That's it! We breathe a bit… Bars and restaurants are open, Bermuda shorts stroll on sidewalks and sunglasses spread the images of Epinal… Summer, the real, the normal, is back. Well, let's take advantage of it!

Ah yes… there is still this variant which annoys us… It is true, it bothers us a lot. So let's get vaccinated! But some don't want to. Why? Because: “we do not touch the integrity of the body”. Because: “we do not have hindsight on this type of vaccine”. Sometimes we have nothing against the vaccine, but we are against its potential compulsory nature. In short, we are against!

And, in our profession? There is no risk of human death in this profession, you will tell me. Of course, but we can compare our profession to this vaccine business.

We are here to promote and disseminate innovation. The role of "ferryman" is major among consultants. We are accelerators of progress. A new method, a new offer in such and such solution… The novelty is a subject of celebration.

As for Akeance teams, they systematically wish to be confront to what is not their comfort zone, to rub shoulders with novelty, to put their brain in the face of the risk of the unknown.

You could say that Akeance consultants make the imbalance of their professional life compulsory, by moving from mission to mission, from head of mission to head of mission, from client to client… The danger does not exist. Everyone is looking for growth through the diversity of experiences.

In short: nothing in common with our vaccine business! But many opposite similarities ... And we could say that, at Akeance, the whole team is vaccinated against monotony...

In the meantime, nice summer!

Not the book! Not the movie either! Not even the rise in real estate prices in this medieval village of Cortona, the location of the film's plot... I want to talk more generally about all these cities and countryside that we visit on vacation and I wondered why we like holidays...

Certainly, because we all need to rest, to breathe a fresh air, to talk about something else than work. But there is another refined pleasure, discreet and strong at the same time.

We are impressed by the giant and so regular stacking of the bricks of Urbino (okay, it is not in Tuscany but in the Marche). We are impressed by the tenacity to continue the building of this or that "duomo" for more than a century. We are impressed as much by the quantity as by the precision of a Signorelli or a Martini...

And at the end of the afternoon, an aperitif in front of the vineyards and olive trees, dotted with cypresses... Here again, the landscape impresses. In many parts of the world, nature itself impresses (the Rhine Falls in Switzerland, like the Bromo in Indonesia). But here, it is the work of man on the landscape which impresses. It is as much the rigor of the plantations as the overall beauty that makes us feel good. But I leave it to François Cheng to explain beauty.

As for the dinner, at night in these nice Italian hotels, everything is beautiful and good; everything is straightly organized.

So I tell myself that I spent good holidays. But why? Well, because, in the three illustrations mentioned, the common point is the major place of quality requirement. Requirement in techniques, requirement in services, requirement in beauty. What is good about a vacation is that we are immersed in a world of high standards, which brings everything close to a certain perfection, or at least to a certain completion.

So let's continue this adventure of requirement, here in Paris, at Akeance. We already know that requirement is unconfined! Let's set our standards high so that everyone, consultants and clients alike, can enjoy the pleasure of having done a good and beautiful job!