Jean-François Manzoni (born 1961, Paris, France) is a French and Canadian academic and the President (Dean) and Nestlé Chaired Professor of IMD (the International Institute for Management Development), an independent business school with a main campus located in Lausanne, Switzerland and an executive learning center in Singapore.
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Early life
Manzoni was born in Paris, France on May 15, 1961. He immigrated to Canada in 1978. He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1981 from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal and he earned an MBA in 1986 from McGill University in Montreal. In 1993 he graduated with a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston.
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Career
Manzoni assumed the role of president of IMD business school on 1 January 2017 after teaching 5 years on INSEAD business school's Singapore campus (2011-2016) during which he directed the school's Global Leadership Centre. Previously he spent 12 years on INSEAD'S Fontainebleau campus in France (1992-2004) during which he founded and directed the PwC Research Initiative on High Performance Organizations. He also spent seven years at the IMD business school (2004-2010), where he served as Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development and directed IMD's Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives.
Manzoni has co-authored several books and over 30 business case studies on how leaders can create a high performance work environment reshaping management culture and unlearning bad practice. Four of his case studies were recognised in the Case of the Year Awards by the European Foundation for Management Development and the European Case centre.
Professor Manzoni has also written several articles in the Harvard Business Review and Financial Times, but he is most known for the book, The Set-Up to Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail which he co authored with Jean-Louis Barsoux. The book expands on an similarly themed article in The Harvard Business Review in which the authors explored how managers' behavior might contribute to employees poor performance. In an interview with BBC Manzoni explained how employees also contribute to their own unsatisfactory relationships with their superiors. Manzoni cautioned that attaching labels like demanding or overbearing can ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy. "The moment you label someone as difficult you've just made them more difficult to work with because you're not going to give this person the benefit of the doubt anymore and you're not going to relate with them on a productive level."
A sought after keynote speaker on leadership challenges and change management, Manzoni was invited to speak at the 2014 and 2016 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos. Manzoni is a member of the Human Capital Leadership Institute's International Advisory Panel..
Personal life
Manzoni currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland where he moved from Singapore in 2016 to join IMD as a Professor of Leadership & Organisational Development.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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