« Start with a Difference » (June 2006, Jerome Adam & Patrick Blanchet editions DFR)
Favorite Prize Advancia-CCIP book Entrepreneurship 2007
Acceptance of self to the importance of distinguishing happiness and pleasure, through the decision-making, intuition, enthusiasm … The book « Start with a Difference » reflects the values that enabled me to overcome my disability and enterprise. This testimony offers some benchmarks for the daily and the many anecdotes allow everyone to recognize it. A book is like a book of personal development, judging by readers’ opinions.
« Entrepreneurship it is tackling a situation, try to win, act and implement a project. Far from being limited to the creation of companies undertaking is a way of being, a true culture. It is being involved, take risks and believe in the future. »
Authors
« Far from waffling, in a four hands work with Patrick Blanchet, Jérôme Adam takes us on his journey of a man, blind, and entrepreneur at 23. A journey of pain and joy, a journey of mistakes and successes. A journey that invites us to dare. Renaud Dutreil, Minister for SMEs, and Christophe Chenut, general manager of the group ” Team ” does not make a mistake by offering, respectively, the foreword and the afterword of this testimony puts the finger where it goes wrong . ».
The editor
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Echoes of the media:
- « A book that is almost like a manual of happiness » (Regard sur le numérique)
- « A breath of fresh air » (book fair of entrepreneurship 2008)
- « Manual of the conquerors » (Le Parisien)
- « A jewel of managerial dynamism » (L’expansion)
- « This little opus should be reimbursed by Social Security, as it would be more effective to treat France as well tranquilizers » (L’entreprise)
- « very interesting book, full of hope and action. » (Blog lectovore.blogspot.com)
- « Invitation to read the book by Jerome, a contractor not totally like the others » (Weblog Pascal Mercier Fundraising, Venture Capital, M & A …)
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Evidence in other books
« Diversify your recruitment » (Geraldine Coughlan, March 2009, L’Express)
Many companies are working on the issue without really knowing how. Facing the fear of the police and the shortage how to recruit an audience naturally discriminated against: women, disabled, public suburban, black, Arab, senior … Given the complexity, large firms pole mount diversity recruiters: How do I talk about? Recruit people, their loyalty: implications on training and management. Analysis of the recruitment process … This guide gives the floor to experts as diverse as recruitment firms specializing diversity, La Halde, diversity managers of large companies, a social observer and economic such as La Face (foundation act against exclusion) IMS (take to the city) or MEDEF …
“Success” (June 2008 editions of Le Parisien)
The book ” Success “, published with the assistance of Vedior, portray 16 people whose paths illustrate the book’s subtitle: ” When work and enthusiasm raised the mountains ” Of the 16 portraits: François-Xavier Demaison (actor successful, former tax lawyer in New York), Karim Oumnia (creator of the company Balliston, sports shoes super lightweight), Alain Baraton Curator of the Estate of Versailles and Trianon, a columnist on France Inter), Orianne Garcia (co-founder of caramail.fr), Eric Judor (actor of the duo Eric and Ramzy), Mercedes Erra (Euro RSCG), Aziz Seniya (Ata France and Business Angels in the Cities), etc. …
Read chapter 9 which is devoted to me (in French)
« Those who commit » (Jérôme Cordelier, October 2007, the Academic Bookstore Perrin)
They are teachers, doctors, social educators, priests, or mothers. But they are also officers of large companies, financiers, musicians at the Opera and even… professional swimmer. They live in ” ghetto-cited ” or in beautiful neighborhoods in the heart of Paris, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Normandy, or the mining area of the Vosges forest, all have committed ” a fight to the human to human “, according to their own terms. Some have chosen to exercise their profession in the first line on the social front. Others to invest outside of their profession. Some have even given up a prestigious position, a promising career, a whopping salary.
To fight against social and economic blockades, which the State can not solve alone, they invent new modes of action in solidarity, more pragmatic, more professional. These men and women lead a revolution: that of commitment.
« The resurrected » (Christine and Eric Meyer Kerdel, October 2004, Flammarion)
It does not happen only to others … Who has not lived for himself or for a loved one, an accident, serious illness, an unexpected physical blow, coming change the course of its existence? Overnight, everything changed. Yet, faced with the ordeal, some sink, and others emerge stronger than before. Why? The role of medicine is important, but it does not explain everything. What forces are mobilized to overcome the shock of those who were near death? Developed from experiences and interviews with doctors, psychotherapists and theologians, this book examines all the factors – environment, temperament, love, personal roots, religion, the fact to have a purpose in life … – that promote a “resurrection”. It also describes the new look that we carry on life when we almost quit. Very rich, very informative, a strong book and a message of hope. With the testimony of Lance Armstrong, Mireille Darc, Jean-Francois Deniau, Guy Roux, Hermann Maier, Patrick Segal, Philip Vigand, Marie Dubois, Jean-Marc Pilpulism, Jean-Pierre Bely, Philippe Labro …