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Author Archives: François Couillard
Happy news: joining CAMRT
On February 4th, I will be joining CAMRT as its next CEO. The Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists is Canada’s national professional association for radiological, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging technologists and radiation therapists. Continue reading
Why bad strategies fail to produce change
Textbook strategic planning is too often bland and static. It lose the sharp focus and energy vital to execution. Effective strategies confront the core issues of your organization. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and management, Non-profits, Strategy
Tagged Resources, Richard P. Rumelt, stakeholders, strategic planning, Strategy
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Tips from Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is a professor of Psychology at Princeton University who received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, he distills a lifelong journey of learning into over 400 pages of insights. Humans, it turns out, are not such rational animals after all. We are all victims of intuitive biases. Read the book, and if you’re looking for a few quick tips, read on. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and management, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged Biases, Halo effect, intuition, Kahneman, Luck, overconfidence, Skills
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Business as a source of Social Innovation: part 3- Social well-being
In this last post of a series of 3, I talk about how businesses can be a source of socio-economic well-being for employees and communities in which they operate. Continue reading
Business as a source of Social Innovation: part 2- Environmental Stewardship
Enterprises should use resources in a responsible fashion — reduce utilization and waste, recycle, and adopt renewable energies. Unfortunately, economic systems are not well-suited to address environmental issues. Businesses have a short-term perspective and limited geographic impact. Environmental issues evolve over long time periods and have global implications. Continue reading
Business as a source of Social Innovation: part 1- New products, services or markets
In what ways can businesses be a source of social innovation? There are three broad areas where socially innovative businesses should focus their efforts: New products, services or markets; Environmental stewardship; Social well-being of their employees and the communities in which they operate. Continue reading
Posted in CSR & Sustainability, Marketing, Social Business, Social Innovation, Strategy
Tagged business, Environment, Innovation, Mohamed Yunus, social innovation
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The perils of being optimistic and overconfident
Optimism drives you to persevere in the face of adversity, when the odds are against you. It gives you resilience. There is also a negative side to optimism. Be wary. Optimism is “widespread, stubborn, and costly…the optimism bias may well be the most significant of the cognitive biases.” Continue reading
The state of Impact investing according to the Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation just released its report on impact investment titled: Accelerating Impact- Achievements, Challenges and What’s Next in Building the Impact Investing Industry. It provides a snapshot in time of the state of this emerging sector. Continue reading
Mintzberg, Tolstoy, Kahneman on leaders and strategy: things are not as simple as they seem.
We tend to oversimplify reality. There are few domains so prone to this tendency than the study of the influence of great leaders and their strategies. Three outstanding authors offer remarkable insights: Tolstoy, Mintzberg and Kahneman. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership and management, Strategy
Tagged Kahneman, leaders, leadership, Mintzberg, Strategy, Tolstoy
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10 Ways to reduce global poverty according to Paul Collier and C.K. Prahalad
This blog post is a follow-up to last week’s discussion about Collier and Prahalad’s respective perspectives on international development. It looks at 10 suggestions to reduce global poverty. Continue reading
Posted in CSR & Sustainability, Social Innovation
Tagged Africa, Aid, business, NGO's, Paul Collier, Poverty, Prahalad, Trade
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