André Yché
Conference and roundtable moderator in a relatively broad thematic field, including real estate, geopolitical and defense issues, and capable of mobilizing in-depth historical knowledge
Essayist, former founder of CDC Habitat, General Controller of the Armed Forces (R) IEP (graduate), IAE, Bachelor's degrees in Law and Public Administration, Aeronautical Engineer from the Air School and the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs President of Yché Conseil CEO then Chairman of the Management Board of CDC Habitat (1999-2023); Deputy Director of the civil and military office of the Minister of Defense (1997-1999); Secretary General for Regional Affairs of Aquitaine; Delegate for restructuring at the Ministry of Defense; military pilot Awarded the Aeronautics and Overseas Medal, holder of the Combatant's Cross and the Military Valor Cross, Officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the National Order of Merit Author of numerous works including Commerce and War, The Two Faces of Janus (2019), for which he received the Edgar Faure Prize for committed work in 2019; On Democracy in the West (January 2021), On the Nation (2023). Two other works in finalization on leadership and the United States at the MAGA time
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CREATION OF CRISES: THE EXAMPLE OF THE REAL ESTATE ECONOMY
Introduction: ideology, incompetence, short-termism, lack of coordination of public policies 1. Fundamental choices: prioritizing the "engine" of consumption, financed by redistribution; the deepening of sovereign debt financed by monetary creation. Consequence: inflation of the nominal value of assets, decoupled from their economic productivity and the purchasing power of households. 2. Budgetary policy, the main tool for compensating the decline in productivity and purchasing power and the insufficient profitability of investments. Subsidy, instead of value creation. 3. Accommodative monetary policy and lax budgetary policy are therefore closely correlated, outside of any conjunctural context; they have become "a-cyclical". 4. General ignorance of the levers of the real estate economy: - The economic cycle of urban renewal: destruction of value, land reallocation, densification, recreation of value (Cf. Haussmann, post-1945 Reconstruction, New Towns...) - The role of the time variable in intermediate housing, versus the Promethean ambition of social housing; - Boundary effects: conventioning, deconventioning... - Territorial effects: metropolises versus "relaxed" areas 5. Tax incentives for the "status quo" versus tax incentives for performance: obsolete economic assets; "dormant" buildable land. 6. Pro-cyclical public policies: - Rent control and the scarcity of rental supply; - Successive priorities of energy choices for collective heating; rules for supporting renovation... - The application of standards over time in the context of reconditioning operations; - The absence of a global vision of the sector and management in "organ pipes"; - The absence of territorial differentiation of standards; example: land sobriety; - The difficulties of "common sense": accessibility standards for the housing of police officers.
Geopolitical and Defense Issues of the Current World
1. Potential threats: - Russia: the issue of the Baltic/Black Sea corridor or the near abroad: Central Asia and the Caucasus - China: the South China Sea and Taiwan - The reality of power dynamics 2. American strategy - The Monroe Doctrine, imperialism, and the "manifest destiny" of the "indispensable Nation"; two world wars for the price of one - The choice of maritime power: Mahan, MacKinder, control of the Rimland. Nicolas Spykman and the Arcadia Conference (1941) - "Massive retaliations", "Flexible response", "Air – Land Battle" and the fallout of the "Star Wars" on the conventional battlefield - Consequences of ideological wars (Civil War), public opinion, communication 3. France's defense policy - After Waterloo and the Restorations, up to the Second Empire: external adventurism - After 1870 and the organizational laws of 1882: national territory / national service / industrial independence / national deterrence - After 1991 and "Armées 2000": distancing from national territory and OPEX; the ambiguities of deterrence: from tactical to pre-strategic, the closure of Albion, "vital interests" 4. The insurmountable blockages of European Defense - The industrial and research base and acquisition policies in Europe - NATO and the guarantee of Article 5 of the Atlantic Alliance / The ghost of the CED - The cordial agreement until the Saint-Malo declaration (versus the Élysée treaty) 5. The strategic issues of the programming law - The Gaullist vision of the threat: the geopolitical foundations of strategic autonomy - The question of exports versus cooperation - The priorities resulting from the sizing of the defense tool: Aircraft carriers or SNA? - What future for National Service / for reserves?
Leadership - A leader is a merchant of hope, to govern is to make believe
1. Leadership is a difficult concept to define, untranslatable into French. It is a way of being and acting that is both a method and an art, exercised in the vast field of social activities, that is to say collective: administrations, businesses, associations, armies... It is distinguished from the implementation of objectively measurable standardization procedures: management, administration; but also from influence, prescription. 2. Leadership is primarily a matter of personality: a part of innate (20%), much acquired through practice and work (80%). Two examples: Churchill / De Gaulle. 3. Leadership is also a matter of project, which implies a vision of the role to be played, the environment, the goal to be achieved: - A personal experience: the transformation of SNI into CDC Habitat. - Historical examples: Alexander the Great, Paul of Tarsus. 4. Leadership also involves a narrative, either written by the leader (the memoirs of De Gaulle, Churchill), or by memorialists (Las Cases in Saint Helena). Myself (the "bulletins of the Grande Armée"...) through a monthly letter to the staff... 5. Leadership requires a decision-making spirit: - My experience: in 2008, in 2012, in 2020, I was asked to implement a recovery plan... - In History, the coups d'état of 18 Brumaire, December 2, 1851... 6. Leadership and critical spirit, a source of innovation (Cf. Schumpeter): - My experience: the invention of intermediate housing... - Traditional practices, dominant opinion: Tocqueville and the "Regency of Albany" in Democracy in America. - The risks of manipulating opinion: Shakespeare in "Julius Caesar." 7. Other questions can be addressed depending on the audience's interest: - Is leadership a matter of family tradition: the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers... - Can private leadership ignore state intervention? - What is the weight of national cultures (e.g., Russia, USA)? - Leadership internationally. - Is there a "school" of military leadership? A definition of a leader: "A leader is a merchant of hope, to govern is to make believe." Napoleon Bonaparte