Bastien Jakobiak
R.S.E Approach: Robust, Systemic, and Committed.
Hello, I am a robustness speaker and a member of the collective larobustesse.org. This community, articulated with and around Olivier Hamant, has chosen to: • Engage in a collective approach of action-research-actions, • Sincerely share its content under a free license (at least CC BY-SA 4.0) • And rely on a territorial approach to robustness in service of common health. To this end, we have designed a Living Conference that covers the essentials of Robustness. Olivier Hamant is a biologist, plant specialist, and research director at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), an entity of ENS Lyon. He published in 2023 Antidote to the Cult of Performance: The Robustness of the Living (Galimard), where he observes that performance is an omnipresent objective in human action, in contrast to the living, which primarily relies on robustness, especially in a fluctuating environment. His main thesis is that the pursuit of performance leads us to a dead end, and that we must aim for robustness at all levels, a salutary path that is also a way to reconcile with nature to live in a fluctuating world.
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From Performance to Resilience: What Compass in a Fluctuating World?
In a fluctuating and rapidly changing world, the quest for performance has reached its limits. Optimization, control, and standardization are no longer sufficient to guarantee the resilience of our organizations. What if the true key to adaptation lies elsewhere? Rather than seeking maximum efficiency, how can we build structures capable of absorbing shocks, learning from the unexpected, and evolving in uncertainty? To explore this essential question, let’s look at the living world as a whole, where robustness arises from diversity, cooperation, and flexibility rather than control and ultra-performance. Drawing inspiration from biological principles, we aim to imagine more adaptive organizations capable of facing ecological and societal challenges. How can we rethink our governance models? How can we evolve our management practices? What levers can we activate to promote resilience? This conference is an opportunity to exchange ideas and question our models in light of the dynamics of living systems. An invitation to rethink our organizations and managerial postures to better face the ongoing transitions. This lively conference is interactive, educational, and low-tech. It is modular and adapts to all types of audiences. Created under Creative Commons license: CC BY-SA 4.0