For cause the cindynique thinking is emerging in FranceThe tax valuation would be observed in 2008Let's start with that of the European UnionIt is false rebelled leader of Hermitage Emin IskenderovIn times of financial turmoil there is no shelterThe market decided in favour of economiesBut Xavier Huillard group is a debt of 15However its Comex division decreased by 17It needed to realize a capital gain of 88At their turn the Switzerland the Luxembourg and the Austria surrendered Friday to the pressures that were correct on the eve of Andorra the Liechtenstein and the Belgium read the Echos from March 13Last year, the financial officer of Deutsche Bank, number one banking German, hit hard. It has been headed by Stefan Krause, Chief Financial Officer of... BMW. This pure product House of the automaker it is climbed one by one all the levels, in Germany as abroad the it embodies a new generation of leaders today. A still unthinkable case in France.
"We can imagine, in France, the most prestigious Bank to seek a financial Director in the automotive industry", confirms Didier Vuchot, President Europe of Korn Ferry International. In France, the automotive sector is not considered "sufficiently prestigious". Above all, the very elitist hexagonal banks cherish, for their leadership positions, profiles major schools (enarques and Polytechnique in particular) or "revolving doors" of the old departmental offices. And are there for the moment.
"But the idea that an Inspector of finance can all be lived", says Alain delivery, Chairman of the cabinet of hunting heads Progress, which, for its part, has experience within the large body of State and executive positions in public and private sectors. "These French middle-aged who continue to talk with any juvenile pride of graduation from the Ena, X or HEC will never cease to amaze us", said a very elitist couple "Oxbridge" (one being a graduate of Oxford, another Cambridge). The note, launched false air of nothing, said another major cultural difference: in Britain, self contentment speaks discrete and non-ostentatious, while it is claimed and claironnant in France. More seriously, in France, management positions remain the prerogative of the "great schools" graduates, not necessarily in Britain. Or in Germany where decentralization requires roughly, all schools are worth.
Pragmatism is gaining ground
However, times are changing the equation. The objective is to find cost the most suitable profiles, regardless of where they are located. Result: the imperatives of globalization and economic competition sponsor a movement towards more harmonisation. And, little by little, pragmatism originally, the preserve of the British won all of the land.
In France, after the recruitment in the number of professionals from the world of the consumer by the sector of luxury goods, are beginning to initiate, in the regulated sectors, telecoms to energy transfer. "It will also have to understand that competent leaders in growth phase have more necessarily adequate profile in difficult times," says Alain Prestat. Better, more and more leaders will have to display a task not only national experience but also abroad, and preferably in an emerging country. They must also, at the same time, make first commercial of the company, well communicate with staff, shareholders and financial markets, and let appear a sufficiently charismatic and compelling personality. All qualities as the most prestigious diplomas and professional routes the most classic do not develop necessarily.
It nevertheless remains that, for the time being, in France, literacy and alliances and relations remains valuable. "The jurisdiction test is still too often automatically together with not only the detention of a prestigious diploma our schools, let us recall, deliver excellent formations but also amount of other more or less formal connections: John Doe who was in"mole"to Louis-le-Grand or Henri IV with such other, X belonging to this club, brotherhood or association, etc.", confirms a familiar of the French business community. An antiphon certainly archi-connue but which, on a background of crisis and increased competition, emphasizes practices that are less and less consistent with imperatives of economic efficiency. "Some do, for example, mine to the candidates in competition...". "But without fine knowledge of the establishment Paris, or even national, no need to look for logic in the composition of a Steering Committee or certain appointments", prevents the same witness. Even the public sphere does not escape this type wrong, according to Pascal Lamy. "Britain is by far the best senior public service in Europe," explained the Director General of the WTO last week in the magazine "Challenges". Revel, the procedure is indeed that the vacancies in the public service are displayed in Whitehall. The candidates who wrote their letter of motivation and describes their project then passes before a jury of senior officials, representatives of users, consumers and/or experts. With the objective to recruit the best profile for a position given. In France, where the practice of the competition is still widespread, it regrets that a certain opacity is still appropriate. Governance, in however notable progress, is still beautiful days in perspective.
