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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Is France ready for “shared leadership”?
Behind this management term – and therefore suspect in France – lies simply the ability to work with others. Apparently a real “cultural” difficulty, for our politicians as in many…
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Montebourg: the expression of repression?
With his diatribes against Peugeot’s shareholders, the Minister for Industrial Renewal displays a violence that raises questions: psychological repression, or political repression?
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Restoring trust
From Peyrefitte’s “society of trust” to Algan and Cahuc’s “society of mistrust”: for European prosperity, for our companies and for regional development, trust and collaboration are the keys to collective…
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Culture vs consumerism: a match lost by forfeit
On a public holiday in Paris, many shops were open. But the Louvre was closed…
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Europe: interests without passions
In a project for society, as in a company project, it is impossible to build a lasting dynamic on interests alone. Today, in the face of the European crisis, political…
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A perverse bonus
The “dividend bonus” imposed by the French government on companies is likely to generate a host of perverse effects, for small and large companies alike.
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What kind of solidarity with Japan?
The dramatic events in Japan raise a question that does not spontaneously come to mind: the quality of relations between Japanese and Westerners, and the kind of solidarity we prove…
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Shared responsibility
The planned European mechanism for restructuring sovereign debt introduces loss-sharing: government bonds will no longer be “guaranteed”. A revolution for investors – and above all for States.
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Vulnerabilities
Financially stifled, challenged on their “intellectual” output, threatened with shortages of the materials high technology needs: are France and Europe doomed to a brutal recession?
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Influence management
The disappointment of French environmentalists at the remit of “their” ministry shows how hard France finds it to accept non-hierarchical management.
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Royale Navy
France and Britain have finally decided to act together on their combat navies. A reminder that change always calls for a broad view, and the ability to run several projects…
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The world according to Beijing
The contracts signed during the Chinese President’s visit cannot make us forget Alstom’s recent setbacks: how can short-term stakes be met without irreversibly increasing medium-term risk?