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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 Far from defending an outdated model, he...

“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....

Managing is not planning, organizing, or coordinating—which are all just words for controlling. It’s “calculated chaos and controlled disorder”. Henry Mintzberg

You've surely heard these common phrases in the life of a team or executive committee: "We need to plan better", "Let's get things in...

France sick of its management

Management is a never-ending debate. We know that it is essential to the success of a team and, more broadly, of a business, but...

Making yourself indispensable at work is the worst thing you can do

There are many false good ideas in the office and one of them is that it is in our best interest to make ourselves...

How can you avoid becoming a bottleneck in the workplace?

In the world before bottlenecks were machines that could not keep up with the pace of other machines and completely blocked the production process. The result:...

People Centric Operations: adapting work and operations to knowledge workers 

It's hard to believe that in 2024, in most businesses, work and operations will still be organized as they were in the heyday of Taylorism,...

50 years ago, the Marseille speech. And since then? Not much.

For years, this quote from Antoine Riboud, the former head of Danone, has stood on the front of this blog. "The most successful businesses are...

Is empowerment key to employee experience ?

From my point of view, most of the employee's experience takes place during  work. I mean when the person is operational, performs tasks, does...

The Future of work by Jacob Morgan : digitizing Drucker

Digital transformation is not a customer-facing program only. As a matter of fact, organizations will have to reinvent themselves internally too for the same...
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