When targets and metrics are bad for business thehustle.co/Goodharts-Law via Hustle_says

Congratulations to our 2019 #PrixVernimmen Teaching Award winners, #HECprof Olivier BOSSARD, Anne Laure Sellier and Sebastian Becker! cc Knowledge@HEC #HECgrad19

Professors Anne Laure Sellier Anne Laure Sellier, Sebastian Becker Sebastian Becker & Olivier Bossard Olivier BOSSARD are awarded with the #PrixVernimmen by Dean for Research Jacques Olivier & partner BNP Paribas Group for the high quality of their teaching. Big 👏 from students! #HECgrad19

Congrats to our graduates! It was a big pleasure to work with them! #HECgrad19

Lean #startups vs Business plan - Professor Sebastian Becker sharing his expertise on What the Lean Starup has changed for #investors & #Founders at an engaging masterclass on campus in #Qatar.

During the crisis, much of the complicatedness of the traditional work environment melted away.

Check out “Agile meets Beyond Budgeting”. bcg.com/publications/2…

Very honored to receive this prize! Lots of organizations are currently on an agile transformation journey and with this EduScrum initiative I am preparing our participants better for the challenges and realities of their future workplace.

Maybe “transformation” should be about transforming into being able to continuously transform

Do What You Love. And Love What You Do If you pay more, and offer performance bonuses, you’ll get more from employees. Right? Marc-Peter Pijper from Viisi NV says there are better ways to inspire your people. buff.ly/3MvfcR8 #CorporateRebels #EmployeeEngagement #Change

Farewell to the servant economy. Unprofitable “on-demand” services like someone bringing a coke to your door gave people a sense of affluence in a decade of stagnant wage growth. But they were subsidised by investors, and now the money is drying up. ft.com/content/8fcb52…

A budget guarantees that planned cost is spent, but sadly not that planned revenue is earned

The term “human resource management” is unobjectionable except for two words: “resource” and “management.” What’s toxic here is the notion that people are mere instruments, and the assumption that they’re incapable of doing the right thing without being managed from above.

Wise words from the CEO of a startup I am working with: "This isn’t about solving problems we have today, but about avoiding those we will get if we unconsciously drift into them as we grow".

In the face of new technologies, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change, there remain endlessly clever ways to make money, beat the competition, and build truly productive — and profitable — enterprises. hbr.org/2015/05/what-i…

#HECxNexans La Chaire « Orchestrating sustainable business transformation » sera dirigée par #HECprof Sebastian Becker, Sebastian Becker professeur associé de comptabilité et contrôle de gestion à HEC Paris. Society & Organizations Institute Knowledge@HEC #Sustainability #businessdevelopment

Congratulations to Sebastian Becker, management control and accounting #HECprof, for his Chair "Orchestrating sustainable business transformation"! #HECxNexans Prof Becker investigates Beyond Budgeting and management techniques in startups, incubators and entrepreneurial ecosystems

Did you know that Maslow never invented a pyramid? journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.54…

Great turnout at our Beyond Budgeting Roundtable meeting in London today. Merck presenting their great award-winning Beyond Budgeting case.

🚀 HEC Paris MBA participants can apply to join the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), an accelerator program, by putting them in the role of the consultant to a real company. What better way to prepare for the impact you’ll make in your next role? tinyurl.com/2mkvvjwb