Non Violent Communication

I want to share with you  the concept of “Non-Violent Communication” created by the psychologist Marshall Rosenberg in the seventies. It is a method of conflict resolution, but, if practiced daily, it can become even more, a sort of life style and an effective way to tackle whole human relationships. The main goal of “Non Violent …

The personal microcredit

I recently met, during the last green drinks event,  two very nice people that were working for the Red Cross, in the Microcredit Service. What is different comparing to micro loans, is that the credits are not necessary granted for entrepreneurship purposes. As explained on the red cross site, these microcredits have 3 main goals : allowing …

Because we had no choice

I have sometimes this guilty pleasure of sitting in font of the TV and watching for more than one hour Mohamed Hassanein Heikal chatting about the political events of the seventies, telling hundreds of anecdotes and discussions he had with the past leaders. Here is one that particularly caught my attention I was in London 2 …

High Education for all

I had the opportunity to work as a volunteer, for the CIST , the Center for Information System Training, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is basically a center concerned by helping brilliant student from remote and poor area to get access to higher and quality education. Several selection sessions are organized all over the country …

Is an MBA worthy ?

For sure,  Steve Jobs has not even graduated, and he is now on the top of the most creative and growing company in the world..and yes you can have the highest impact in your area without finishing high school…so what ? If you want to get access to new opportunities, new fields and new networks, …

Dinner with Bechir Ben Yahmed

Thanks to the ATUGE, I had this awesome opportunity to sit in the same room as Bechir Ben Yahmed and listen to his anecdotes and insights about the contemporary Tunisian history. I’ve known that he was the information minister in one of the first governments of the independent and young Tunisian Republic. He is also …