Olivier Lavergne - Technology Services Engagement Manager Europe at Hewlett Packard

Me In Three

  • Leadership attributes of the XXI century have not changed much. It is the environment in which we have to mobilize and show these attributes, which is different. What Leaders showed for centuries face to face must now be shown in a virtual connected world and generate the same level of energy and inspiration. This is the fundamentally new challenge of the XXI century leader
  • No matter how much the environment has changed, leadership remains about getting the most and the best of the people we are responsible for supporting
  • Leadership remains about showing by example. Do not expect to be trusted and respected when you do not apply to yourself what you expect from others. You must be ready to "eat your own dog food"

myMIX

Interestingly enough, many management surveys show that there is a high degree of trust from employees toward their first-line manager and that trust is eroding level after level as we are getting... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on November 29, 2010 0 Comments
Yes, it is time to reinvent management but that reinvention should not be limited to the managerial fonction itself or it may miss the benefits of unleashing the leader in each and everyone of us... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on November 29, 2010 0 Comments
Some time ago, I watched a free webinar by Dr. Daniel H. Kim, co-founder of Pegasus communications, about the need to invent the 3rd Generation of Leadership for the XXI century. Some of the ideas... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 2, 2010 0 Comments
I suspect most of you are mostly familiar with CMMI as the Capability Maturity Model Integration. What about CMMI as the Corporate Management Maturity Model? Such a model could be used to assess the... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 2, 2010 2 Comments
I was watching an interesting IMD webcast the other day where their professor of marketing was killing some myths about entrepreneurship. For instance, he was saying that an entrepreneur is not... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 2, 2010 0 Comments
When was the last time you looked at a Dilbert cartoon and a big smile appeared on your face? Let's face it, if these cartoons make us laugh, it is not only because they are sarcastic but also... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 1, 2010 0 Comments
How many of you have seen this sarcastic picture of a manager keyboard with a single key on it? The now famous "FYI" key... In France, we have saying for that: "There is no smoke without fire", which... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 1, 2010 0 Comments
How often did I hear managers tell me that the way they had to behave did not reflect who they were any longer, their behaviour was dictated by the system they were in, it was coming from the top... Read more
Hack by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on December 1, 2010 0 Comments
Some of you may know the renowned photographer, Yann Arthus Bertrand. He is particularly famous for his series of shots of "the earth viewed from the sky". He also ran several eponymous TV reports in... Read more
Story by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on November 30, 2010 0 Comments
Did you ever watch the movie "Paths of glory" from Stanley Kubrick with Kirk Douglas? This movie, which tells some of the darkest pages of the french history during World War I includes several... Read more
Story by Olivier Lavergne of Hewlett Packard on November 30, 2010 0 Comments