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Does AI spell the end of collective intelligence?

Bertrand DUPERRIN - Apr 25, 2025

Managers are responsible for everything that goes wrong

Bertrand DUPERRIN - Apr 24, 2025

The ARR no longer says much about the health of a startup

Bertrand DUPERRIN - Apr 23, 2025

Let’s stop being nAIve with AI in the workplace

Free speech: a transatlantic cultural divide beyondthe online world

Employee experience and environmental impact: killing two birds with one stone

Is digital sovereignty the only answer to the end of globalization?

“The most successful businesses are those that think jointly in terms of technological change, work content and internal social relations”.

Antoine Riboud

Management

Punchline is not a management strategy

For a good ten years now, many executives and managers, particularly in the tech world, have been suffering from a new virus: the "punchline" virus. Nothing to say, it has an effect. Pithy, striking, impressive phrases. But phrases that solve nothing. They give an...

Many people work remotely while being in the office

Mar 28, 2025

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

Mar 26, 2025

Manage change or change management?

Mar 18, 2025

Operational Excellence

Just because work is invisible, it doesn’t mean that it can’t be improved

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 and collectively and we push the mental limits of employees to their limits by imagining that...

Show me a completely smooth process and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes, real boats rock. (Frank Herbert)

Mar 14, 2025

How can you avoid becoming a bottleneck in the workplace?

Feb 27, 2025

The importance of soft skills in operational excellence

Feb 25, 2025

"The most important contribution of management in the 20th century was to increase manual worker productivity fifty-fold. The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge worker productivity-hopefully by the same percentage. "

Peter Drucker

Human Resources

Will AI change the way performance is measured and rewarded?

If AI is redefining the very notion of work and employment, we can't avoid the question of whether it will also lead us to rethink the measurement and remuneration of work and performance. Today's rigid remuneration structures, based on standardized...

HR digitization: strategy before technology

Mar 27, 2025

With AI, will polymaths become fashionable again?

Mar 25, 2025

AI and talent management: a dynamic approach that promotes internal mobility

Mar 20, 2025

Employee experience

HR and Operations: the only viable duo for driving employee experience

In many businesses, human resources are seen asisolated entities, focusing exclusively on talent management: recruitment, training and skills development. An approach which, while laudable, is disconnected from the realities on the ground. Managing talent without considering the operational context...

Exclusive: the (fake) Steve Jobs interview on employee experience

Jan 9, 2025

Can we turn the pyramid upside down without the customer?

Nov 14, 2024

The French and work: changing aspirations and worsening conditions

Oct 10, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

AI in the digital workplace: a brilliant assistant, but an unreliable colleague

I don't know if AI is the future of the digital workplace, and it's a question that we will surely be able to ask ourselves...

What leadership style and culture in the age of AI?

AI heading for an economic dead end?

AI and jobs: why I don’t believe in the “great replacement” of humans by machines

You don’t need to trust AI, you need to trust the people who train it.

Digital Workplace

10 ways to screw up your digital workplace

With its promise of modernity, fluid collaboration and increased productivity, the digital workplace is seen as the grail of internal digital transformation for organizations. In...

Generative AI in the workplace: revolution or illusion?

Sustainable digital: no more hypocrisy

Hyperconnectivity in the workplace: digital becomes a burden

A daring zero-based Digital Workplace

Collaboration

People will not collaborate effectively or use the tools properly as long as they have the means to do something stupid instead.

Okay, the phrase is a bit provocative, but it's an observation I see in most organizations: they want results without addressing the way they work. As...

Eliyahu Goldratt’s fictional interview on infobesity and bottlenecks in knowledge work

Are collaboration tools really about collaboration?

Workplace Collaboration: When Technology Saturates, Productivity Stagnates and Generations Disconnect

Digital Infobesity: When Collaboration Tools Degrade Productivity, QWL and Amplify Mental Workload

'Computing is not about computers anymore. It’s about living"

Nicholas Negroponte

Work Hacking

When you can’t solve a problem, you have to change the problem.

There are phrases, quotes, whose meaning is immediately obvious and resonates like the obvious. Others tickle your intellect without at first sight meaning anything particularly interesting...

How to survive the workplace urgency imperative?

I didn’t answer you? That’s perfectly normal!

Eradicate Meeting Delays: 6 Simple Rules for Optimized Productivity

9 rules to use your email wisely before it takes over you

Society

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. (Arthur C. Clarke).

1°) Who is the author? Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is a British science fiction writer whom you are surely familiar with through one of his most famous...

AI in the workplace: avoiding the Wall-E effect

Will the decline in inclusion and diversity policies in the USA reach Europe?

Digital uses

LinkedIn is broken, but fixing it wouldn’t be that complicated

LinkedIn and its users is a bit like Stockholm syndrome: we are held hostage by a platform whose limitations we can see, but for lack...

Digital technology and environment: intangible uses for a real impact

My new Linkedin hygiene

Digital Transformation

The limits of technology-driven transformation

Speaking of organizational transformation, there are topics that are a bit like perennial favorites in the sense that with every major technological innovation, we see...

Anticipating the French way: when anticipating means reinforcing the status quo

Digital Economy

Are digital services a good target for tariffs?

As expected, the United States has unleashed a tariff war against almost the entire world. While it is to be expected that American consumers...

Why do leaders and experts make big mistakes when it comes to anticipating the future?

Data

The quantified organization: Grail or Big Brother?

Thanks to the growing mass of data they capture, businesses are in a position to understand how their employees are doing and how they...

Is technology really evil?

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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