This week, we learn to distinguish good management techniques from the most harmful with Laurent Berbon, digital editor-in-chief of L’Express, also in charge of the Leadership section.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Léa Bertrand (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
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Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Charlotte Baris: In preparing this episode, we asked for archives from Anne Marion, the librarian at L’Express – whom our most loyal listeners now know well. She found us exactly what we needed: an old issue dated November 10, 1969. Its title: “What is management for?”
On the cover, we see a man wearing a well-tailored suit and glasses with large frames. His face is surrounded by colorful panels which praise the new management methods of the time. Marketing, the integration of the company into society and its environment, the arrival of the first computers. In the file, the journalist Jean-Jacques Faust says this: “Management is a set of disciplines and techniques of management and direction. It is also – and perhaps above all – a way of being, of wanting and to accept progress.” At the time, this front page of L’Express stood out for its modernity. The managers who testify in this case are described as true pioneers.
Today, management is omnipresent in the world of work. Its methods have widely developed, but so have its excesses. On the front page of L’Express this week, you will not see colorful signs but post-it notes. Use of coaching, brainstorming, development of teleworking. L’Express tells you everything about the good – and not so good – management techniques, in a 21-page file that we show to La Loupe in this episode.
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