Paru le 14/08/2015 | Broché 103 pages
Public motivé
Managerial stories from countries in transition
Case studies and lessons learned from the Saint-Gobain Group in Poland and Romania
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain celebrates its 350th anniversary this year. It has been and remains a great crucible for managers. Of course, all the top managers, who have guided the Group in its growth and international expansion come to mind. Several have continued their careers elsewhere : illustrious CEO's in several major French groups and many others who may have been less visible, but nevertheless effective in the fields of distribution, furnishings, automobiles, petrochemicals, heavy industry, aeronautics and finance. Many earned their operational stripes in Saint-Gobain.
This collection offers a glimpse of operational and practical challenges that grounds Saint-Gobain's « School of Management » pupils in handling complexity and valuing collective intelligence, while eschewing ready-made solutions, miracle cures and universal managerial techniques.
These six testimonies of real management predicaments all bear the same hallmark. They are infinitely more evocative than any profession of principles. They took place 7 or 8 years ago in Poland and Romania, but they could very well occur today or tomorrow in Vietnam, Columbia, Turkey or Ghana.
Formerly a student of Ecole Polytechnique and a graduate engineer from Ecole des Mines, having obtained a Masters in International Political Science, Olivier Lluansi began his career in the European Commission. In 1999, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the French Nord-Pas de Calais Region, before joining Saint-Gobain in 2003, where he held different positions before becoming General Delegate for Eastern Europe in 2008. In 2012, he was appointed Industry and Energy Advisor to the French President's office, where he served until 2014, until joining the management team of RTE, the French electrical grid operator.
