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From heroic to authentic leadership

From heroic to authentic leadership

The observation of sustainably successful leaders highlights a reality that is clearly different from the fantasized figure of the conquering hero. How can we become aware of this gap between the fantasy and the reality to develop our leadership qualities?
216a – Synopsis (8p.) Courage
Encourage calculated risk taking

Encourage calculated risk taking

Efforts to control risks can lead to stifling initiative. How can we encourage intelligent risk-taking?
193b – Synopsis (8p.) Courage
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
Manager-coaches faced with the fears of their teams

Manager-coaches faced with the fears of their teams

Fear is ubiquitous in companies. Often considered a weakness, it can also prove fundamentally useful. How can managers help their staff manage their fears and overcome them?
304b – Synopsis (8p.) Manager-coach
Dare to express your views

Dare to express your views

Paradoxically, in a business world branded as tough, managers often have a hard time expressing clearly what must be told. It is because this requires a self-confidence that is not always well established. How can you develop this quality?
267b – Synopsis (8p.) Assertivity
Transparency challenges

Transparency challenges

Anticipating the expectations of company stakeholders with regard to information can bring considerable benefits. How can businesses develop a true culture of transparency?
225b – Synopsis (8p.) Ethics
Accept conflict to manage it better

Accept conflict to manage it better

Conflict is part of the everyday landscape for most leaders and managers. However, we generally find it extremely difficult to react calmly to conflict. How can we understand and hence better manage our spontaneous reactions?
212b – Synopsis (8p.) Conflicts
Rehabilitate conflict

Rehabilitate conflict

Conflict can actually enhance performance when constructive discord reflects important company issues. How to ensure that disagreements add value and do not degenerate into destructive power struggles?
207a – Synopsis (8p.) Conflicts
Fighting our tendency for blindness in the face of crises to come

Fighting our tendency for blindness in the face of crises to come

Companies are often poorly prepared to face crises, even predictable ones. How can we counter the psychological biases that result in this blindness?
338b – A look at the news (2 p.) Crisis
Handling failures productively

Handling failures productively

Accepting the possibility of failure is essential in order to be able to experiment, innovate and adapt. But on a day-to-day basis, it is very often the need for operational performance that prevails. How can we identify and promote productive failures?
337a – Synopsis (8 p.) Experimentation

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