Michel-Édouard Leclerc is probably the favorite boss of the French and one of the best known. Renowned for his outspokenness, the CEO is also a man who does not live in his ivory tower. He has been working since his adolescence.
Much more accessible than a Bernard Arnault and willingly more talkative than a Vincent Bolloré, the famous CEO Michel-Édouard Leclerc is not of the rich boss who is content to follow the price of the stock market in his office. He is a man who loves the field and it has been going on since his childhood!
Michel-Édouard Leclerc made a slew of jobs before becoming a boss
Questioned in August by Les Echoswho devoted a summer series to the summer jobs of the big bosses, Michel-Édouard Leclerc told everything he could do in his youth before getting there. “”From my 12 years, I work at least a month every summer in the family store (The first was in Landerneau in Finistère, editor’s note) : in the fruit and vegetable department, at the butcher’s shop, at the grocery store … A season, I am entrusted with the book and records, the first of the E.Leclerc centers (…) The salespeople of the publishers announces the new features and free to choose the artists that we are going to put forward. A responsibility which I am proud of“, He said.
Will follow “Summer weekends by picking up potatoes with my friends of farmers, who live 25 or 30 km from my home, to make me pocket money“, Going there by bike. Then, once arrived in Paris for his higher education, Michel-Édouard Leclerc continued to work in parallel.”To pay the rent of my studio rue Lepic, in the 18th, I work at least three summers at Bouygues headquarters“He remembered.
To this is added to his record “A student courier job for the General Water Company“Then a work of”freelance“For different media before he cracks and joins the Leclerc group”First as an interim, then after my studies, to create an oil import company which will allow us to launch petrol operations at cost cost. “
How Michel-Édouard Leclerc founded his group’s successful strategy
The businessman, now 73 years old and who lives between Paris and Brittany, claims to have learned a lot from these summer jobs. This art lover and big comic collector has learned precious lessons “On culture differences, class reports, management methods, or not the capacity of the bosses to speak to employees, the functioning of the hierarchy …“”
After climbing the levels, Michel-Édouard Leclerc established a strategy based on the reality on the ground: “These immersions on the ground also made me aware that a good manager, it was someone who involved his teams in decision -making and who knew how to share the feeling of success. A philosophy that we strive to apply to E.Leclerc. “
