Écrits

Essais sur le passage du leadership.

Écrits sur le travail de devenir stratégique sans se perdre en chemin — ce que ce passage implique réellement, ce qui le rend difficile, et ce qui tend à aider. La plupart sont nés de notes prises lors de vraies conversations avec mes clients.
Les articles sont rédigés en anglais.

When the Step Up in Leadership Isn’t Smooth

A personal piece on what the transition into senior leadership actually feels like — the 360 feedback that doesn’t come with a bridge, the loneliness of the role, and what joined-up support would have made possible.

On the Fear of Failure, and What It Costs to Keep Outrunning It

For most of my working life I didn’t have much of a relationship with failure. Not because I’d mastered something. Because I was moving too fast for it to catch me. A personal piece on what the fear of failure does when it goes unexamined.

Finding Courage in Ourselves: A Journey of Inner Leadership

Courage is not a fixed trait. It grows through self-awareness and through working with the inner voices that erode it. How developing an inner steadiness allows leaders to act from clarity rather than from reaction or self-protection.

From Reactive to Choiceful: Mastering the Essential Art of Responding

Reacting is instinctual. Responding requires bringing the prefrontal cortex back online and keeping it there. What it takes to make that shift consistently — and why it matters most in the moments where the doing keeps pulling you back in.

Stepping Away to See Clearly: Nature, Creativity, and the Bottom of the U

The corporate reflex when facing a complex problem is to push harder. This article argues for the opposite. Drawing on Wallas’s stages of creativity and Scharmer’s Theory U, the case for deliberate incubation — stepping away from the desk and into a different kind of environment.

The Fearless Art of Slowing Down & Reflecting

Self-reflection has been valued across cultures for millennia. Neuroscience gives this a contemporary grounding. The case for reflection as a necessity rather than a luxury, and four practices that make it possible alongside a demanding role.

Why Personal Growth is Essential for Leaders

Self-awareness is the foundation of effective leadership, not an optional extra. Three direct benefits of ongoing personal growth for leaders, and what changes in decision-making, in how you lead others, and in your communication when you commit to it.

The Power of Developing Dual Awareness

Dual awareness is the capacity to be simultaneously conscious of your inner emotional state and the external situation — what separates reactive from genuinely adaptive behaviour. Five levels of development, illustrated with concrete workplace scenarios.

Écrits antérieurs

Écrits plus anciens sur le leadership, la communication, la culture et l’adaptabilité. Moins directement liés au passage stratégique du leadership, mais une lecture adjacente utile.

Mastering Self-Discipline for Personal and Professional Growth

Self-discipline is often understood as willpower — something you either have or don’t. A different frame: sustainable discipline is not about forcing yourself but about alignment between who you want to become and how you spend your time and energy.

The Imperative of Adaptation in Life and Work

Adaptability — the ability to change in order to align intention with reality — as an essential asset in both personal and professional life. Resilience amidst unpredictable change, and the role of adaptability in fostering innovation.

When Learning Isn’t Strategic: The Hidden Cost of Accidental Knowledge Management

Why learning so often stays accidental rather than becoming strategic — and what changes when it does. From knowledge concentrated in too few people to the conditions that allow capability to distribute deliberately across an organisation.

Mastering the Art of Effective Leadership

A practical look at the techniques and styles that effective leadership actually requires. Five core techniques, four leadership styles and when each is genuinely useful, and the underlying argument that leadership rests on trust.

5 Tips to Adapt Your Leadership Style

Leadership style as a continuous choice between polarities — authoritative or collaborative, directive or coaching, high pace or laissez-faire — rather than a fixed mode. Five concrete ways to adapt based on what the situation and people actually require.