Every day, I feel the gap between what leaders say about the importance of ethics and how employees feel on the shopfloor. I undertake my own research, take a course in Consultancy and start to develop my own approach.
One of my dreams comes true: I start teaching at the University of Marne La Vallée, near Paris. The dream will last for ten years.
One of my clients asks me to come and work with them in London. I get a Post-Graduate Diploma in Conference Interpreting at the University of Westminster.
After getting my DESS (equivalent to a Master’s degree) in medical translation and editing from the University of Lyons, I set up my own business.
I am lucky to take part in an Erasmus programme involving:
- Two years at Aix-Marseilles University in the south of France (Year 1 and 4).
- Year 2 at Ealing College of Higher Education - just opposite the legendary Ealing studios.
- Year 3 at the University of Granada in Spain.
Beyond the wonderful memories I still cherish, this journey was a life-changing experience.
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Realistic Ethics for Our Complex World
Complexities are everywhere: be they our own, those of other people and those of the world. To address them, new concepts and disciplines are regularly emerging. All come with the promise of “putting the Human dimension at the heart of corporations”.
Yet, in the field, with an increasing number of people being burnt out, bored out or browned out, is the Human dimension really at the heart of corporations? No. And every unfair situation is a proof that no discipline can manage the complexities of an organisation alone.
There lies the challenge for every manager: How do you manage these complexities? Meeting this challenge becomes possible when you choose to follow the only way that is fair: the way of the Explorer.
How? By developing for each complexity, five maturities (i.e. five mindsets) in order to manage them while remaining fair to you, to other people and to the world.
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