No French anymore. It takes me time to prepare a French translation and unfortunately I don’t have this time. You will find on each post a short video introduction, let’s call that a video excerpt. I believe this will definitely give life and an additional human side to this blog.

It is so rewarding to meet new people, discuss and learn from them. People help me to make my own way through life, my own spirit among billion of spirits. Entrepreneurship is an adventure, and one day I will take part of it. Strategy, management, entrepreneurs’ values, success stories… are my main interests.

To start 2009 by an inspiring quotation from Cecil Beaton: “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play it safers, the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary”. As Kevin Roberts (CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi), I believe it is important to be yourself. 2009 is yours and I wish you to have a year full of changes, surprises and happiness.

Seth Godin is the author of several famous business books in the world. Reading Seth Godin is a good way to complete your way of thinking even if it’s important to develop your own way and not be gullible. To be honest, he sometimes inspires me in my thoughts.

I would notice the way of using really interesting metaphors (and I really like that), one example:

« […] tend a tribe the way you would tend a garden. (And note the “tender” feel of the word.) You cannot make plants grow. You can do everything else: plant, water, weed, shade, prune, clean everything. But plants grow or they do not, and you cannot do it for them.

It is important to recognize that different plants have different growing requirements. It is important to treat everyone fairly. In doing that, you may not treat them exactly the same.

As for weeds, they are only plants growing where you do not want them. Usually, you can transplant them to a more appropriate garden. Some, unfortunately, are invasive and pernicious and must be yanked. If a weed is hurting the tribe, it must be removed; do not hesitate. And then, as the leader, let the tribe know what you did and why. This too will build trust and strengthen the tribe. » (Tribes Q&A).

As I really enjoy reading this overview, I share it with you