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  <title>pH neutre — Field notes</title>
  <subtitle>Notes from the ground by Pierrick Halflants: succession, governance, executive leadership.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
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  <author><name>Pierrick Halflants</name><email>ph@phneutre.be</email></author>
  <entry>
    <title>CSRD After Omnibus: Why Exempt SMEs Are Still Being Asked</title>
    <link href="https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/csrd-omnibus-smes/"/>
    <updated>2026-08-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/csrd-omnibus-smes/</id>
    <summary>Omnibus took the vast majority of companies out of mandatory sustainability reporting. It did not remove the demand. It moved it to the buyers.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Business Succession: Why Three Years Is the Real Minimum</title>
    <link href="https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/succession-starting-early/"/>
    <updated>2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/succession-starting-early/</id>
    <summary>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.</summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Shareholder Conflict: What Eighteen Months of Silence Really Costs</title>
    <link href="https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/shareholder-conflict-mediation/"/>
    <updated>2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/shareholder-conflict-mediation/</id>
    <summary>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.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>The First 100 Days: How a New Chief Executive Buys the Right to Decide</title>
    <link href="https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/first-100-days-plan/"/>
    <updated>2026-05-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <id>https://www.phneutre.group/en/blog/first-100-days-plan/</id>
    <summary>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.</summary>
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