par Didier | Nov 3, 2005 | Advanced Management
“The first secret of effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on, so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values.” This is an excerpt from the article “Managing oneself” written by Peter F. Drucker in...
par Didier | Oct 27, 2005 | Advanced Management
After the 4 weeks “Advanced Management Programme”, I feel that I found my Diamond Mine, my Library of Alexandria. Beyond the very interesting learning about economy, strategy, finance, marketing, management and leadership, I have learned about myself, how to improve...
par Didier | Oct 7, 2005 | Advanced Management
M&A is, I think, an useful way of making business. For example, because of the Renault-Nissan M&A, about 20.000 NISSAN employees lost their jobs and suppliers lost their major customers but overall this company which was in great danger before the M&A,...
par Didier | Oct 3, 2005 | Advanced Management
We have learned last Saturday how to practice meditation. I asked then on Sunday and Monday to a lot of participants whether they started to practice. The answer was always “no”. 3 of them told me “ I practiced in the past but I stopped because I was too busy” …...
par Didier | Oct 2, 2005 | Advanced Management
The following question was asked by one of the participants to the professor who was teaching us “Macroeconomic performance” : what is the link between the GDP of a country and the happiness of the citizens of this country ? In other words : do we need to increase the...