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“The world has changed, but not my principles”. A fictional interview with Henri Fayol on the limits of traditional management in the digital age.

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 Far from defending an outdated model, he...

Agility : towards the “market enterprise”

In brief : Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business aim at a flexible and disintermediate allocation of intangible assets, according to needs, for a better...

The social enterprise : too fast to be good ?

Summary : does the speed made possible by social technologies favor "fast thinking" to the detriment of "Deep Thinking". In othet words, by going...

Is change management becoming obsolete ?

Summary : change management is one of the cornerstones of organizations that need to adapt permanently. But this concept that implies that movement is...

What challenges for HR in 2012 ?

Summary : At the dawn of a year that's expected to be rather difficult, businesses face conflictual choices. On the one hand there are...

Process, enterprise 2.0, lean and agility

Summary: enterprise 2.0 has often been shown as the opposite of formal organizations and processes that have been the rule until then. What raised...

Management 2.0, SOO and productivity

I started, here and there, writing about the need for changing flows direction within organization : switching from a "pushed" to a "pull" way...

Is there a 2.0 way to draw an org-chart ?

When talking about enterprise 2.0, something we offer hear is "sounds interesting but our company is not designed to work this way". Understand :...