So that is it: I am finally out of my summer hibernation, where and when working hours overshadow the resting ones by a lot, and when I get to intensely live a project, for and by said project. I feel a little bit more alive…
Maybe it is cultural, and I confess, while France has been tied to the idea of its reputation, de facto, for ages, without worrying much about its image from abroad, titles and certifications have often been looked up to by a fairly limited number of…
Planning events is a thing I do: without assuming anything (it has proved to lead to relative disasters), I plan, forecast, manage, amend, rewrite, negotiate, suggest, coordinate and implement project phases, define milestones and deliver as per my client’s desiderata. Pretty basic. What is less…
38,000 feet in the air, watching the snow-capped mountains through the window: I am on my way home for a short time, coming back from a business meeting in another part of the continent, in the middle of other beautiful mountains. The captain invited us,…
As we just “celebrated” the 20th. anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the logistics function within the humanitarian field is resonating louder and louder these days. It draws some politician’s attention, definitely some journalists’ too, and it touches people: the ones being assisted in the potential…
What is more challenging than a close-minded manager? When more than one decide to jump in and act as the manager who knew everything… This scenario happened to me while I was still an employee: it was post 9/11 in the aerospace business (yes, I…
9 days. 9 days of thinking, re-thinking, asking, debating and slowly seeing some light. All this on my back, in response to the blind eye I had been turning on some of my body’s signs over the past weeks and months: I have been lying…
It had been talked about for the past years: some other owners and I wanted to get out of that array of green shades around our building. When putting the budget together late last year, we secured some funds for “landscaping”. Big word for our…