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«I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may
March not complete this last one but I give myself to it.»
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2013 Why this review ?
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Management (R)evolution
P.2
P.2 Towards Augmented Manager
P.3 Economic
Paradigm Changes
P.3 Social
Topics for
the Augmented Manager P.4 Governance
P.4 Technology Futures
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Demographic Changes
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Resources Optimization
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Management (R)evolution
Pope Benedict XVI and the leadership issue Le travail invisible ou l’économie victime du
no one wants to talk about dogme positiviste
Harvard Business Review, Gretchen Gavett, Le blog de Philippe Silberzahn, 11 mars 2013
February 11, 2013 « La source de création de valeur réside dans le travail
et celui-ci a trois dimensions: la dimension subjective
(la réalisation de soi dans le travail), la dimension ob-
jective (ce qui est produit par le travail) et la dimension
collective (aucun travailleur n’existe et ne crée seul).
La tendance lourde a été de nier de plus en plus des
dimensions subjectives et collectives, pour ne plus se
concentrer que sur la dimension objective, que l’on es-
saie de mesurer de plus en plus objectivement. »
Diriger au féminin : les 3 conseils de
Françoise Gri
Les Echos, 6 février 2013
« IBM, Manpower et depuis un mois Pierre & Va-
“There’s something equally valuable, equally inspiratio-
cances... Depuis plus de 10 ans, Françoise Gri met
nal about taking that page of the textbook out — «lea-
son sens de l’humain et de la stratégie au service des
ders are born and they’re special» — and instead rea-
entreprises qu’elle dirige. Ses conseils pour exercer un
ding the page that says «leaders are made as much as
leadership au féminin, extraits de son livre, «Women
they’re born, maybe more so, and that they’re made in
Power», aux éditions du Rocher. »
unexpected ways. And that they recognize how human
they really are.”
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Toward Augmented Manager
Analytics and intuition: finding equilibrium On the intelligence requirements of
MIT Sloan Review, Renee Boucher Ferguson entrepreneurs (ENTINT)
March 5, 2013 Sources & Methods, Kristan J. Wheaton
February 18, 2013
“I certainly don’t need long-term predictions about the
health of the tabletop gaming industry. I need good-
enough answers about things I am working on right
now.
This, in turn, suggests the form of an intelligence activi-
ty designed to support entrepreneurs. It would have to
be staffed by a variety of high-quality generalists, able
to provide answers on a wide range of topics quickly.”
How I found happiness after being fired
Life Hacker, Amy Schouse, February 13, 2013
“When I think back to my mission of avoiding the Walk
“It’s encouraging that thoughtful data scientists like Ms.
of Shame, I can still feel how focused I was on saving
Perlich and Ms. Schutt recognize the limits and short-
myself from stuffing what was left of my self-worth into
comings of the Big Data technology that they are buil-
an odd-shaped box. When my boss told me that I had
ding. Listening to the data is important, they say, but so
been «eliminated,» I was so mentally prepared that I
is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at
practically floated back to my office, where I grabbed
its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered
my purse and the only two picture frames that were left
through a human brain rather than a math model?”
on my desk.”
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Economic Paradigm Changes
The real winners of the global economy: L’usine française innove à la chaîne
the material boys Libération, Maud Vincent 6 mars 2013
New Geography, Joel Kotkin, March 6, 2013 A l’heure de la sinistrose, il est peut être salutaire de
se tourner vers des perspectives plus optimistes. Voici
un article qui traite de notre industrie qui se réinvente,
de l’usine du futur. Celle qui se cherche en surfant sur
l’innovation : objets connectés, robotique, nouveaux
process de l’ère numérique… Fleurons mondiaux ou
petites pousses, pure player du renouveau industriel
ou usines traditionnelles opérant un virage stratégique,
des entreprises surfent sur le potentiel qu’offrent les
nouvelles technologies sur fond de révolution écolo-
gique.
The coming crash in the bond market
Freadom Pheonix, Bud Conrad, March 8, 2013
“Something strange happened on the road to our much- “There will come a time when the Fed announces a
celebrated post-industrial utopia. The real winners of new program of balance sheet expansion by asset pur-
the global economy have turned out to be not the crea- chases that will cause the interest rate to rise because
tive types or the data junkies, but the material boys: of fears of inflation from money creation, rather than fall
countries, states and companies that have perfected as the Fed desires. At that point, we’ll know the Fed’s
the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, power to manipulate the economy has dissipated. The
remarkably, manufacturing.” coming crash in the bond market.”
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Social Paradigm Changes
Stéphane Hessel : «D’abord, réguler les Robert Castel, le sociologue de l’insécurité
marchés, ensuite réinstaurer une véritable sociale, est mort
démocratie sociale» Slate, Jean-Laurent Cassely, 13 mars 2013
Viva, Anne-Marie Thomazeau, 27 février 2013 « Dès les années 1970 et la montée inexorable du
chômage, on assiste à la remise en cause de certains
acquis, à la montée de la précarité et de l’incertitude
sociales, qui marqueront les générations suivantes
nées dans l’après plein-emploi. Robert Castel utilisera
le terme de «désaffiliation», exclusion du monde du
travail et isolation sociale, pour désigner ces nouveaux
exclus du contrat social. »
Living with less. A lot less.
The New York Times, Graham Hill, March 9, 2013
« On l’a vu en France avec les manifestations pour les “I have come a long way from the life I had in the late
retraites ou lors de la forte mobilisation pour les pri- ’90s, when, flush with cash from an Internet start-up
maires socialistes. Mais chez nous en France, et plus sale, I had a giant house crammed with stuff — electro-
encore dans certains pays comme l’Allemagne où la nics and cars and appliances and gadgets.
démocratie fonctionne bien, l’ennemi est devenu plus Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot
diffus. Mais nous le connaissons. Il s’agit de la spé- of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me.
culation financière. L’engagement pour demain, c’est My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an
de celui-ci qu’il s’agit, le même qu’en 1944. D’abord, Internet windfall before turning 30), but my relationship
réguler les marchés, ensuite réinstaurer une véritable with material things isn’t.”
démocratie sociale. »
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Governance Paradigm Changes
Les Suisses votent contre les «rémunérations “Some of these institutions have become
abusives» des patrons too large”
Le Monde, Agathe Duparc, 4 mars 2013 The Peterson Institute for International Economics,
« C’est une petite révolution en Suisse, pays tradition- Simon Johnson, March 7, 2013
nellement acquis au libéralisme économique. Dimanche
3 mars, 67,9 % des électeurs, ainsi que tous les can-
tons, ont dit oui à l’initiative «contre les rémunérations
abusives».
Un texte qui renforce le pouvoir des actionnaires au
sein des entreprises cotées, afin d’empêcher les grands
patrons de ces sociétés de s’octroyer d’exorbitants sa-
laires ou parachutes dorés. »
The Byzantine empire’s own ‘eurozone’
crisis offers a lesson for the EU today
The Guardian, Peter Frankopan, March 10, 2013
“I am concerned that the size of some of these insti-
tutions becomes so large that it does become difficult
“Unlike the European Union, Byzantium was not riddled for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indica-
with inefficiency and disparity when it came to tax: pro- tions that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal
fits could not be parked in a more attractive region, the- charge, it will have a negative impact on the national
reby undermining the empire’s structure. Government economy, perhaps even the world economy.”
in Byzantium was lean, simple and efficient.” 4
Technology Futures
Disruptions: data without context tells a Your brain is being augmented, you just
misleading story don’t realize it
The New York Times, Nick Bilton, February 24, 2013 Big Think, Dominic Basulto, February 21, 2013
“Several researchers suggest that the problems may
be due to widespread media coverage of this year’s
severe U.S. flu season,” Declan Butler wrote in Nature.
Then add social media, which helped news of the flu
spread quicker than the virus itself.”
This electronic temporary tattoo will soon
be tracking your health
Wired, Nathan Hurst, February 28, 2013
“Instead, the future augmentation of our brains will be
much more gradual and nuanced. Once we started to
consider our mobile devices to be extensions of our
“But the tool could offer more than self-measurement. physical bodies - carrying them around with us where-
Because of the detail in the signal received, it could be ver we go and imbuing them with characteristics such
used as a human-machine interface — for example, a as personality - we set into motion a complex chain
videogame or drone controller — based on signals from reaction of events that made the future hybrid of man
the user’s muscles. It’s really marrying fully integrated and machine a certainty. 20 points on your IQ was just
electronics to the skin, a non-permanent bionic inter- the start.”
face.”
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Demographic Changes
Le président du Parlement de l’UE: «nous How African feminism changed the world
avons sauvé les banques mais nous risquons Think Africa Press, Aili Mari, Tripp, March 8, 2013
de perdre une génération»
La Tribune, MT, 11 mars 2013
« La Grèce, l’Espagne et l’Italie ont peut-être les géné-
rations les mieux éduquées de leur histoire, leurs pa-
rents ont investi beaucoup d’argent pour l’éducation de
leurs enfants, ils ont tout fait au mieux», a regretté Mar-
tin Schulz, lui-même autodidacte. «Maintenant qu’ils
sont prêts à travailler, la société leur dit : ‘Il n’y pas de
place pour vous’, «Nous sommes en train de créer une
génération perdue» ajoute-t-il. Le parlementaire craint
que celle-ci ne perde confiance dans les institutions
européennes. »
“In the predominantly Muslim country of Senegal, for
instance, the proportion of female parliamentary repre-
The 66%: America’s growing underclass
sentatives jumped from 23% to 43% in the 2012 elec-
The Atlantic, Richard Florida, October 29, 2013
tions, following the adoption of a new parity law. For
“Worse yet, the ranks of the 66 percent are a product of
over a decade, the movement Conseil Senegalais des
the very structure of post-industrial capitalism. If the top
Femmes (COSEF) had been campaigning for greater
third of America’s workers are navigating and prospe-
gender parity and their efforts finally bore fruit with the
ring in the knowledge economy, the other two-thirds are
establishment of a law that ensured candidate lists al-
disconnected and sinking. And if things continue to go
ternate between male and female candidates.”
in the direction that they have been, their children and
their grandchildren will be too.” 5
Resources Opimization
In China clean air sells at $0.80 per breath India’s rice revolution
Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden, March 3, 2013 The Guardian, John Vidal, February 16, 2013
“With now daily reports that the smog levels in Beijing
are frequently literally «off the charts», it was only a
matter of time before some aspiring Chinese entrepre-
neur decided to provide a much demanded product:
clean air. As expected, Xinhua reports that «philanthro-
pist» Chen Guangbiao is now actively selling canned air
to willing and eager Beijingites, tired of inhaling toxic,
carcinogenic smog particles. The cost: $0.80 for a can
of fresh air.”
The real reason the Economy is broken
(and will stay that way)
Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden, February, Februar 13, 2013
“This was not six or even 10 or 20 tonnes. Kumar, a shy
young farmer in Nalanda district of India’s poorest state
“In the meantime, the best I can tell you is that the mar- Bihar, had – using only farmyard manure and without
kets are reflecting liquidity, not reality, and that until any herbicides – grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of
and unless the world suddenly starts to produce a lot rice on one hectare of land. This was a world record and
more crude oil and the U.S. and Europe increase their with rice the staple food of more than half the world’s
consumption of it, I will remain quite skeptical of all pro- population of seven billion, big news.”
nouncements of recovery in the West.”
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- Le DVDM© made in SOMFY
http://curiosites.fr/a-la-une/somfy-jean-francois-deglise-favre/
- Lego fait passer à ses managers un examen sur les réseaux sociaux
http://ow.ly/iZjLv
- Critical thinking is best taught outside the classroom
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=critical-thinking-best-taught-outside-classroom
- Euro zone economy falls deeper than expected into recession
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-europe-economy-idUSBRE91D0CX20130214
- GOLDMAN: Behavioral biases are found in every aspect of the investment process
http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-behavioral-biases-2013-2
- The future of lying: What if computers can keep us from lying?
http://ow.ly/iZkrq
- The rise of mindful consumption
http://voices.mckinseyonsociety.com/the-rise-of-mindful-consumption/
- One in seven women are made redundant after maternity leave
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/09/women-on-maternity-leave-illegal-discrimation
- In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy.
http://ow.ly/iZl4v 6
- Factory in Greece starts production under workers’ control
http://www.libcom.org/news/factory-greece-starts-production-under-workers-control-11022013
- A sensational breakthrough: the first bionic hand that can feel
http://ow.ly/iZlnP
- The hippos and camels of connected products
http://www.ericsson.com/uxblog/2013/02/the-hippos-and-camels-of-connected-products/
- The perils of perfection
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-perfection.html
- Steve Mann: My “augmediated” life
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-augmediated-life
- A CIA analyst predicts the groovy Big Data world of the future in 1962
http://ow.ly/iZmsv
- Le carnage du travail
http://eco-vibes.over-blog.com/article-le-carnage-du-travail-115420435.html#fromTwitter
- ‘Internet of things’ promises nine billion tons of carbon savings
http://ow.ly/iZmNr
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