Adapting a group of 80,000 people. It’s the daily challenge of Emilie DE LOMBARES, chair of the executive board of Onet and the 7th generation of a family business born in Marseille 160 years ago.
In this new episode of Quotient A, with Evelyne Dentz, we explored with her a form of adaptation that is rarely expressed with such clarity: holding one’s convictions as a foundation, and putting them back into question when the evidence demands it.
No soft flexibility. No sterile rigidity. A deliberate step to the side.
Some highlights of our conversation: – Selling off the temp staffing business in order to stay strong on the core of service professions where our teams take responsibility on our clients’ sites – The right to make mistakes, provided the decision was built collectively – Letting go of a conviction about communication on diversity, on team engagement – Cobotics as a model for human/robot integration in service professions – And this sentence that sums it all up: “My job is to make sure the decision is built well.”
A dense, grounded episode, without posturing. Worth listening to.