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Boldness: does everyone have an equal chance to dare?

Step back from the myth of boldness and identify the conditions for truly considered risk-taking.

Visuel de la conférence L’audace : est-il permis à tous d’oser à égalité ?

Management

Boldness is a commonplace of management and entrepreneurship, sometimes bordering on myth. “Fortune favours the bold”, “you must take risks to succeed”, “leave your comfort zone”: familiar phrases can sound like demands whose relevance depends on the situation. Does everyone have an equal chance to dare? Does boldness have limits? What conditions enable boldness in working life?

Beyond passing trends, let us step back to understand what boldness means, define its different meanings and explore where it applies in organisations.

Part 1 · Building a mythology of boldness

  • False beliefs about boldness
  • What the myth says about society and individual blame
  • Should we really leap into the unknown?

Part 2 · A philosophy of boldness

  • Sapere aude: bringing boldness and thought together
  • A philosophical framework for boldness

Part 3 · Towards considered boldness

  • Individual conditions
  • Organisational conditions
  • A tool for considered risk-takers

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