The professional playbook nobody writes down

Stop being busy.
Start being powerful.

26 field-tested rules for engineers and technical leaders who are ready to work smarter, lead better, and live more — without working more.

Lift Yourself — Protect your energy and lead from a position of strength, not depletion

Lift Your Methods — Prioritize ruthlessly, delegate effectively, and deliver what actually matters

Lift Your Relations — Lead through influence, manage upward, and build trust that lasts

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Rule #13
Prioritize Means Give Up
When you add a priority without removing another, you haven't prioritized. You've just added pressure to a system that's already at capacity.
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Unwritten rules
25
Years field-tested
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Countries validated
Strategic transparency

What we share. What we save for the room.

The book gives you the map. The training puts you in the terrain. Here's the difference — deliberately designed.

What you discover in the book

The name and principle of all 26 rules

Real stories from 25 years in the field

The 3-pillar framework and how it connects

One concrete action per rule

The logic behind each behavioral shift

What lives in the training

The felt experience of applying each rule under pressure

Live diagnostic of your specific gap profile

Real-time feedback from peers on your actual challenges

The rule combinations that unlock your specific bottleneck

A public commitment you make — and are held to

The LIFT Framework

An integrated system — not a checklist

Most professionals try to fix their challenges in isolation: time management here, stress there, relationships somewhere else. They are not isolated. They are a system.

Pillar 01

Lift Yourself

Mindset, energy, identity. The foundation. You cannot optimize a system whose power plant is running at 30%.

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Pillar 02

Lift Your Methods

Prioritization, execution, communication. The tools. Having the right strategy means nothing if your operating system is broken.

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Pillar 03

Lift Your Relations

Influence, delegation, trust. The multiplier. Your impact is always limited by the quality of the relationships through which it travels.

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Think of your career as a refinery. Technical knowledge is the raw material. The LIFT rules are the processing system — the infrastructure that determines how much value you extract from what you already have. Most professionals run their careers on 40% processing efficiency. LIFT gets you to 80.

A taste of the 26 rules

Five rules. Enough to make you want all twenty-six.

Each rule is a lever. Each lever changes something specific and measurable. Here are five.

Rule #2 Free preview

Keep Your Mindset in the Green Zone

The problem it solves

Under pressure, most professionals operate in the Red Zone — blame, justification, resignation — without realizing it. They mistake reaction for action. And the situation never improves.

When was the last time you made a genuinely good decision from a position of stress and frustration?
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Finish Your Actions

The problem it solves

Most professionals are excellent at starting. They launch projects, open files, initiate conversations. Very few are systematic about closing. An open file is a liability. A closed project is an asset.

If someone asked you right now to list five things you have fully completed this month — could you answer without hesitation?
Rule #11 Free preview

Conclusion Comes First

The problem it solves

Engineers are trained to show their work. In meetings and presentations, this habit destroys credibility. Decision-makers do not want to watch you prove your effort. They want your answer — in the first thirty seconds.

In your last presentation, when did the conclusion appear — on slide 2 or slide 18?
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Use the Right Power

The problem it solves

Authority produces compliance. Influence produces commitment. The best managers I have seen did not need to invoke their title to get exceptional work from their teams. They earned something that rank cannot buy.

If your title disappeared tomorrow, would your team still follow your direction?
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Act Like the One You Want to Be

The problem it solves

Most professionals wait for the promotion before changing their behavior. But the promotion arrives because of the behavior — not before it. Jean-Marc's promotion was never a surprise to anyone in the room.

How does the leader you want to be in three years behave daily? Are you behaving that way now?
+ 21 more rules

Each one as specific, as tested, and as immediately applicable as these five.

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The Book

Be Successful and Happy at Work

Without working more.

25 years of international engineering leadership — across France, the USA, Venezuela, and Belgium — distilled into 26 simple, actionable rules.

This is not a management theory. It is a field guide. Written for engineers and technical professionals who are ready to work smarter, lead better, and reclaim their lives — without working more.

"The rules you were never taught in school — but wished someone had told you on day one."

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For managers & organizations

Your best technical talent is not the problem. The operating system is.

They are capable. Often excellent. But nobody trained them to prioritize under pressure, lead without authority, or communicate in a way that drives decisions. The result is predictable — and expensive.

Managers who execute instead of lead — doing two levels below their role

Teams that say yes to everything — and deliver nothing well

Meetings that fill the week without producing decisions

High performers who quietly disengage — and eventually leave

+5h
Recovered per person per week through prioritization discipline alone
Day 1
Observable behavioral change — participants apply rules before the week ends
90 days
Full transformation cycle with structured action plan and accountability
The LIFT Training Program

Reading creates awareness. Training creates capability.

The book gets you to Level 1: you understand the rules. The training gets you to Level 3: you apply them automatically, under pressure, when it costs something.

Keynote

LIFT Talk

45 – 90 min

3 rules. One story. One commitment. Designed to create the gap between where participants are and where they want to be — in under an hour.

Most popular
Workshop

Work Smarter

½ day · 8–14 people

5 rules. 3 exercises using real current work situations. Every participant leaves with one action, one date, and one public commitment. No slides required.

Full program

Engineer to Leader

1 day · 8–12 people

All 3 pillars. Real-world scenarios. A personal 90-day action plan. For high-potentials and managers in transition who are ready to change posture, not just behavior.

Also available: LIFT Executive (custom multi-month program)  ·  LIFT Residential (3-day immersive)

Before LIFT
The inbox drives the day. The agenda belongs to everyone else.
15-item priority lists that everyone knows are fiction.
Presenting methodology before the conclusion. Decision-makers tune out.
Managing through authority. Compliance is the ceiling.
Waiting for the promotion before leading like the next level.
After LIFT
The agenda is owned. Strategic work is protected by design.
Three real priorities, defended with confidence and specific trade-offs.
Conclusion first. Always. The room knows where you stand in thirty seconds.
Leading through influence. Commitment becomes the floor.
Already operating at the next level — before the title arrives.

The transformation is not theoretical. It is observed — by managers, peers, and the participants themselves.

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For professionals

Start with the book.

26 rules. Real stories. One action per rule. Everything you need to identify your gap and start closing it — this week.

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For organizations

Deploy it in your team.

One half-day. One cohort of 10. Measurable behavioral change on day one. No procurement maze — a clear answer by Friday.

Pre-session self-assessment

Discover your professional habits profile

44 situational questions. No right or wrong answers. A personal radar across all 26 LIFT dimensions — sent directly to you at the end.

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Situations
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Minutes
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Areas mapped
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Score scale
Your results are personal and shared only with the session facilitator.

Your Professional Habits Profile

These scores reflect your self-reported patterns. Use them as a starting point — not a verdict.