The TV series

TEAM TOTEM, on video

Experience the book another way: see the characters, hear the silences, and follow the ritual week after week. Three acts, twenty episodes of about five minutes each. In French.

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Act I · onlineAct II · coming soonAct III · to come
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Act I · The exhaustion that opens his eyes

5 episodes · online · click to play
  • 5 min
    Act I · Episode 1

    1 · One day too many

    Marc holds on, absorbs it, absorbs it again, until the day exhaustion stops being a symptom and becomes a signal.

  • 5 min
    Act I · Episode 2

    2 · False leads

    A book closed, a podcast, a dashboard imported from London. You don't repair a relationship with a tool.

  • 5 min
    Act I · Episode 3

    3 · The wake-up call

    Karim resigns. His real reason does what no dashboard had done: “because you never called me back.”

  • 5 min
    Act I · Episode 4

    4 · The decision

    Forty-five minutes a week, sacred. Marc writes the sentence that changes everything, and commits to keeping it.

  • 5 min
    Act I · Episode 5

    5 · The one-on-ones

    Seven one-on-ones, seven words on a sheet of paper. Without knowing it, Marc already has his first TOTEM.

Marc holds on, then can't anymore. A resignation opens his eyes, and he writes the sentence that changes everything. Without knowing it, Marc already has his first TOTEM.

Act II · Inventing the TOTEM

10 episodes · coming soon
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    Act II · Episode 6

    6 · Team life

    Dial 1 · start with the people.

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    Act II · Episode 7

    7 · Orientations

    Dial 2 · the podium of three priorities.

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    Act II · Episode 8

    8 · Tasks

    Dial 3 · the SQCDP grid, and the empty chair.

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    Act II · Episode 9

    9 · Evolution

    Dial 4 · identifying is not solving.

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    Act II · Episode 10

    10 · Mid-term

    Dial 5 · five projects. “It looks like a totem.”

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    Act II · Episode 11

    11 · Coming up

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    Act II · Episode 12

    12 · Coming up

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    Act II · Episode 13

    13 · Coming up

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    Act II · Episode 14

    14 · Coming up

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    Act II · Episode 15

    15 · Coming up

Five dials, one per episode: the team builds the ritual piece by piece, and ends up giving it its name. Five more episodes follow. Five pieces that stand on their own, and a name. The rest is still to be written.

Act III · The ritual that transforms

5 episodes · to come
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    Act III · Episode 16

    16 · The ritual adjusts

    Marc falls silent: four roles, 45 minutes.

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    Act III · Episode 17

    17 · The team becomes a tribe

    Honfleur: from a team to a tribe.

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    Act III · Episode 18

    18 · Contagion

    The TOTEM spreads: thirty-seven in the making.

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    Act III · Episode 19

    19 · Culture beyond meetings

    The habit spills over into management.

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    Act III · Episode 20

    20 · The sacred revealed

    The storm: the team holds.

The ritual stops being Marc's and becomes the team's, then it is put to the test. The ritual as a shelter: the season's climax. And an epilogue, April, one year later: the sheet of paper folded in four has become a totem. “To what comes next. Not to an end.”

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