Diamond Mine

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...

Human being in Merger & Acquisition (M&A)

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,...

Practice of meditation by “advanced managers”

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” …...

GDP and happiness

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...

Context of the “Advanced Management” articles

These articles of the category “Advanced Management” are initiated during my 4 week training in INSEAD ( Fontainebleau – France ), one of the best business school in the world. We are 73 managers from 26 countries, from a wide range of businesses, facing about 12...