Business
Presence is a Leadership System
Leadership presence is built through consistent conversations, difficult moments, and showing up when nothing is urgent but trust is forming.
Sylvain Perrier
President and COO of Mercatus, leading global operations in retail tech. A passionate blogger, he shares insights on tech innovation, leadership, and team culture transformation.
Musings
One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2
What do you do when the myth requires a corpse and you keep showing up to work?
Business
Culture Is the Performance System You Tolerate
Install the rhythm first. Let the behaviour accumulate. Name what you built last.
Business
Headcount Is No Longer the Growth Proxy
Every seat you add before mapping the value stream inherits the flaws of the old system.
Business
Why Most CEOs Are Flying Blind and Don't Know It
A CEO with situational awareness understands the external market, customers, competitors, financial performance, culture, employee morale, execution capacity, and operational risk.
Musings
Antichrist Superstar Predicted Everything We Pretend to Hate
The part we still refuse to see is the machine doesn't need us to believe in anything anymore.
Musings
Why Chronicle Still Matters: The Case for Restraint
This isn't a label-assembled greatest-hits cash grab. It has atmosphere, menace, and intent.
Business
How I Keep My Team Motivated When Technology Changes Everything
I've watched teams lose motivation during tech rollouts more times than I care to admit.
Business
The Executive Inner Circle Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
When executives who aren't in those pre-meetings start to realize what's going on, they do one of three things: they withdraw, they become political, or they start performing.
Business
The Hidden Cost of Flattening Your Organization
Flattening often feels efficient at first, exhausting later. The work of underwriting commitment still exists.
Business
Why Retail CEOs Are Failing the AI Test
A narrative-driven CEO spends Tuesday managing perception upward. An operator spends Tuesday removing friction downward.
Digital Commerce
When Smart Pricing Becomes Predatory Pricing
We are batteries powering a system built for someone else's benefit.