Henri Fayol did not know agile organizations, collaborative platforms, or artificial intelligence, yet his name and work continue to be cited in management courses. At a time when we talk more about "squads" than hierarchy, and when managers are overwhelmed by obligations and contradictions without always knowing what their purpose is, what will remain of the founding principles of modern management?
I imagined this fictional interview with Henri Fayol himself, who has returned to confront his ideas with the realities of contemporary work. Far from defending an outdated model, he...
Henri Fayol did not know agile organizations, collaborative platforms, or artificial intelligence, yet his name and work continue to be cited in management courses....
The nature of knowledge work is by definition to be intangible. Beyond this truism, it covers a less joyful reality: we work poorly both individually...
Whether we call them change programs or transformation programs (it's just a question of scale), programs aimed at adapting the business to its environment...
Companies are aware of the problem of meetings, especially since the COVID crisis which, by generalizing remote meetings, questioned their efficiency even more.
One of...