by Mark Harling | Nov 9, 2023 | Blog
Do you remember the television advertisment for Mc Cain’s French fries in the early 1990s? The slogan was “Those who talk the least, eat the most”. For years now, we’ve been talking about a VUCA world Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous...
by Mark Harling | Oct 26, 2023 | Blog
How do you assess a person’s ability to adapt to an unfamiliar environment? How do you know if a future member of your team will be able to adapt to the new environment? Will the person you wish to promote be able to handle the increased level of complexity? 🧐 A...
by Mark Harling | Oct 12, 2023 | Blog
During my work with Roche, I was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of the systemic approach. Systemic thinking means considering elements/teams in dynamic inter-relationship, analyzing the nature of these relationships, and finding pragmatic and creative ways to...
by Mark Harling | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog
In 2018, I had the pleasure of collaborating on a project using the fundamentals of coaching and creative problem solving to co-create a parenting value-based coaching system with Ismet Mamnoon called Parenting Up ⏫ I met Ismet at a conference on creativity and...
by Mark Harling | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog
What if, in order to progress in our careers and find fulfillment at work, we built upon our strengths rather than focusing on what we lack? What if we focused on what we do best? After conducting polls and surveys around the world, on a sample of 10 million people,...
by Mark Harling | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog
Something I hear too often is that strategy is only useful for large corporations. A few days ago, I was invited by a small business close to Nantes, to organize a workshop dedicated to creating a strategy and vision for one of their revenue streams. Defining a...
by Mark Harling | Aug 17, 2023 | Blog
In a traditional meeting, Pareto’s famous law also applies: 20% of participants generate 80% of the thinking, and most of the time, shy or introverted people don’t speak up. Does that mean that if you’re shy, you have nothing relevant to say? That if...
by Mark Harling | Aug 3, 2023 | Blog
During my last trip abroad, I had the pleasure to visit the company Synaps, in Lebanon : a research laboratory that produces knowledge to serve society on three themes: everyday economics, environmental stress, and digital transformation. The aim of the workshop was...
by Mark Harling | May 11, 2021 | Blog
I went for a bicycle ride with the children and it turned out we had a wonderful illustration of the theory of constraints. The children had great fun in towing each other with a strap and when the youngest was towing the oldest, we avoided all the drama of being...
by Mark Harling | Jan 25, 2021 | Life Lab
At LifeLab, we are aware that the children of today will shape the world of tomorrow, hence our motto “Today’s Students. Tomorrow’s World”. We teach children to think for themselves by enriching their life skills at problem solving, whatever the nature of the problem....
