn't think it would make such a...

COVID and remote work: no longer advocating the indefensible

Until now I kept my bloodshed to myself, preferring for my blog the more constructed and argued things, even if they can be disturbing. I have always preferred to blame the system rather than individuals because as the famous "tell me how you measure me I'll tell you how...

VUCA yourself!

We can see the difference between conviction and posture in the behaviour a person adopts in the storm compared to what they profess in general. This is called exemplarity. From this point of view my daily watch is desolating to say the least. The model of organization and operation of...