Thinking that has been tested.
These insights are written by Lionel Frankfort and by the Companions — grounded in research, shaped by practice, and published where thinking is held to a standard: INSEAD Knowledge, McKinsey, and our own Executive Insights series.
They are working documents in the best sense: ideas we use with clients, refined by what reality teaches us.
Real Habits. Real Results.
Which leadership behaviours, if your managers truly lived them every day, would change your results most?
The 6 essential organizational traits to face disruption and be future-ready
A model and diagnostic tool to steer my organization towards greater resilience and velocity.
BOOK: Beyond D&I, Leading Diversity with Purpose and Inclusiveness
Available as of December 2021.
Offers strategic tools, assessments to identify gaps in diversity, inclusiveness and purpose in your organization…
INSEAD: From fear to Enlightenment, Building Resilience During Covid Year One
The four tools and strategies top leaders used most to convert stress and anxiety into positive energy.
MCKINSEY: Countering otherness: Fostering integration within teams
Exploring our feelings of otherness can help us discover how we are the same.
Meet your team in the kitchen
An approach to render remote working sustainable for your people and your business performance.
INSEAD: In the Current Crisis, Less Hierarchical Companies Show Special Resilience
How can more traditional organisations leverage the cultural and behavioural aspects of self-management imposed by the Covid-19 crisis?
BOOK: Humanizing Strategy
Are you serious about making your strategy a success? Do you have the patience to keep asking ‘why’? Do you…
BOOK: The Book of the Noble Purpose
Why do you do what you do? What does your organization stand for? What kind of…
The power of symbols to foster self-governance
Or how to leverage this artefact of corporate culture to stimulate workers’ initiative and responsibility…
LINKEDIN: Leadership is in the group and the need to get to know each other more personally in the work context!
I came across a very insightful conversation between Edgar Schein and Egon Zehnder and want to…
Is there a successful top-down approach to self-governance?
Beyond the paradox that leaders face with more participation and initiatives from the workers…
I want to become a participative leader!
Main drivers and barriers towards a participative leadership posture and some organizational implications…
Do emotions eat strategy for breakfast ?
Dealing with collective emotions and how they affect the strategy execution.
Case study on Kotter’s new principles to accelerate business transformation
The holiday season gave time to catch up with reading and reflect on the way we act. John Kotter, one of my inspirers in the field of change management and leadership, combined…
Success factors for business transformation initiatives
Please find some thoughts about 5 success factors for transformation initiatives. My recent projects…
Your transformation deserves more than a plan.
Let’s talk about what’s really moving in your organisation — and what isn’t.