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  • Corruption and embezzlement: risk assessment and management failures
    Written by Bernard Brault on 11/03/2011

    Management slippage, waste of public funds, conflicts of interest, embezzlement, abuse of authority, collusion, and corruption can’t even be considered scandals anymore since they’ve become the media’s daily bread. We stopped being touched by such things. As I told you before, the cynicism quasi-humoristic is the numbing ProZac ensuring immunity for the snollygosters and other [...]


     
  • Self-diagnostic – a ponctual mirror of the organization
    Written by Carmen Dumitriu on 03/03/2011

    It’s not easy for the managers and executive staff of an organization to quickly identify relevant weaknesses at the managerial level. Nevertheless, all they need to do is taking into account the matrix model and the Sound Management Framework developed by the Institute of Sound Management in order to develop management tools both simple and [...]


     
  • CPEs in Quebec: In the vanguard of Sound Management
    Written by Carmen Dumitriu on 16/02/2011

    In Québec, educational childcare services are provided by over 1000 daycare centres called CPEs (from French, Centre de la petite enfance). The main objective of the CPEs is to offer a healthy and safe environment for the development and well-being of the children. Moreover, the CPEs must constantly preserve the trust that their clientele, the [...]


     
  • Did you just say “Abnegation?”
    Written by Bernard Brault on 10/02/2011

    One of our readers sent us a few lines related to our discussions regarding bad management cases. “I’m a University teacher in Turkey (Istanbul) and I studied in France, but never in Canada. I find your proposition very interesting (…). The case I’d like to submit to your attention could be the same in every [...]


     
  • Sound Management, between myth and reality
    Written by Gilles Auger on 28/01/2011

    Today, I’ll answer some of the questions that we’re often asked. And that is, on the one hand, to explain and place the Sound Management concept on the management chessboard of Québec and Canada, and more and more at the international level. On the other hand, to clarify the role of the ISM for the [...]


     
  • Shale gas, omnipotence, and bad management
    Written by Bernard Brault on 26/01/2011

    Errors, lies, false transparency, the half-baked presentation from some important leaders destroyed it somehow for several decades. The shale gas is a collective wealth for Québec. And it could help Québec for ensuring at least the financing of the Health Sector. But, this energy locked up in stones is hard to release and, obviously, the [...]


     
  • Good or bad management practice, please send us your cases!
    Written by Bernard Brault on 20/01/2011

    As part of our mission to promote and teach the Sound Management concept, we offer you an interactive activity of a strategic, administrative, and organizational situational case. So, we suggest the Leader’s mail. You could send us a case you know or a case on which you may want our advice. You’ll find our answers [...]


     
  • Québec City: Labeaume harshly criticized
    Written by Bernard Brault on 14/01/2011

    Harsh criticism, but little content. The staggering outbursts of some “political gurus” towards the Mayor of Québec, and the arguments of the three signatories (Francine Bouchard, former city councillor of Québec, Michel Héroux, former chief of the Rector’s office at Laval University, and Pierre Boucher, former president of the National Capital Commission) of the open [...]


     
  • The gift or token of appreciation
    Written by Bernard Brault on 07/01/2011

    Our best wishes for 2011, joy and health to all our members and readers! Let’s hope that all the contradictory opinions due to a bad management will die down and that we’ll regain our trust in the public and private organizations. The Sound Management is just a statement of the main principles. This year we [...]


     
  • Ethical Code or Sound Management?
    Written by Bernard Brault on 09/12/2010

    A French Internet user asked me a question that’s worth writing a blog. “…unfortunately, you haven’t answered the question asked by another blogger as to: why your ‘sound management’ practice is considered superior to an ethical code? Thank you for exemplifying your demonstration with an international example, if possible.” Dear Sir, perhaps, you are right. Unless semantically analysed, there is [...]