Category: Social change
What changes in society mean for work and for relationships between people, inside companies and beyond: remote work, crises, social cohesion, polarisation. Read our perspectives on hybrid work
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Sparking a collective dynamic is a profession!
A few weeks ago, I took part in an “expedition” organised by the Institut de la Sociodynamique. The day reminded me of three useful – and indispensable – keys to…
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AI is a redistribution of power. But who benefits?
AI is the topic of the moment, in companies and in our daily lives. But one question is rarely addressed seriously by those who buy and deploy these tools: the…
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International relations: golden goose or fool’s gold?
Crises follow one another, experts proliferate, academic programmes multiply. International relations and security and defence have become a “market”. But a market for whom? And what do companies really need?
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Facilitation: a strategic asset for the transformations of our world
In November, the International Association of Facilitators held its annual Europe and Middle East gathering in Bucharest. Notes, pictures and travel impressions – and a conviction: facilitation is, decidedly, a…
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Against polarisation and radicalisation, let’s accept “yes, but” (and “no, but” too…)
A “like” on LinkedIn earned me the accusation of endorsing Kremlin talking points. In fact, I had simply refused to give in to polarisation – a habit in my life…
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NATO, an organisation like any other?
Invited to the Public Forum held alongside the NATO Summit in The Hague, I looked at this key event with the eye of a practitioner of collective dynamics. Is the…
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The sociodynamics of European conservatives – and others
Sociodynamics is a science, a practice and a philosophy of relationships. Commonly used in companies, it can also guide collective action in many other contexts. This time, applied to the…
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Towards digital social responsibility?
Do you think the inventors of the wheeled suitcase imagined the consequences of their creation? The same question arises for those who create – but also buy and deploy –…
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Facilitating off the beaten track: putting diversity and inclusion to the test
The European conference of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) has just ended in Berlin, after four years of absence caused by the Covid crisis. A few lessons drawn from…
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For better services to territories: working better together…
This summer, I went on a cycling tour for a few days. Occupational hazard: I quickly started looking at the “customer experience” – and at the synergies needed to make…
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No, the virtual is not the real (and so much the better)
A little less than a year ago, Inflexions, the French Army’s journal of reflection, titled its issue no. 50 “Between virtual and real”…
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Ukraine, a magnificent sociodynamic actor
Sociodynamics is both an interpretive framework and an art of setting actors and organisations in motion. Closer to the philosophy of the game of go than to that of chess…