{"id":2049,"date":"2018-12-12T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeromeadam.com\/mon-talk-sur-la-performance-devant-les-managers-d-abbvie\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:58:40","slug":"my-presentation-on-performance-to-the-managers-of-abbvie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeromeadam.com\/en\/my-presentation-on-performance-to-the-managers-of-abbvie\/","title":{"rendered":"My Presentation on Performance to the Managers of AbbVie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Brightness agency, a TEDxParis partner, asked me to participate in a conference on performance with two other speakers who have already appeared on the TEDxParis stage: Yves-Marie le Bourdonnec (French pioneer of aged meat and head of six butcher shops among the ten best in the world) and Hugo Mercier (co-founder and CEO of the neurotechnology enterprise Rythm, whose pioneering product, Dreem, is designed to improve sleep).<\/p>\n

We gathered at the Maison de la Chimie<\/i> (seventh district of Paris) where we each presented (in less than 15 minutes) our vision of performance to managers of AbbVie, a biopharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n

I based my talk on my climb up Mt. Ventoux on tandem bicycle with Guillaume Buffet, and the companies I\u2019ve established. I addressed the issue of missing supplies on the climb up Ventoux (the loss of Guillaume\u2019s energy drink) and sought an answer to the following question: Why, when faced with such an obstacle, would the experienced cyclist get frustrated and the novice stay calm? In other words, why would the expert perform worse than the novice at that moment?<\/p>\n

My talk addressed the following issues:<\/p>\n