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January 2008
 "Lève toi et travaille" (Take Up Thy Bed and Work), Eyrolles by Jean-Michel Milon
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At a time when the pundits are applauding "The French Who Rise Early", BPI Consultant Jean-Michel Milon pokes fun at our national failings, portraying a daily routine where work is the be-all and end-all. We laugh with him at our crazy attitudes at work, our relations with shrinks, leaders and our lives...
His is an amusing, caustic but always tender view of the people he meets in the work place every day.
His album of drawings has just been published by Eyrolles and is on sale in bookshops : relevant, funny and a great.
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"Et leurs entreprises verront le jour" (And Their Businesses Will Arise), Autrement
by Bernard Brunhes & Jean-Michel Mestres
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Bernard Brunhes, an acknowledged specialist in the art of industrial mediation, has in recent years embraced the cause of the creators of new businesses. Here, he gives some useful thoughts about creating a company, and thereby employment, explains the collective approach of his movement "France Initiative" and lays down ideas for future ways forward.
Today, "France Initiative" federates some 250 "platforms" which, in a bid to aid budding entrepreneurs, assembles chambers of commerce and professions, companies and banks with the financial backing of territorial community institutions and the Caisse des Dépôts. It is a crucial partnership which helps to kick-start the financing of thousands of nascent companies out in the field and gives company creators or buyers that extra mile of support.
Under some tough questioning, Bernard Brunhes specifically explains the action of these new "companions for company builders". It is also the opportunity for him to look back at his own career as a company manager. As a perfect connoisseur of social and corporate policies, he dwells on the value of the creation of jobs triggered by the boom in micro-companies, without concealing how much this owes to the pressure exerted by present-day circumstances. Here is a pragmatic man who invites the reader to commit whole-heartedly to a new momentum, which amongst other things is having a great effect on the unemployed by getting them back into a job.
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"Profession dirigeant" (Profession, Leader), Dunod
by Gérard Roth & Michal Kurtyka
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Written by two company men, this book deals with the essential components of the profession of leader: devising strategy, evolving and implementing this strategy through the existing managerial system and human resources, and embedding change in the long term. The book has a two-fold ambition, namely conceptual input and the providing of real tools. It develops original notions, such as resonance and dissonance in management, and thoughts about how organizations and the profession of manager are evolving.
It is illustrated with examples and analysis grids taken from managerial practice.
This reference work, from which emerges the indispensable human dimension of management, is addressed to company leaders, consultants and people keen to improve their knowledge of the management of change and the profession of leader. It will also be of great interest to students and potential future managers.
The amusing drawings by Tomi Ungerer add a little fun to proceedings. Michal Kurtyka is the CE of BPI Poland.
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"Esta Desabalada Carreira"
by Gilberto Guimarães
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In this book, published in Brazil, Gilberto Guimarães, the CE of BPI Brazil, has assembled the knowledge he has accumulated during his years spent as a teacher, consultant and director of leading companies. He has set out to give everyone looking for personal and professional advancement the pieces of the puzzle they need to achieve success.
Reading this book will always provide you with some excellent advice or a good suggestion to cope with the many different situations you encounter day to day.
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Publication of no. 18 of the "Cahiers Bernard Brunhes
"Executives and Globalization"
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, major French groups have been constantly focused on internationalization. Their professions, their markets and their shareholders are increasingly going global.
But what are the consequences of this now fast-growing evolution for the jobs of company executives?
In the 1980s, relocation involved only those jobs requiring little or no qualification. Countries which were once seen as "emerging" are now, a little more each day, joining the ranks of world forces in research, engineering and intellectual services.
The impact of globalization on the professional careers of executives is very gradually changing.
A new international division is taking shape in the employment league.
But which shape? This current issue of the "Cahiers Bernard Brunhes" does not provide the answer but it does present points of observation, analysis and thought assembled and summarised on the basis of very many different studies.
Opinion polls have shown that amongst Europeans, the French are the only people who feel that internationalization is more of a threat than an opportunity. Will reading this paper help them to change their minds? We hope so.
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Author: Jean Simonet
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Publication of no. 17 of the "Cahiers Bernard Brunhes"
"A successful merger means putting people first"
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Mergers, acquisitions, alliances and other partnerships between countries are a long-term development and are now a major element in our economic landscape. Yet every second merger is a failure: although operations are undertaken for economic and financial reasons, they fail for reasons related to their social and human aspects.
This issue of the "Cahiers" seeks to understand these apparently contradictory phenomena.
It is based on a study carried out by BPI and Médéric on companies which have experienced mergers and the reactions of various specialists. It provides an opportunity to compare the points of view of the company director, the investment banker, a former minister...and a philosopher. Subsequently, drawing on other studies or testimonials from managers and consultants' experiences, the work lists the conditions for successfully managing a merger.
Readers will find information and food for thought concerning the complex, multiform, uncertain, often painful and unsatisfactory reality of mergers. The work also provides elements to better anticipate the risks, seize the opportunities or identify the meaning of various elements as a manager or as an employee.
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Authors: Pascale Portères, Philippe Audureau, André Comte-Sponville, Jean-Pierre Doly, Régis de Laroullière, Francis Mer, Claude Renié, Jean Simonet, Lionel Zinsou
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Individual or team coaching
By Alain Boureau
Whether practiced one-on-one or with a team, coaching is a powerful tool for assisting key players in businesses.
Those who sign on for a coaching programme are seeking to increase their self-awareness, develop their potential, learn new behaviour patterns, increase their problem-solving skills, better themselves and achieve a clearer perception of objective reality.
If you would like to take advantage of such an opportunity yourself, with your team, or share it with a colleague or group, this issue of "Décryptage" will help you understand what coaching can actually do for you and identify the prerequisites for success.
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Best practices for investing in human capital in Poland
Last October, BPI Polska published a report dealing with "The best practices for Investing in human capital". The authors, Anna Kwiatkiewicz and Joanna Mikolajczak, focused on the most interesting, efficient and profitable solutions contributing to employees' development. Several dozen companies - both Polish and international - were invited to take part in the research and then interviewed. One of the ambitious goals of this research was to reveal the best practices for employees' professional development that would support implementation of the company's strategy and thus contribute to its competitiveness.
The report is available on the following link
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