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We write about what we observe in the field. No news items or trend recycling: long analyses that cite their sources and can be checked.
Three subjects keep coming back, because they are the three that really block an organization.
Governance and steering. Why thirty years of project management software have not moved the failure rate, what these tools see and what they will never see, how a siloed executive committee produces partial decisions and hidden costs.
Decision-making, and what distorts it. The cognitive biases at work in a meeting room, the role of dissenting voices in securing a decision, and the brake that the business leader sometimes represents.
Ways of thinking. What gifted profiles bring to an organization and how to recognize them without playing fortune-teller, why cognitive divergence sheds more light on inequality in business than the usual categories do, and what change owes to neurodiversity.
These articles sell nothing. They set out a method, and leave you to judge.
The articles
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Why an executive sometimes finds out about problems from their clients
An executive who finds out about a problem from their client does not have a client problem: they have a…
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Your project management software is built backwards
... and that is why your projects fail There is now more project management software than ways to fail a…
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Governance, steering, management: the fatal gap that AI and your project management software do not fill
The well-equipped company that malfunctions magnificently There is something deeply fascinating in the ability of modern companies to invest millions…
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The main obstacle in a company: the boss!
There is a deliciously comfortable myth in the professional world: if a company is not moving forward, it is the…
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Project management: successes and failures
The art of failing a project (with panache): an x-ray of project management performance, 2020-2025 When you look for figures…
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Change in business
Drawing on nature to understand how companies evolve " The world has changed " In reality, the world is as…
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Securing decisions through divergence and disagreement
When conformism destroys: why consensual decisions without dissonant voices sabotage the company Introduction Picture a meeting room where everyone nods…
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Rethinking inequality at work: beyond categories, towards cognitive divergence
Right by category, wrong in the long run: why treating inequalities separately misses the heart of the problem Introduction In…
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Lack of cross-functional thinking in the executive committee: silos and strategic errors
Why can your executive committee meetings be so costly? (even if everyone is convinced they are right) Cross-functional thinking, or…
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How to recognize a gifted colleague at work
You think you are seeing odd behavior at the office: someone who goes too fast to be listened to, who…
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Cognitive biases in business
Cognitive biases in business shape decision-making, team management and organizational effectiveness. These mental distortions, often unconscious, lead to irrational choices,…
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orgatypik: strengthening the performance of SMEs and mid-sized companies
The launch of the orgatypik.com website marks the emergence of an original collective: gifted and multipotential profiles, brought together to…
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