The presentation’s tips and tricks were structured around the following areas:

• Working harder
• Resisting stress
• A better office
• A better time management
• Targeted personal finance
• Set your objective
• Set your leadership
• Set your team
• The small business cockpit

Patrick M. Georges is a professor in management, an active neurosurgeon and an expert consultant to managers. He advises and teaches managers worldwide on how to improve effectivity at personal, team and business levels. He invented the Management Cockpit, a war room used  by worldwide business managers now included in the SAP software.

You can download Patrick Georges’ presentation slides by clicking on this link: How to amplify your intelligence: Tips and tricks from brain surgeons to entrepreneurs .

This presentation was possible thanks to the MBA Solvay sponsorship of the Beta Group. Beyond the financial help to a great entrepreneurial initiative in Brussels, we try to bring a short  by one of our instructors or coaches that is relevant and useful to the audience.

Our prior presenter and first of MBA Solvay was Pascal Ledouble, who made a presentation about how to sell yourself doing short pitches and to cause a good first impression. Pascal is one of the professional coaches working with MBA Solvay students to help them develop their interpersonal skills, under the direction of Kay Lombardo and Bob Ward.

The Beta Group is a networking initiative promoted by Jean Derely, where local start-ups showcase their products for five minutes and then are exposed to a few questions from the audience. The Beta Group is the best and more popular Internet business networking event in Belgium. Among its participants you can meet investors, entrepreneurs and professionals open to discuss the business and new projects.

You can see the videos of the presentations done by the start-ups in the site of the RTBF Labs, who transmitted the event live for the first time.

Xavier has built on his experience as an IT engineer and on the financial skills he acquired during his MBA to create a company directed mainly to SME that manage sensitive information and are currently running their business without properly protecting their client’s information and their own risk in case of a leak, which may have fatal Profit & Loss implications.

But Xavier, who graduated in 2007, not only talks about finance as one of the key learnings from the MBA. He also reminds us of the importance of other subjects needed to manage a company, ranging from marketing to people management.

One of his main pieces of advice is to focus on sales to the multiple stakeholders: partners, investors, employees, clients… Sales is the constant that will help you successfully develop your business.

This video interview is part of the series that alumnus Sebastien Schelenz has contributed to MBA Solvay. Thank you Sebastien for doing such a great job!