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Joël de Rosnay: "Surfing is a management school"

2020-08-03T12:01:30.002Z


INTERVIEW - At 83 years old, the scientist and prospectivist publishes a small book on surfing and its benefits. A sport that he was one of the first French to practice.


Surf the internet, surf the polls, surf the difficulties ... The number of expressions that use the word surfing gives an idea of the popularity of this sport even slips it is not given to all to practice it. It requires concentration, consistency and balance while riding more or less high and powerful waves. The scientist, lecturer and prospectivist Joël de Rosnay - sometimes nicknamed the " king of snow sports " publishes a Petit Praise du surf (François Bourin editions, 127 p., € 12). A suitable reading for the summer, which echoes another of his works, Surfer la vie published in 2012.

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He explains to Le Figaro to what extent this sport, which he was among the first to practice in France at the start of the 1950s, is a real school of personal development, leadership and management. “To understand a business, you have to think of it as if it were an ocean,” he writes. Each wave represents a sector of this company that must be able to

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Source: lefigaro

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