Libérer son entreprise. Pierre-Yves Antras Preface by Isaac Getz

LIBERATING YOUR COMPANY

Pierre-Yves Antras Preface by Isaac Getz

14 × 19 cm 160 pages softback january 2021 retail price: 18 €

Since 2003, Pierre-Yves Antras has been the director of Haute-Savoie Habitat, a business with a 90 year-old history. Driven by a deep desire for altruism, excellence and coherence, he advocates a form of leadership that is liberating and that can inspire the transformation of businesses and society as a whole. From the desire to become a liberated company to its realization, the necessary transformations are multifold and in perpetual motion. One has to take time to listen closely to management and employees to understand what they need and what they can do to fully unleash their true capabilities. Businesses cannot just liberate themselves from the yoke of the classic restrictive model of management from one day to the next via a linear gameplan. When a business chooses this path, it is like a stream finding its own trajectory down to the sea: the stream reads the relief and overcomes the obstacles of the terrain, accepting its meandering course. This book presents the story of Haute-Savoie Habitat in a more instinctive rather than chronological order; it is after all hard to pin timelines on the intangible. It recounts Pierre-Yves Antras’ own experience and invites us to question the structure of our enterprises and to work with them in order to reveal a new form of management.

The author firmly believes in the possibility of transforming businesses by listening to the people within them. Here he shares a new mode of “win-win” governance aimed at bringing out the best of everyone.

His narrative focuses on the necessary transformation of the manager’s role to that of a leader, or “guardian of a space” in which all workers can express themselves freely through an ethos based on “being” rather than simply “performance”. The work also features testimonies from employees and is a ray of hope for any business eager to break off the illusory shackles of fate and work freely and creatively.