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Decision-making traps

Decision-making traps

Decision-making processes are strewn with traps. How can we identify and avoid the psychological biases that cause us to make mistakes?
196b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Adapting your persuasion strategy to your interlocutor’s decision-making style

Adapting your persuasion strategy to your interlocutor’s decision-making style

Strengthening our powers of persuasion by adapting to our interlocutor.
329b – A look at the news (2 p.) Persuasion
When can you trust your intuition?

When can you trust your intuition?

When can we trust our intuition, and when should we be wary of it?
309b – A Look at the News (2p.)  Decision Making
Deciding while under pressure

Deciding while under pressure

When we make decisions, we are inevitably subjected to biases—that are all the more powerful when we are under pressure and the stakes are at their highest. How can you nonetheless secure the vital strategic decisions?
291b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Contradictions, a source of innovation?

Contradictions, a source of innovation?

Great leaders are able to surmount apparent contradictions to devise original solutions that bridge the two initial options. How can you draw inspiration from their example to turn dilemmas into a source of creativity?
268b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Secure your strategic decisions

Secure your strategic decisions

Many decision-making errors derive from reflexes that lead to form a truncated view of reality. How can we avoid this risk? By engaging in debate that allows us to confront different viewpoints.
246b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Channel your intuition

Channel your intuition

Our intuition is an astonishing and valuable tool that is always in movement. Subjected to many biases, it may however easily lead us into error. How can we limit this risk to make the most of intuitive thinking?
215a – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
The intuitive leader

The intuitive leader

Our focus on logical reasoning has diminished our appreciation for the importance of emotions and intuition. Yet, intuition can be extremely powerful, provided you don't trust it blindly. How to make your intuition more reliable?
199b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Make better decisions to be more responsive

Make better decisions to be more responsive

For a company to become more agile, managers and leaders must make decisions faster and more frequently. How to avoid negatively affecting the quality of decisions?
182b – Synopsis (8p.) Decision Making
Making collective decisions more reliable

Making collective decisions more reliable

How can we ensure the full effectiveness of group decisions?
331b – A look at the news (2 p.) Decision Making
Identifying and thwarting manipulation

Identifying and thwarting manipulation

Understanding the mechanics of manipulation to better protect ourselves from it.
321b – A look at the news (2 p.) Personal Effectiveness
Preparing for an uncertain future

Preparing for an uncertain future

In times of turmoil and strong uncertainty, how can you manage beyond simply coping with the situation? One solution consists in accepting the inevitable nature of uncertainty: the challenge comes not in minimizing it, but in managing it.
291a – Synopsis (8p.) Uncertainty
The illusion of objectivity

The illusion of objectivity

Reflexive thinking is indispensable to react and make decisions efficiently, but may also distort our perception and ossify our way of thinking. How can we avoid being trapped in our cognitive illusions?
257a – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Matters of conscience at the heart of management

Matters of conscience at the heart of management

How to choose between different options when none of them clearly emerges as being the best?  These dilemmas make us face ourselves: What is most important for us? What do we favor? What image of ourselves do we give others?
256a – Synopsis (8p.) Ethics
Retain your lucidity despite the isolation of leadership

Retain your lucidity despite the isolation of leadership

Retaining a sense of lucidity about ourselves and the situations we manage is all the more difficult when we are in a leadership position. So how can we preserve our capacity for judgment?
239a – Synopsis (8p.) Open-mindedness
Protect yourself against strategic blindness

Protect yourself against strategic blindness

Companies that believe they are invulnerable are often in for a rude awakening. How can you avoid the tendency to ignore unpleasant truths?
192a – Synopsis (8p.) Strategy Development
The dangers of success

The dangers of success

Success itself is often the root cause of failure, as people become lazy and arrogant, or overly optimistic about the future. How to recognize and avoid the traps of success?
191a – Synopsis (8p.) Strategy Development
Developing your intuition for risk

Developing your intuition for risk

Completing risk-detection systems by cultivating collective intuition.
330b – A look at the news (2 p.) Uncertainty
Consultants: What’s the point?

Consultants: What’s the point?

How can you develop your ability to secure good advice?
308b – A Look at the News (2p.)  Strategy Development
Conflict: inevitable yet useful

Conflict: inevitable yet useful

Conflicts are inevitable in a company. They even have their usefulness by allowing us to uncover the diversity of outlooks and to manage dilemmas. How can we channel these conflicts towards a productive outcome?
285b – Synopsis (8p.) Conflicts
Participative management in the 2.0 era

Participative management in the 2.0 era

In times of free exchanges in discussion forums and instantaneous information flow through social networks and Twitter, traditional intra-company communication channels look archaic. How can one foster a real conversation between an organization and its employees?  
218b – Synopsis (8p.) Management Styles
Every-day ethics

Every-day ethics

How to resolve day-to-day ethical dilemmas? By developing great lucidity, clarifying your values and applying rigorous decision-making processes.
181a – Synopsis (8p.) Ethics
Grow from your mistakes

Grow from your mistakes

Companies inevitably make mistakes. By identifying and analyzing their mistakes, companies can turn them into learning opportunities and thus avoid repeating them.
151b – Synopsis (8p.) Learning
Courage, an essential leadership quality

Courage, an essential leadership quality

Growing uncertainty and often contradictory demands make courage an essential leadership quality. But what is courage? How can people learn to understand and manage their fears?
136b – Synopsis (8p.) Courage