Besides readings on environmental ethics (J. Baird Callicott in particular, but also Arne Naess, Emilie Hache, Paul Hawken, Janine Benyus,…), two authors have had a strong impact on my thinking and actions this year:

• Isaac Getz, who gave a seminar for Philosophie & Management in January 2011 and
• Ricardo Semler, who didn’t 😉 but whose books I have read with great joy.

Both have helped me formalize the insights I had developed through the years managing teams and helped me to manage better, to the point of being ready to « give up control ».

In this document, you will find a few revealing sentences from their respective books.

In the following two presentations in English I have included reflections on managerial and social innovation, building among others on Getz and Semler:

• Freedom to co-create: lessons from a personal journey
• Social innovation through entreprises

For those reading French, the following three documents also build, among others, on their ideas:

• « Liberating » management within a large bank: presentation at Unesco
• « Liberating » management principles (applied within the department of a large bank) 
• A short guide to managers’ liberation