In 1925, the anthropologist Marcel Mauss suggested that giving and receiving gifts is about more than generosity. It’s actually the key to social relationships. When that key becomes rusty, everyone involved loses faith, trust breaks down and cooperation stops. So how do we polish that key and keep it turning? How do we reach the point where giving doesn’t drain us, and receiving doesn’t turn into an obligation that goes beyond what’s reasonable?

In the midst of a boom in personal development, there are now countless books, podcasts, conferences and webinars on how to accept and manage your emotions. But does that mean we have all become “hypersensitive”? Is it really possible to “manage” our emotions, and those of others, especially our employees? Are managers really expected to handle every expression of sadness and anger—both their own and in their team? And how can you develop your emotional intelligence without adding to your mental load? Here are a few practical ideas.

Researchers Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde, and Lise Vesterlund look into “Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don't Lead to Promotions” in an op-ed in the Harvard Business Review. One of the reasons they give is that women do a lot of the “glue work”, or non-promotable work, in a business. We explain what it is and how it can hinder women's careers.

Who are the women who have shaken up the entrepreneurial, cultural or political landscape, and how have they forged a path for others who want to dare? For this fourth edition, we met with Véronique Penchienati-Bosetta, Deputy CEO of the Danone Group since 2023.

Interview with Laurent Siebert, senior VP internal audit at Schneider and participant in EVE.

Who are the women shaking up the entrepreneurial, cultural, or political scene, and how have they forged a path for others who want to dare? For this second edition, we meet Marianne Bathily, a Franco-Senegalese entrepreneur and creator of the SenTalk Shows. She also promotes a resolutely modern vision of inclusion.

72% of young workers rank emotional intelligence as the most important skill for manager, according to a study by LégiSocial and TodoSkills. This figure illustrates a major paradigm shift, accelerated by the Covid crisis and driven by the expectations of Generation Z, who are redefining the employment contract. Management is more and more about an ability to handle human relationships. How can companies meet this expectation, and what are the concrete benefits and potential risks?

Alice Vivian, trainer and author of the book Et si le corps était la clé ? believes that authentic leadership happens when the body, heart and mind come into alignment. But why is alignment essential, not only for the individual but also for the collective and the organization as a whole? Alice Vivian, explains.

Are sincerity and authenticity completely interchangeable? Similar or complementary? Do they have the same moral value? We’re hearing more and more about sincerity and authenticity in management lexicon, and the degree of importance they are given varies greatly from one individual to another, depending on their education, culture or even how they interact with others.

In his famous book Lean In! CEO Sheryl Sandberg advises women who want to succeed to surround themselves with the right people... Especially by avoiding people who would be tempted to shade you, by practicing manterrupting, bropropriating or simply by taking up so much space that you would not have an ounce of space left to be even a little visible. It's better to surround yourself with people who will make you shine!

In his famous book Lean In! CEO Sheryl Sandberg advises women who want to succeed to surround themselves with the right people... Especially by avoiding people who would be tempted to shade you, by practicing manterrupting, bropropriating or simply by taking up so much space that you would not have an ounce of space left to be even a little visible. It's better to surround yourself with people who will make you shine!

In his famous book Lean In! CEO Sheryl Sandberg advises women who want to succeed to surround themselves with the right people... Especially by avoiding people who would be tempted to shade you, by practicing manterrupting, bropropriating or simply by taking up so much space that you would not have an ounce of space left to be even a little visible. It's better to surround yourself with people who will make you shine!

According to an activity report by the Collectif Mentorat, 77% of young mentees say that mentoring has boosted their self-confidence. And for good reason: in a high-pressure work environment, role models give employees a sense of purpose amid uncertainty. They provide meaning. So, in the face of workers’ quest for meaning and recognition, can role models become the catalysts for a more inclusive and engaging workplace culture?

How do you recognize a great leader? It’s someone whose intellect is often admired, or the power of their speech or strategic vision, and we ignore how they look. “And besides, many people only express themselves with their upper body,” notes Christina Balanos, a communications and leadership expert. In other words, we might think and speak well, but we don’t fully embody what we say...

Cyril Augier founded and directs A Nous de Jouer !, a structure halfway between a theatre company, a consulting firm and a training centre. His bet: to convey the sensitive messages of change through comedy. Her show "Madame le directeur" is performed in companies that want to engage with their employees in a dialogue on gender diversity, professional equality and female leadership.

When we say "Women's Day", it has the merit of being short, direct, punchy. But the flaw of being reductive, overused and a little rude. Not in the sense of vulgar, in the sense of insufficiently fine and precise. Because THE woman, we searched well, but we didn't find her. We have met WOMEN, yes, by the hundreds, by the thousands, by the millions and billions (they are never more than about 3.5 billion). They all have a unique story, all an authentic personality, all a journey of their own.

2% of street names attributed to famous women (we talked about them in our web review just yesterday), barely more than 3% of female historical figures among those mentioned in school textbooks (as revealed a few weeks ago by a study by the Hubertine Auclert Center), only 2 women in the French Pantheon (one of whom rests there as a wife)... But why are women so rare in the contingent of those whose essential contribution to the progress of humanity is recognized?

Smurfette, everyone knows who it is, right? A bouncy and smiling blonde in a lace dress and immaculate cap mounted on small pearly pumps. She lives in the fabulous land of the Smurfs where she was sent by the evil wizard Gargamel.... In order to sow discord in the village of the gentiles! Ouch! When the role reserved for the female character is to disturb the beautiful and good established order, it starts to get bad!

To the thorniest question of labour relations, Jean-Edouard Grésy provides the answers of the art and science of negotiation. Co-founder of the negotiation and conflict management consulting firm AlterNego and a regular speaker at EVE, Jean-Edouard Grésy is also the author of a book with a highly promising title: Gestion les ingérables!

Long perceived as a sign of laziness or lack of professionalism, napping at work is starting to make its way into the habits of some pioneering companies. And rightly so! The benefits of this micro-rest, when practiced well, are now documented and validated by scientific research. Beyond the clichés, it could well be a real lever for performance and well-being for organizations.

Faced with crises, tense situations, difficulties that seem major or even insurmountable or simply the knots that we make in our brain for more or less serious things, we know that we have to know how to let go!

Where to start? By considering that creating conditions favorable to the expression of positive emotions is a non-optional investment. A study by the University of Warwick found that employees who were in a good mood were about 13% more productive than when they weren't...

At work, laughter is an extraordinary tool: it fluidifies human relationships, establishes complicity, reduces age differences, promotes links between teams and can even defuse conflicts.

Once used as a signal to reassure peers of a safe situation, laughter is now recognized as an expression of joy with many benefits. "First of all, on the body and the mind," reveals Lionel Neveux.

A first point is necessary: normalize the difficulty presented by this double mental load. "It's a rhythm of life that often (if not always) proves to be tiring and complex to set up," notes Valérie Rocoplan. And there is nothing abnormal about being able to admit it, without fear of the judgment of others. »

For several years now, there has been an extension of family frameworks and parenting methods. While in our imagination corporate measures on this subject are aimed at pregnant women, they must now involve fathers, single-parent families and the sandwich generation more.

Stress, anxiety, burnout... Nearly one in four employees report poor mental health, according to the latest figures published by Ipsos in January 2025. So how can you preserve your mental and physical health and that of your employees in these conditions?

Women don't need to be drawn a picture: 97% of them know what we're talking about when it comes to mental load. For 52%, it is the fact that "you have to constantly think about everything, all the time and for everyone". For the 14% most burdened by this burden, this translates into "the impression of being overwhelmed, of not getting by on a daily basis".

While one in ten women is affected by endometriosis in France, the consideration of this disease at work remains a subject that is too often forgotten in the daily lives of employees. Yet, the impacts are high, both for individuals and for the organization, and position women's health as a major issue for companies.

Via a survey on LinkedIn, we asked you the question "what does gender diversity mean to you first?". And you were all right! Because if today, when we talk about diversity, we immediately understand that we are talking about gender balance, it is important to know that the connotations of the term have varied over the course of recent history, particularly according to socio-political contexts and collective issues. Here's an overview.

According to a study by BCG published in 2019, start-ups set up by women are on average 30% less likely to be supported by investors, thus revealing the maintenance of a glass ceiling. However, since the 2000s, studies and companies have taken up the subject by advocating the benefits of gender diversity in the workplace. How can we evaluate this argument today, 25 years later?

According to a British study, 75% of the speaking time in meetings is captured by men. Hierarchical conformism, majority biases and stereotypes are all obstacles to parity in a mixed environment.

It's difficult to talk about intelligence without talking about the collective. And for good reason, for Professor Émile Servan-Schreiber, the two are linked: "Today there is no intelligence that is not organized on the basis of a collective," says the expert.

Each year, the FNEP foundation (National Foundation for Enterprise and Performance) offers executives from companies, administrations or grandes écoles the opportunity to compare their experiences and enrich their thinking with concrete proposals. For its second report, eight co-authors looked at the place of people and emotions at the heart of companies and administrations, in a book entitled I feel, you feel, we are... Mathilde Svagelski, a member of the SNCF AU FÉMININ network and internal auditor in the Audit and Risk Department, is one of them.

The notion of "agency" is increasingly present in sociology and philosophy, particularly those devoted to gender issues and empowerment issues. But what exactly is agency? Why is the notion debated? To what extent can it be useful in companies? Let's take a closer look at the concept!

The Paris Olympic Games will be the first in history to be gender-balanced: 5250 female athletes and 5250 male athletes are expected to attend this major international sporting event. But does parity mean diversity? Not quite. Taking an interest in the way sport deals with the issue of gender equality is particularly interesting for thinking about the subject in the workplace as well.

Does appreciative leadership mean that we appreciate the exercise of leadership? Not quite. But that doesn't stop you from taking pleasure in taking on responsibilities and getting others on board. You might even like it even more when you learn more about this new approach to leadership! Let us explain.

"Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don't Lead to Promotions?" ("Why are women willing to do tasks that don't serve their careers?") ask researchers Linda Babcock, Maria P. Recalde and Lise Vesterlund at the top of an op-ed published in the Harvard Business Review. But what are these authors talking about? "Glue work" or non-promotable work! We explain what it is and to what extent it is an obstacle to women's careers.

When you read the title of this article out loud, you may have been taken by a slight worry: what, are we going to give all power to teenagers?! Don't panic, adhocracy is a way of organizing work that is particularly adapted to unstable and complex contexts. Its two main assets: multidisciplinarity and flexibility. We explain everything to you.

If you've ever played Color Addict, you're familiar with the Stroop effect, but you may not know that this is what the interference of irrelevant information in a cognitive task is called. The game consists of reading cards on which the same word contains two pieces of information: for example, the word "green" is written, but it is written in blue ink. When you have to process a large amount of information at a high frequency, chances are that you will confuse green and blue!

It's strange, since you found out that your colleague is expecting a baby, you see pregnant women everywhere! Is there a baby boom underway? Everything conspires to make you think so, suddenly: everywhere articles on parenting, reports on pregnancy, ads for childcare equipment and information on the health of babies in the doctor's waiting room. What if you were the subject of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon?

How is it that the most competent people are also those who have the most tendency to the impostor complex... And conversely, that the people who are the least qualified on a subject are the most peremptory when they give their opinion, or even the most daring when it comes to taking it up?

How is it that the most competent people are also those who have the most tendency to the impostor complex... And conversely, that the people who are the least qualified on a subject are the most peremptory when they give their opinion, or even the most daring when it comes to taking it up?

Since 2021, the UN has dedicated a World Day of Human Fraternity, celebrated on February 4. Dedicated to the promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, its title refers to a great principle of the Enlightenment: the consideration of all men by all men as if they were brothers.

"Everything has to change so that nothing changes," says the main character of the novel and film The Leopard, in order to reassure his aristocratic friends that the advent of the Republic will not really destabilize their position in society.

What makes feedback produce learning and change? Feedback! But what is it, then? We take a closer look at the concept.

When François Rabelais says "laughter is the characteristic of man", we understand of course that he is talking about humanity... But the question still deserves to be asked: are women and men equal when it comes to laughter? To find out, let's take a look at the figures and the scientific literature on the subject.

The body of legislation sometimes contains strange curiosities, which persist over time, testifying to a past era when societal issues were different and gender relations were conceived differently...

Imagine you're making a feature film. A great adventure film. A future blockbuster. You are aware of gender inequalities: there is no question of you presenting female characters as fragile little things placed under the protection of strong male characters.

The most famous of the gastronomic guides has only one triple star (out of 29) and two female chefs with 2 stars (out of 75) at the moment. However, INSEE tells us that 80% of the time spent preparing meals in families falls to women. Isn't there a problem? Why is the daily meal for moms alone with the gas stove when the dishes of the gourmets with a hefty bill are the business of men surrounded by a whole brigade?

We have often heard Hobbes' phrase: "man is a wolf to man", meaning that threat and war characterize the heart of our humanity. But what about women? Is war only a "man's business"? Are they only destined to be victims of wars without having their names inscribed on monuments? How are women's rights and sustainable peace linked? We talk about it!

A brand new study by researchers at Columbia Business School highlights that women executives now negotiate more and better than men! This is a bit counterintuitive and well worth talking about.

We have been told for a long time about the articulation of life times and more recently about the right to disconnect... But can we still imagine separating space-time while strictly preserving the private area of work? Isn't the "blurring" of professional/personal boundaries the very marker of the lifestyles of our time?

Have you ever had the feeling, when faced with an unsatisfactory, unfair, abnormal or even frankly violent situation, that you no longer know if you were really a victim or "only" making up your mind, if not completely losing your mind? The technique of mental manipulation consisting of disorienting a person who is bullied until he or she is no longer sure of anything and especially not of his or her judgment has a name: gaslighting.

After the "mental load", we are now hearing more and more about the "emotional load" which also affects women more. What exactly does this "emotional charge" consist of? Is it as gendered as we think? And how can organizations take up the subject? We talk about it!

The EVE program focused on two women leaders who come together around a common goal, to prevent and defeat stroke in women. Sophie Amarenco and Réjane Lacoste explain their commitment to the #Agir campaign and the Woman and Stroke collective.

Change is the promise of many exciting things: novelty, improvements to the existing, opportunities to learn, opportunities to produce value... We know it, we are convinced and in principle, we are up for it... Yes, but when it comes to making change, we find ourselves to be much more resilient than we imagined. But why is that?

The corporate finance ecosystem underwent a (not-so) small revolution in 2022: that year, funds invested more in Series A in start-ups with mixed teams than in start-ups led by all-male teams!

According to a study by the University of Zurich published in January 2023, when women enter a profession, men leave it. The phenomenon is not new, as it has seen the professions of judge, teacher or certain specialties in medicine become more feminized to the point that the share of men is now reduced to the bare minimum.

Maybe you follow the "Pépite sexist" account on Twitter and/or Instagram. In this case, you will have seen Valentine's Day campaigns of questionable taste, an advertisement for tea bags playing on gender roles in parenthood, the banner of an e-commerce site assuming the stereotype of the spendthrift woman, a slew of gendered toy visuals and bias in advertising messages. Is advertising having trouble making its anti-sexist revolution? We talk about it!

We all place a lot of hope in the "new economy": new growth drivers, new ways of working, innovative solutions for the ecological transition, for access to healthcare, for the fight against poverty... But what can this "new economy" do for professional equality and balanced leadership? The place of women in start-ups invites us to think and act so that the age of tech is also the era of diversity.

The concept of "mental load" now has its derived notions: we speak of "contraceptive load" to evoke the fact that the prevention of unwanted pregnancies relies mainly on women or of "emotional load" to describe the overexposure of women to the emotional demands of those around them. In terms of "cognitive loads", we are also increasingly talking about "ecological load". But what exactly is it? The editorial staff of the EVE web magazine takes a closer look at the concept.

The literature on soft-skills talks about it all the time: mental and psychological flexibility is the gateway to all other interpersonal skills. The idea is not new: already in the 1930s, Marie Jahoda highlighted this skill among the latent functions of work. Today, the notion of psychological flexibility is at the heart of the ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) approach used in therapy but also in the support of managers with change issues. But what exactly is psychological flexibility? We take a closer look at the concept.

In 1981, the film "Sois belle et tais-toi" by Delphine Seyrig was released. 35 years before #MeToo, the actress and director gave the floor to some twenty women in cinema, from Maria Schneider to Jane Fonda, Shirley McLaine, Patti d'Arbanville and Anne Wiazemsky. Without naming the concept, these women were already talking about the "male gaze" and its effects on the condition of actresses on film sets and in the 7th art industry but also on the image of women in society as a whole. In the cinema, men look at them and women are watched, in short. And this would shape our imaginations in a distribution of gendered roles. But why does this "male gaze" sometimes cause controversy? We talk about it!

According to some historians and anthropologists, it is to the Paleolithic period and the invention of agriculture that we owe the origin of gender inequalities. The transition from the relatively egalitarian model of hunter-gatherers to one based on the domestication of plants and animals would have favoured a distribution of tasks, functions and spaces separating women and men according to an order that would be hierarchical. Where are we 10 millennia later? We take stock of the place of women in agriculture.

Boldness is one of our key words in the EVE Program! For more than a decade, we have been encouraging everyone to dare more. If this state of mind of audacity transpires in all the content of our web magazine, it is true that we have not yet devoted a large article to it in our flagship section: "the concept under the magnifying glass". So, here it is, this in-depth investigation into audacity!

Do you feel (sometimes, often, almost all the time) stressed? What we can already tell you is that you are not alone: according to a recent study on the psychological well-being of the French, 64% of us feel stress at work at least once a week and the figure is even higher (70%) among those who telework regularly. Well, feeling less alone doesn't solve the whole problem. So, we give you some tips to better deal with this state of nervous tension that makes us tired.

Recent studies (UCLA 2019, Cambridge 2022) show that empathy has a gender... The feminine gender! This readily reinforces an essentialism that attributes to women superior qualities in terms of emotional and relational intelligence. But can we so easily conclude from these studies that empathy is a female skill? We talk about it!

For a long time, it was said that men drew and women were drawn. Between 1974 and 2000, the Angoulême Festival awarded its Grand Prix to only one woman, Claire Brétecher... In the end, over nearly 50 years of existence, this international distinction has only rewarded 7% of female cartoonists. But the festival is concerned about it, as evidenced by initiatives such as the round table held in 2021 on the invisibilization of women in the history of comics.

Have you ever thought about taking optimism classes? If you participated in the workshops of mental fitness coach Patricia Sennequier during the EVE Africa 2022 seminar, you know that looking on the bright side of life is a superpower... And that a superpower is revealed and it becomes muscular. But don't panic if you weren't in Dakar, here are some tips to cultivate and strengthen your capacity for optimism.

The "nurse syndrome" is often invoked in the field of private relationships, to refer to women (mainly) who tend to invest in intimate relationships with people in pain whom they find themselves taking care of, at the risk of permanently establishing an imbalance in the couple, or even toxic relationships. But the nurse syndrome is also expressed in the world of work. We take stock of this issue.

One in three French people has volunteer activities: 20 million of us give our time for free for others or for a cause! Volunteer work corresponds to 580,000 "full-time equivalents". But what is the place of women in volunteering?

For decades, the ins and outs of the glass ceiling have been instructed, many concepts have made it possible to identify the social obstacles that delay women's careers, but also certain obstacles internalized by women themselves that make them hold back their momentum. We think of the imposture complex or the good student complex, in which these two levels of brakes intervene, external to the individual but also internal. But there is also the large poppy syndrome. What is it?

For at least a good decade, we have only had soft skills on our lips when the conversation comes to the field of management and leadership. However, it is clear that there is a certain inertia in managerial behaviour and traditional methods of assessing skills. So, are soft skills taken seriously enough? The editorial staff of the EVE web magazine opens the debate.

The video game industry is now worth more than $300 billion (for comparison, that's more than the GDP of Finland or Chile) and affects more than 500 million users around the world. In other words, this industry is now more important than the film and music industries combined. It is therefore an understatement to say that we are facing a behemoth of economic power but also of soft power... But what is the place of women in this "game"? We take stock.

Recognition is the first lever of motivation at work for 76% of employees. This figure rises to 84% among those under 30 (Harvard Business Review, 2020). But no more than 26% of employed people feel recognized at work (My Happy Job, 2021). But what is this essential "recognition" made of? We take stock.

In the aftermath of World Teachers' Day promoted by UNESCO, we invite you to take stock of the place that women occupy in a profession dedicated to the future of our children.

If you had the chance to follow Christophe Deval's workshop at the EVE seminar, you are already familiar with this challenge: building your professional project at the crossroads of your appetites, your know-how/interpersonal skills and your values. It is an essential key to giving meaning to one's activity, nourishing one's commitment and strengthening one's relational ecology. Here are some tips for finding your alignment.

Every year in October, we mobilize against breast cancer with Pink October. And we continue in November, this time against prostate cancer, with Movember. A month to talk about women's illnesses and then a month to talk about men's illnesses. What is the point of "gendering" the mobilization? We talk about it!

Every year in September, it is the "European Heritage Days". For several years now, the event has been punctuated by discussions on the place of women in heritage and enriched with initiatives to better value those who have contributed to the common heritage... And then in 2015, the "Matrimony Days" appeared, exclusively dedicated to the female part of the legacies of the past.

A face-to-face one, a remote one, here by video from home, the café or the office, there on the phone while the others are sitting around a table or alone in a meeting room with people who have the camera open for some with the cats doing the java in the background, For others, everything is turned off and still others an avatar escaped from the metaverse that wriggles on the screen. It was science fiction 3 years ago, it's our daily life now. But how do you manage your own work and lead exchanges with your teams in this maze of interaction channels? Here are some tips.

If you hear the word "hybrid work", chances are you'll think "semi-face-to-face, semi-remote"... And not long after: "Oh! My god! How complicated it is, these meetings where part of the team is in the room, another on the other end of the line and still others behind a screen (forgetting to put the microphone back on every other time when it is time to speak! ». If hybridization (of work as elsewhere) has never manifested itself as concretely as it does today through the mix of real life/videoconferencing/metaverse and so on, the phenomenon is nothing new. Let's shed light on what hybridization means to ask ourselves the right questions and find the best answers.

Between the challenge of containing the "big quit", the desire of organizations to attract the best talent to their team and new paradigms of engagement, there has never been so much talk about employer branding. But what exactly is this brand?

July 30 is the International Day of Friendship. Well, well, what is "friendship"? We're going to ask our favorite search engine. Immediately, it offers us among the most common queries "friendship woman man impossible" "friendship man woman does it exist?". Come on, the question would still be relevant?

Whew! It's finally the holidays for you. Or the date is fast approaching. It's well deserved... And above all, it is very necessary! Because holidays are a time to recharge the batteries, recharge your batteries, take a step back, open your eyes, find new inspiration and give yourself momentum. But how do you maximize the benefits of your vacation? Come on, we offer you a little gentle self-coaching session.

It's difficult to talk about intelligence without talking about the collective. And for good reason, for Professor Émile Servan-Schreiber, the two are linked: "Today there is no intelligence that is not organized on the basis of a collective...

For a long time, this was called "care", limiting the approach to the medical and paramedical sectors. From now on, with the notion of "care", the field of "solicitude" (commonly accepted translation of "care") extends to any form of relationship that makes individuals responsible for the well-being of others. A real woman's job, that! Irony aside, what is the real place of women in what is at the same time an ethic, an economic sector, a galaxy of professions, an anthology of skills and above all, above all, a challenge for the future?

Having a social life is essential! Numerous studies show that being around others is good for physical and mental health, that it slows down the effects of aging and of course that it contributes greatly to professional development. But social life is also a lot of demands: time to devote to, effort to make, postures to hold... So, how do you make the most of an intense social life, without burning out? A short self-coaching session.

In parallel with the doctrine of universality, another approach is gaining more and more weight in the conversation about diversity: intersectionality. What does this approach offer? What is its history? What criticism does it arouse? How does it translate into reality and inclusion practices? We take stock.

We have often heard Hobbes' phrase: "man is a wolf to man", meaning that threat and war characterize the heart of our humanity. But what about women? Is war only a "man's business"? Are they only destined to be victims of wars without having their names inscribed on monuments? How are women's rights and sustainable peace related? We talk about it!

With the growing expression of the need for meaning, a notion is gaining momentum: anti-utilitarianism. Brandished in turn by defenders of the common good, promoters of equality as a principle of justice, purists of fundamental rights, personal development enthusiasts in search of well-being (or even happiness), economists who challenge models for evaluating performance and the wealth created, philosophers calling for the renewal of complex thinking, Anti-utilitarianism deserves to be defined... And to do this, we must undoubtedly start by defining what utilitarianism is. We take a closer look at the concept(s).

A gloomy context, an anxiety-provoking environment, an uncertain future... There is sometimes reason to be in low spirits. We may know that the positive attracts the positive and that seeing the life of the idiot on the side consumes much less energy than complaining, it's not always easy to get the optimism pump back on track. So, we suggest a little self-coaching session to find the positive.

The UN has been warning for many years that women are the first victims of climate change... And in the process, to call for them to be considered as the first actors of political change in the direction of better preservation of ecosystems and resources.

Inspiring trust in others is a win-win: you will move forward faster with others by making them move forward. But how do you inspire confidence? A few tips to strengthen this essential soft-skill.

If you are a fan of personal development, you have certainly already heard of Ho'Oponopono... If you don't know, we're here to tell you all about this Hawaiian philosophy that promises to make us gain cognitive agility, empathy and optimism.

Television shows promising to distinguish "incredible talent", departments dedicated to "talent management" in companies... There is no doubt that talent is an object of contemporary fascination. But what is talent? The editorial staff of the EVE web magazine has put the concept under the microscope.

It's decided, it's part of your good resolutions and you intend to stick to it: from now on, you will dare to say no! But how to do it? The editorial staff of the EVE webmagazine shares with you tips from experts in assertive negotiation and non-violent communication.

Sexism is in the details... And goes so far as to influence our best intentions and even our good resolutions at the beginning of the year! What if the best resolution we had to make for 2022 is to continue to raise awareness of gender inequalities and to adopt behaviors in all dimensions of our lives that are free from social injunctions?

What is female leadership? The editorial staff of the EVE webmagazine takes stock of a cardinal notion of its action for more than a decade.

It has become a chestnut tree during the holiday season: can you still give a doll to a little girl and a fire truck to a little boy? And what about blue or pink toy boxes? And "girls' departments" that turn their backs on "boys'" departments? And why does the little niece dress up as a princess and the little nephew as a superhero? Is it a real problem, by the way, gendered toys?

They are said to be five in number. They are reputed to hinder our access to a full, complete and fulfilling being-self. Yet, we would all wear at least two. But what are these "wounds of the soul"? How to dress them? And besides, do we absolutely have to fill these cracks or is it rather to become more aware of them, to learn to live with them... By dropping the masks!

Working on being yourself, getting to know yourself better and finding your alignment is good. But this singularity that makes up your authentic personality must still be known, understood and accepted by those around you... So, how can you assert your uniqueness in a healthy and effective way in the professional world?

The term "woke" comes up regularly in debates these days, especially when it comes to equality issues. Often put forward to denounce excesses or dangers, does the term imported from the militant language of the US actually describe a vigilante fanaticism or is it a bogeyman of conservatism? We take stock of the issues at stake in the debate...

Recently, a figure made the headlines in the press specialising in social issues: 47% of employees fear that talking about their mental health at work could harm their career...

The adage is well known in the business world: what cannot be measured does not exist. Therefore, in order to advance professional equality, it is essential to identify by figures what the strategic axes of a policy are. But are we really collecting the right data?

This is not new: women and men are not equal when it comes to digital representation. On the other hand, was such a deterioration of the situation to be expected in recent years?

Put on your chameleon costume and put on your empathetic glasses, let's go for a bodybuilding session of your intelligence of situations in 3 tips...

France became a pioneer in 2011 by adopting the Copé-Zimmermann law establishing quotas on company boards of directors. Ten years later, the Senate has undertaken to take stock of it...

"I'm not able to... ", "No one will want me", "I'm too much..." or not enough... "I would never dare"... So many little phrases that we say to ourselves to explain our difficulties, even our failures or simply the fact that we didn't take the plunge.

In the midst of a boom in personal development, books, podcasts, conferences and webinars that deal with the acceptance and management of emotions are legion. Does this mean that we have all become "hypersensitive"...

With the health crisis, self-employed workers and the most precarious have been particularly vulnerable. But within companies themselves, the shock wave has been strong for managers, heckled by their own uncertainties and those of their employees in the face of the economic crisis, as well as by their redoubled efforts. They had to resist, and react. New working methods have been experimented with. The MEDEF devotes an in-depth analysis to the state of mind of these managers.

What does it really mean to "be committed"? Is this always a good thing? Aren't the battles we fight when we commit ourselves to one or more causes sometimes risk losing us? Conversely, is a person who is not or only slightly involved in his or her professional activity useful to the company and is there not a risk of becoming demotivated? Here is a brief overview of the notion of commitment.

Largely inspired by the practices developed in American universities, the proponents of non-mixity are the subject of strong criticism in France, because the concept opposes two visions of the fight against discrimination and clashes with the principle of equality between individuals, the basis of republican universalism. Whether you are for or against, the subject is tense. Without prejudice, let's take a look at the question...

We hear that women would tolerate pain better than men considered cozier, that they would always be in pain somewhere while men would have an unfortunate tendency to be on the verge of death for a runny nose...

Green washing, happy washing, work washing, social washing, feminism washing, french washing... We've been "washing" more and more lately and by dint of turning, the drum is full! What meaning should we give to this "eco-laundering"? Should you wash greener than white? Changing cycles and laundry? We take stock of all the washing programs...

How many times have we had the feeling of not having listened to the other person well, in our personal lives, by dint of having wanted to interpret too much, to give advice very quickly but in fact, to fall short...

Beyond his individual qualities or skills, a leader without a group to leader is deprived of his strength. Without his armies, Napoleon was just a man with grandiose ambitions! Organizations are as dependent on their leaders as on those who follow them...

Managerial agility has acquired a particular dimension with the health crisis, which, by highlighting the instability and complexity of the modern world, has led to a need for organizations to review their operational, managerial and strategic practices.

We hear more and more about flexwork, and for good reason: the health crisis and its lockdowns, by leading a large number of employees to telework, have accelerated the process of companies thinking about the different working methods. After Twitter, which declared "teleworking for life" possible for some of its employees in May 2020, Facebook and Google followed suit...

The figures from the first Professional Resilience Barometer, provided by the Envie2Resilience association, suggest that French companies and the public service should be more prepared for the post-Covid period. Confronted since the beginning of the crisis with the massification of teleworking and new types of professional vulnerabilities, employees are generally waiting for more answers from organizations.

Quality of life at work was already popular before the health crisis. Yes, but with Covid and the massification of teleworking, QWL has become... QWL (Quality of life in teleworking). To help you see more clearly, here are some tips and tricks that will allow you to boost your QWL in order to better manage the changes brought about by a teleworker status.

What exactly does "pay transparency" mean? Can it really be applied and how? What intimate and identity, societal, cultural, economic and international questions does it refer to? And finally, is it the key to the future of professional equality? We take stock of all these questions.

Come on, let's (re)motivate ourselves! We roll up our sleeves, we gather our strength, we puff out our chests, we stay the course! We'll get there! It's not the first time we've faced difficulties... And fear does not prevent danger. So, there is no reason not to dare. Besides, what do we have to lose, other than an opportunity to be brave, strong, determined, enduring, resilient, valiant...?

The Covid crisis has had a devastating effect on our relationship with work and our quest for meaning.While some dream of fleeing because they are stuck in their two-room apartment in the city, others are exiled outside the big cities...

The impostor syndrome, this unfortunate complex that we drag ourselves to the back of the table and that resurfaces every time we have to assert our legitimacy, exercise our authority, dare to embark on a new project and take up challenges. Come on, let's stop tying our brains for a moment and adopt a few tips to dispel the idea that we're not up to the task!

We have just celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Copé-Zimmermann law requiring a minimum of 40% of representatives of both genders on the boards of directors of large companies. This should be duplicated in the Executive Committees. The editorial staff of the EVE web magazine has identified and analysed the arguments involved in this current debate.

Rather remain silent than risk seeing one's word misunderstood, badly received, misinterpreted and then suffering reprisals. This is the general definition that could be given to self-censorship. The editorial staff of the EVE webmagazine wanted to see a little more clearly!

The movement to free speech, combined with a growing awareness of discrimination, sexist behaviour and harassment, is a real cultural transformation... The dynamic is mostly welcomed as a historic step forward for inclusion. But it is also not without concerns about the future of labour relations, especially between women and men.

In life, we are invited to PO-SI-TI-VER! Look on the bright side, look at the glass half full rather than half empty, turn every difficulty into an opportunity, keep confidence... Is this what we call optimism?

There is more and more talk of "cancel culture", a concept that, in people's minds, mixes denunciation, boycott, illegitimacy trials, witch hunts, and the investigation of the dark pages of history. But does this advance the "cause"? We take stock of the arguments for and against.

For years, companies have been talking (almost) only about "soft skills". A notion that echoes that of "soft power", the art of convincing, influencing, taking positions in a gentle way, without threat or coercion. Inherited from the lexicon of international relations, the notion of "soft power" is now infusing the world of management: would the leader with soft skills be able to exercise a quiet strength?

Inclusion and diversity have become strategic issues for organizations: today, employers and employees are aware of the importance of these two factors for the social and economic performance of a team...

Presenteeism at work: neither good for productivity nor good for the quality of life at work, this annoying obligation to "show up at work" seems to want to resist everything. But where does this presentist culture come from? Why is it so difficult to get rid of it? What are the possible ways for a big change in mindset on engagement at work? We have taken stock for you in this concept under the magnifying glass!

Personal branding is the art of making a statement. By what we are worth, we should not mean "how much can I expect in this or that market?", but "what added value do I have to offer in this or that environment?"

If you are told "active minorities", there is a good chance that you immediately think of the actors of hasthivism who carry the messages of women's rights, LGBTQI+, racialized populations, etc. And you wouldn't be wrong: the "minorities" have made social networks a space for expression and action that makes them more visible. But the dynamic of "active minorities" is not as simple as it seems.

Often perceived as a taboo subject, emotions require good communication with our mind, body and feelings. Today there are several methods to learn to live in peace with your emotions, including the Wheel of Emotions. Let's take a look back at this analysis grid...

Christophe Deval is the author of the book Soft skills – 10 self-coaching sessions to cultivate your talents in the brand new collection of books dedicated to well-being at work launched by Vuibert with MyHappyJob directed by Fabienne Broucaret. Discover 5 good reasons to read the book of our faithful speaker of the EVE program!

"Discovering one's values to reveal one's leadership springs": this was the objective of the latest digital Meet & Learn workshop offered by the EVE, Octave and Noé teams. Coach Fabienne Alamelou, founder of Leaderslab, gave her advice so that participants learn to identify what mobilizes them in their daily lives and what is important to them in order to focus this creative energy in their work.

How can you identify your own achievements and how can they be recognised in the professional field in order to be able to deploy your full potential? The editorial staff of the EVE webmagazine gives you some tips.

This tool has gained a lot of notoriety over the years because of its complexity and its contribution to the social sciences and management. To understand the interest around this theory, let's take a closer look at its variations, applications and controversies...

A recent study by INSEE sheds light on certain points around the effects of parenthood on the careers of women and men and reveals the different impacts of "family responsibilities" according to gender: overall, more unemployment and fewer working hours for them. Here are some key figures from this survey, deciphered by the editorial staff of the EVE web magazine.

80% of 18-30 year olds believe that their generation is less sexist than previous ones. The editorial staff of EVE wemagazine investigated whether young people are indeed more egalitarian than their elders...

Two major issues are on the agenda today: the status of women and the environment. What if these two themes were closely linked? The ecofeminism movement defends this approach, which intertwines the issues of women's empowerment and those of preserving the planet's resources. Find out more in this decryption!

Diversity policies have historically been built around issues related to gender equality and disability. Over the years, other components have been added and are now the subject of reflection and dedicated actions: this is the case of origins, generations and physical appearance. In fact, we think little of another form of diversity: that of our brains. Made more and more accessible thanks to the development of neuroscience, this cognitive diversity is still little understood. The EVE program decided to take the concept to the next level.

They are sometimes nicknamed "empathy neurons" or "Gandhi's neurons", they are attributed to the cause of communicative yawning and the perception of non-verbal language, they reinforce theories on role models and imitative learning methods... They are even considered by some to be the "biological" origin of civilization: they are mirror neurons!

A recent study, conducted by the social innovation third place The Riveter in partnership with the international online polling institute YouGov and the company Xerox, reveals that women feel more hindered because of their age than because of their gender.

In recent years, benevolence has become a strong force in the discourse on the world of work and management. To the point of annoying some who, at best, see it as a meaningless "portmanteau" and at worst, hear a naïve incantation far from the realities of professional life.

Stemming from the lexicon of freedom of expression, and in particular freedom of the press, the notion of self-censorship refers to everything that is forbidden to say or do, without any explicit prohibition being imposed. The term has invested in the reflection and discussion of the professional career and is found as an antiphon in the argument on the causes of the glass ceiling.

We can no longer say anything about women, the disabled (ah! sorry, we have to say people with disabilities), homosexuals (ah! sorry, we have to say LGBTQI+++), the poor, foreigners without risking being accused of being sexist, handiphobic, homophobic, classist, racist etc. All the questions of inclusion (ah! yes, because besides, that's how we say "diversity" now) are thus regularly reduced to "newspeak imbued" with "political correctness"...

From bookstore tables overflowing with self-help books that aim to "boost your self-confidence" to the injunctions to fight your complexes and give yourself the means to achieve your ambitions, self-confidence is a major concern in our time. But what exactly does self-confidence mean? Is it a big deal to lack it? Can we have too much? Does self-confidence have a gender? The editorial staff of the EVE web magazine takes stock.

For a long time, the discourse on diversity encouraged "minorities" to adopt the codes of the majority norm in order to be accepted, to be "assimilated". Then, the approach evolved towards a valuation of differences, considered as a factor of performance... But by moving from the "loss" of non-conformity to its "added value", do we really succeed in inclusion?

A real "trending topic" in the fields of personal development and balanced management, is the concept of anchoring one of the soft skills of tomorrow? Derived from the Latin ancora, which means anchor, anchoring seems to call on managers to "get wet" to guarantee a form of positioning in a moving environment.

Being happy by being good with yourself and by maintaining quality relationships with your environment is the foundation of personal development and positive psychology. It even happens to have a name: eudaemonism. The editorial staff of the EVE webmagazine wanted to know more about this philosophical doctrine that makes happiness a common good.

The EVEsians all had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with positive psychology, in particular through the interventions of the internationally renowned speaker Tal Ben-Shahar.

The personal development market is booming: double-digit growth in sales of "self-help" books; 30% to 40% of companies' training budget dedicated to coaching; exponential multiplication of the offer of advice promising to reverse stress into positive energy, to boost one's self-confidence, (re)find one's balance, reconcile body and mind, reconnect with one's being-self and pacify one's relationships with one's interiority, gain serenity if not wisdom, deploy one's assertiveness and ability to communicate effectively, assume one's true vocations, Maintain your motivation and reveal your hidden resources, be inspired and nurture your creativity, unleash your audacity, love yourself and even find happiness...

We all go through hardships in our lives. Some hurt, leave more or less stinging marks, sometimes scars, can transform our personality or prevent it from giving the best of itself.

For a long time, the discourse on stereotypes (of gender, but also on generations, cultures, etc.) has stumbled over the difficulties, not to say the virtual impossibility (at least in the short term) of changing collective mentalities. And then, research in cognitive science and social psychology has been able to shift the angle of approach: what if the real problem was not stereotypes but the way they influence our decision-making? So, without waiting for the collective imagination to give up assigning narrow attributes to categories of the population, we can already act against decision-making biases.

In August 2018, the right to make mistakes was introduced into French legislation, allowing individuals and companies to "be able to make mistakes in their declarations to the administration without risking a sanction for the first breach". A decision widely commented on in the international press, who saw in it the intention of the French legislator to set an example on this famous "right to make mistakes", which all the literature on the transformation of the economy and society talks about? But what exactly does this concept of the right to make mistakes cover and how can it actually be exercised in the business world? Decryption.

There is more and more talk of sisterhood... But what exactly does this word mean? How has it evolved over the centuries? Why is it coming back today in the discourse on equality between women and men? What would sisterhood engage women in the framework of an ideal of universality that does not know a priori any gender distinction, or any other form of "specificity"? We take stock.

Intelligence, intelligence... Humph... What is intelligence? The first temptation, served by the Latin etymology intellĕgō (to discern, unravel, understand), is to define intelligence as a set of cognitive capacities: learning knowledge, speed of reasoning, conceptualization, anticipation... We would have stopped there if such provisions made it possible to make good decisions for sure. Except that, on the one hand, experience has shown that IQ champions turn out to be particularly stupid in situations (or even make catastrophic decisions); and that, on the other hand, on everything that constitutes this "classical" intelligence, humans are today seriously challenged by artificial intelligence.

Interview with the philosopher Olivia Gazalé, author of The Myth of Virility — A Trap for the Two Sexes (Robert Laffont).

"She has a great job, her teams love her, her children are well behaved, she is always impeccable from the hairline to the shoes; with that, she is a good comrade. Oh yes, and also, she managed to keep the flame alive in her relationship... And you want me to tell you the last straw: she never looks tired. This woman is superwoman! Such are the heroines of modern times... Who still give a few complexes to "normal" women... In the footsteps of the "perfect woman"... Or the perfectionist woman?

Slashers are a modern tribe of workers who work two or three jobs (or even more), navigate in varied and sometimes radically different environments, dare to take the wrong path, practice wide gaps and juggle with cultural codes as much as with professional identities... In the age of agility, are these adaptation pros who seize every opportunity pioneers of the work of the future? Zoom in on the "slashing" trend that is shaking up the lines of the professional world as well as those of our relationship with work.

Do professions have a gender? Does leadership have a gender? Does self-confidence have a gender? Does ambition have a gender? With these not-so-naively asked questions, experts in professional equality underline the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes in collective perceptions of social roles.

Agility is in fashion. All the organizational and managerial literature speaks of nothing but this to describe the company of the future. Leading organizations towards "agile" operating methods is indeed a major objective of transformation processes.

Among the organizational and management methods that bring change in the life of companies and bring new horizons to business, holacracy is the subject of particular attention... But also, a lot of fantasies.

We asked Anne Thevenet-Abitbol, Director of Foresight and New Concepts at Danone and Editorial and Artistic Director of the EVE Program.

In the Madrid metro, a new pictogram is now displayed alongside those asking passengers to give their seats to priority people, to use headphones to listen to music, not to smoke or not to put their feet on the seats: "respeta el espacio de los demás" says the caption of the drawing prohibiting the occupation of more than one seat by a man with legs wide apart. Thus, after New York, Tokyo and Seoul, the Spanish capital intends to fight against "manspreading".

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If there is one word that has been popular in the discourse on diversity in recent years, it is "empowerment". Resistant to translations into languages other than the Anglo-American language that gave rise to it, the notion that places "power" at its heart nevertheless echoes older ideas from philosophical and/or militant currents around the world, such as liberation, emancipation, empowerment, mobilization, participation, etc.

The collective imagination attributes many effects on the functioning of the collective to diversity. It is often said that the participation of women in traditionally male environments would make the atmosphere more listening, more conciliatory, even more peaceful. At the same time, we have the intuition that "girls' atmospheres" would benefit from the presence of men to rationalize relationships and divert attention from female rivalries...

The discourse on the consideration of differences, equal opportunities and the sharing of spaces, opportunities and responsibilities has seen the notion of inclusion become widespread in recent years. Is this a simple substitution of loaded and overused terms such as "mixity" and "diversity(ies)" or a real change of perspective?

You are in a meeting, you master your subject, you have prepared your speech well and you intervene to bring your expertise and contribute to the collective reflection. And there you have it, a colleague cuts you off! You bounce back and try your shot again, bam, he cuts it off you... And the re-re-cut.

Why do we succeed or fail in certain areas? On the surface, there is no need to work for 4 hours on this question, which almost does not seem to be a question as it calls for banal evidence: talent, competence, expertise, experience, but also posture, relevance, method, creativity, common sense, a spirit of solution, leadership are well understood as the keys to "deserved" success...

In a world and in an era that sees human interactions multiply (thanks in particular to the diversification of real and virtual points of contact), diversify (due to new forms of coexistence of cultures, generations, sexes, etc.) and therefore become more complex, what more promising title than that of the latest book by Sylvie Bernard-Curie* and Christophe Deval**: Simplify your relationships with others?

A few days before the 3rd edition of the EVE Asia Pacific seminar, we met with Anne Thévenet-Abitbol, Director of Foresight and New Concepts at Danone, Editorial and Artistic Director of the EVE Program.

4th episode of our series of "best-of" of summer 2016. This week, we offer you a selection of articles published in our section "A concept under the magnifying glass", which aims to equip reflection and discussion on the equality of concepts that we are used to hearing and sometimes using without necessarily knowing their genesis, the richness of the subject and the full extent of the possibilities they offer for a quality debate on diversity.

Equality, parity, equity, "gender diversity", plurality, sharing of responsibilities, gender balance, diversity... The lexicon of the gender issue, which is now on the agenda of all organizations and institutions, has been considerably enriched as the reflection has matured in recent years.

Equality, parity, equity, "gender diversity", plurality, sharing of responsibilities, gender balance, diversity... The lexicon of the gender issue, which is now on the agenda of all organizations and institutions, has been considerably enriched as the reflection has matured in recent years.