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good evening everyone I’m really happy
to be here among you tonight for you
talk about this new art of power a
sweet value of power I want
share three key features
tonight with you before that I’ll go
to say why I’m here it’s before
all thanks to guy who will cross in
a corridor in October 2000 in a
big five firm and who offered me
a very very daring project he
knew my values he also knew
my taste for driving projects
of the arduous change and then he has me
proposed a fantastic challenge bring
of soft power in a culture of
performance and up out
I was actually in charge
did not offer to partners
basically men driving
specific actions at destination
women
to stop stopping
leadership doors
so the question is much bigger
than what you imagine I have not my
bipper she is much wider than this
that you imagine that goes well beyond
of the balanced privacy the
professionals actually what I have
discovered during all my interviews
it was mostly
to bring a new model of power
of leadership
wow it was an announcement that
you can imagine then the idea that it has
been involved
I offered them a crazy idea I
offered to meet them one to
one all his partners and their
finally ask in 2005 2010 on
was in 2000 what are you
imagine that a leader will have to have like
skill
and what will it take for your leaders
our teams on projects for
can be good
so since I project them into the
business they really were really
creative and really offered me
many things and offered me a
such broad features
that it could suit both
men and women
so we come to a
proposal totally win win a
change from there could
possible, but beyond
what aulas that burke or other
purified researchers could have qualified
of feminine values or values
male
I discover is something of
much more important and also
anyway
the leader of tomorrow as he
imagined it was far from the super
hero who knows everything and who can
he was a leader listening to a leader
much more collective
a much more empowering leader
and that I really liked it a lot
so I spent three years
beautiful of my life with them to
promote this new type of leader
until a coach with whom we
works on the project offers me a
another fantastic project that of
accompany him to create a project for
to put in coherence the values
personal and professional
change actors who in
the company try to promote
something else to do at wholesale
what she did with me
the experience has gone short
but I had found what everyone
my choices with concord I had found
my reason for being
and that was to accompany the
leaders in the determining role that he
plays in the transformation
so
what did I do he crosses the
I did not create my company and I
am determined to open to him every
doors of his great organizations for
welcome and to gather on all
the needs of all these leaders of
change then as I was 30
necessarily the drh looked at me and told me
asked a little to prove what is that
I could bring but it was not
serious I had this baggage of three years
fantastic of a mine a revolution
cultural three years of coaching
also behind me and then especially I
had a little help from fate
another of my passions writing my
pen and a meeting a meeting
with my first boss of cac 40
I planted myself in front of him and I
just asked if they could
to testify in my book
after a few minutes of the changes he
told me yes but on one condition the
condition was that they were not
all alone which is of course others
no problem I had committed a
little bit 8 is at once I had my
promise to hold so I went there
I went there and I discovered a
fantastic world I went back in
another world than mine and then that
was more I wanted to discover
this world and I was lucky I was
trust
my first boss of the cac who told me
introduced his team made work
with her then with her top 50
and there I penetrated yet another
thing the mysteries of power
but the mysteries of power when we
look from afar it’s a bit scary
necessarily there is everything we do not like
not too much to see the diaries super load
travel games power games
of people the ego games but there are
also what is next
this wonderful experience we have
to be able to change the business of being able
mobilize people to be able to give
meaning to thousands of people and that
it’s really extraordinary
so I enriched this study from
leadership to come up with a new
paradigm that I’m going to talk to you about this
evening
the paradigm of the collective leader
collective leader it seems a little
antinomian collective strong leader to
collective tilly together is what
it was really paradoxical no
I could remember each
moment I had myself had
experiments where they showed that
could have leadership is at the
times play collective when I had
found for example before 40
managers and senior managers who
helped on the project I gave them
proposed a method to completely
different from what they had
the habit I had told them ok I’m going
not give you a solution I will not
make you proposal I’m just going
give you a problem ours in
common and I ‘m going to give you a frame
of reflection to just give some
terminals to your imagination and what
went out all that was really
extraordinary
I never imagined that in two
hours of time we make a plan
of action over two years and whether
so successful whistling that is so
of ideas and that I will start again
after with the partners of the cabinet
but especially this experience you
could say it’s mine but it’s
also the experience of all
leaders that I have accompanied since
and all the teams that I have
accompanied since to take a step of
side it not side of the trust
but not trust side it is
important
but do not take away the loneliness
feels this solitude of leaders
when to make decisions
courageous
so what I did was that I
created an environment where all these
makers all these collective leaders
could find himself the single he
was born and he allowed a lot of
leaders to come and share their
experience of giving their strength but
also to share since it was in
all intimacy
it is with confidence
in a secure setting their
difficulties
the questions that posed them the
transformations the steps he had
still to do
so all this I discover every day
I discover again I meet all
these people I continue to accompany and
there is drawing
really this paradigm of the new leader
so now you surely ask
what are the three clicks I you
announces its entry the first risk
to surprise you since she is going to
against all the images of epinal
the first key I want to
to talk to you tonight is humility
humility is very powerful
because as michel landel says
to be a good leader
to be a good leader it takes a
some humility
we all need each other and
nobody has answer to everything he me
very successful to continue in
always know each other
you have to be authentic do not
to lie and to remain oneself with one’s
strengths and weaknesses that it takes
also know how to show because
that actually for me a leader
it is also someone who has his
imperfections and it’s someone who
knows that being perfect is not
really interesting because it’s
all our imperfections are all
our vulnerabilities that make us what
that we are in all of humanity that
we have that is what makes us
open to others we are not afraid
on the other because if we accept ourselves
even we can accept each other as we
is it’s this humility too that we
to make known the power of choice
that we all have indeed the high
the choice to be able to choose the way
which we look at the world and that
it’s an essential lesson
so it’s possible to say that we can
access to positions of
responsibility while staying
itself including large
organizations and it is also possible
to dream and even to make sure that
by reaching these positions at
responsibility we can finally act on
the system that was denounced before
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the second key I would like
to share with you on this new art of
power and collective leadership this is the
trust confidence is something
very deep thing
trust, as jean dominique says
senard president of the michelin group
trust is deep the real
confidence is giving autonomy to
teams and we are at the same time
it is to tell everyone that he is
responsible for his actions it goes in the
two senses I give you something but
back
you owe me something and you see
especially something to the team at
project at the company trust
it’s something very deep
it’s a bit like Marc Revolution
Copernican
copernic announced in 15 143 that the
earth revolves around the sun
it seems obvious today at
21st century
but when he did it he needed a
some courage because they had
confronted the whole church and all the
belief systems of the time
By the way, it’s been 36 years before
reveal his discoveries 36 years and
something today and it takes
pretty much even courage to the leaders
collective to say that the performance
revolves around trust and in the
reverse
because it’s a new thing
paradigm that it is all about
systems will be pretty much mounted on
the opposite
it’s the trust that’s at the heart and that
it is important
and trust it works
I will not have time to tell you
in detail the experience of this
team but I still tell you
a few words of their story
he was in a market at -15% per year
so what was going on each
said it was the fault of the other
there was
a total disunion more confidence
and yet it was enough for two days
two days of seminar so that everything
the world are talking to everyone
regains self-confidence and finds
trust in the team and we even
extended his other two days of
seminar
they have redone the entirety of their
vision and their program for
reach and customers they handed this
trust they had found at
center of the relationship with their customers
two-year result 26% of sales in
more to constant team
trust it works so now
I would like to share the third
key to this collective leader and this
key is the essence we sometimes have a
little bit of trouble to evoke meaning
because he is so written everywhere
in logos in slogans about
walls the walls displayed everywhere and
in the end, we often have the impression
that he is not really there in
facts and yet that sense is some
essential thing
because we are in a world of
change without escaping any
of you as said henri lachmann
former managing director of schneider
electric and my from the committee of wise men
khalid patches the change is
permanent there is nothing his change and
we only have the choice between the change
that we initiate where the changes that
we suffer and the difference between
changes that are initiated and
changes they have suffered is the
meaning that we give to things the meaning
that we give to action then we
finally goes from this little fear to
his little care what is going to happen
pass with this change for me to
the general interest
I am able to contribute I am
able to move forward because that’s how
that I participated in changing
the company changed the world for the
better and that’s a real
paradigm shift
because then you change logic
where I earn from the father necessarily due or
to a logic of and win win
and if we win more together then we
can really challenge and the status quo
like steve jobs this me too I believe
we can think differently and I
I think that’s what they are
really crazy enough for haut-rhin to believe
that it is possible that we can
change the world who are the ones who the
make
so tonight if I shared his three
ideas with you it’s really for that
you remember that we can change the
world by being a leader that makes sense
because the business in my eyes is
really the most beautiful ngo in the world
that’s the one that’s the solution to
many challenges that arise
today still needs to be
recognize and act that we know
mobilize the actors and it’s around
this sense that we can mobilize the actors
and around this notion of creation
of shared value dear to wear and
that I also like a lot the
trust of course I told you about it
self-confidence first because we
has an account
there is awareness that we share some
beautiful thing we are part of whatever
big thing and trust in
the team because all together we
can go really further and one is
really stronger and finally this
third key in the heart of everything eh if
I had made one of the
ten rules that I defined in my
next book on the collective leader
I would have chosen this one humility
because that’s really who you
lets understand that the more you go
from inside then you discover the
real person you are at the true
talent your heart and then you’ll
impact on the outside then you
will be able to walk your word of
walk the talk
so I also encourage you to be
in c1 of these thousands of people from
their collective and to you too
build tomorrow in the image of your
values and your dreams
thank you
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