Urgency is everywhere. Climate, inflation, food chains and prices, soils, mobility, energy prices, ESG regulation, talent attraction retaining and training, housing, massive renovation of infrastructures and public real estate, toxicity of everything, social unrest, political fragility and division, the megatons of waste pouring straight into nature, biodiversity collapse, massive exclusion…

This winter, we will enter a very very serious energy crisis. But also another one, a very hidden one — touching each one of us, directly. Non financially, but emotionally. We cannot ignore any more the power of our mental thoughts, of our ideas, of our intentions. Numerous studies have…

Why do we — in the West — sooo much want to come back “a before”, and consciously hide our heads into the sand ? A “zoom out” is required here. Some of the reasons are, in my opinion, a psychological spaghetti-like cocktail between : (1) Fear of losing what…

Avec notre équipe « Smart Inclusion », avons analysé 130 projets d’inclusion sur 4 continents, en 2015. Les plus performants, et parfois même économiquement autonomes. Nous avons été totalement surpris de ce que nous avons découvert… Cela nous a fait penser à la parabole où les derniers deviennent les premiers…

What did we learn from the 2008 crisis? From the euro crisis? From the Covid crisis? From the crypto crisis? Or coming up energy and food crisis? Or even from all the biblical collapses of the empires in our history ? Replay story over and over again. Guess what —…

How can we build regenerative business-models, starting from extractive models ? For a company, a city, a territory, a holding,… or even for public services. First, to reassure everybody, the new businesses will be mostly in margin, and complementary to the old ones. You will be able to become “new…

It is too late for “sustainability” as we know it (timing, if we decide to go for it = over 150 years; ex. real estate renovation rate is +/- 0,7%/year). We would need to extract more mineral resources than since the beginning of humanity. Over 50% of the population is…

As during the “internet bubble”, we had a cleanup: the hyper-speculation on real estate in the 2000–2008 era, as well as in any startup lab for 20 years, a large majority of the “apps” never even made it on the market. Now, how many of the crypto’s carry a serious…