Field notes
Notes from the ground
What I see passing through the desks of the leaders I work with: succession, governance, conflict, sustainability. No consulting theory — observations and methods that hold.
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CSRD After Omnibus: Why Exempt SMEs Are Still Being Asked
Omnibus took the vast majority of companies out of mandatory sustainability reporting. It did not remove the demand. It moved it to the buyers.
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Business Succession: Why Three Years Is the Real Minimum
370,000 French businesses to hand over by 2030, around 26,000 deals a year. The gap is not a market problem. It is a preparation problem.
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Shareholder Conflict: What Eighteen Months of Silence Really Costs
A shareholder dispute is measured not in legal fees but in decisions never taken. Why mediation almost always arrives too late, and how to start in time.
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The First 100 Days: How a New Chief Executive Buys the Right to Decide
Your first hundred days are not there to prove your worth. They are there to buy the right to decide. A four-stage method, drawn from several handovers.
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