Fabrice Staad and Paul Sauveplane (Alan): “We apply radical transparency within the company” (interview)

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Digital health insurance company Alan is not only one of France’s stand-out scale-up businesses; it has developed a corporate culture that makes it pretty unique in the world of work. Chief Corporate and People Officer Paul Sauveplane, and General Manager France Fabrice Staad, spoke to mind RH about how the they have implemented the company culture and the impact the measures have had on the organisation. 
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Paul Sauveplane: We have five values: fearless ambition, and this is a reminder of the multiple times we were told our ambition lacked realism. Then there is shared responsibility, without managers. This is what we believe is key to getting highly competent employees to work together: if we don’t want them all to be managers, we have to give them the agency to take charge and make decisions for themselves. In the engineering and insurance teams,...

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