French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
I barely read anything until I turned 18, and suddenly, I started to read a lot, like really a lot, and I keep clocking about 30 books per year, which makes be both happy (so much good knowledge and deep dives!) and very sad (even if I hit my KPI of living up to 105…
“If you weren’t already in a business, would you enter it today ? If the answer is no, what are you going to do about it?” – it is with this type of questions that Peter Drucker became known as one the leading management consulting practitioners and theorists in the second half of the XXth century….
China is entering a new stage of development. Expanding overseas to sustain growth, Chinese companies now threaten the GAFA’s territories. In the last two years, news on Chinese companies have frequently hit the headlines: Telecom equipment giant Huawei became #3 behind Samsung and Apple in the smartphone market. Suning Commerce Group accepted a $6 billion tie-up with Alibaba in…
I’ve just finished “How Asia Works – Success and allure in the world’s most dynamic region” (Amazon) by Joe Studwell, a book I found in the yearly recommendation from The Economist. Overall, it is a compelling comparative economic history of countries in North-East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) and South-East Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines,…
I’ve just finished “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” and wanted to share a few thoughts about this amazing book. A bit like Steve Jobs’s biography, you feel like walking alongside Amazon’s founder and get to know more how he works. Actually, the whole substance of the book is summarized right…
I’ve been given the opportunity to write a chapter of a book by EGE, the Economic Warfare School based in Paris, which I attended in Master a few years ago. This is the leading training program in France and Europe on Business Intelligence, as ranked by SMBG over the years. The book is about the…
You know I’m obsessed with the concept of communities, ecosystems, as I’m convinced it’s a long-time trend that is disrupting, bits by bits, our ancient world made out of companies, states and organizations that adapt too slowly and too badly to the empowered people grouped in communities, across genders, race, countries (end of the…
I’ve long refused reading the books of the top minds of the Valley, probably from fear I could be convinced and would have to change my “fixed mindset” as I recently discover my brain was working. Hopefully, I’m not yet 30 and YES, I did read one of these books and YES, it’s a game-changer…
Pour inaugurer ce blog, je vous propose une promenade dans l’Antiquité, suggérée par Sébastien Durand, conseil en storytelling. Lors de la conférence (lien LNS) tenue au PressClub de France lundi 10 octobre (voir le récap’ en live-tweet sur le blog de Sébastien, et la réflexion de Fleur au sujet de la “néostalgie” sur le blog de…