Together We Go Further

The new sharing economy, a threat to the traditional economy? Not at all! Traditional businesses can and must learn from new business methods in order to grow. This new economy, gateway to the world of tomorrow, is an extraordinary source of opportunities. 

Written for company directors, managers, executives, entrepreneurs and students, this book, based on examples of sharing companies (Michel & Augustin, Blablacar, AirBnB, Leboncoin, KissKissBankBank ...), is a practical user manual to change management practices and reinvent traditional businesses by drawing inspiration from the sharing economy. 

French entrepreneur, and Vice-president of the Centre for Young Directors (CJD) International, Gaëtan de Sainte Marie is the founder and CEO of Qantis, the pioneer of B2B collaborative platforms, and PME Centrale, the first collaborative purchasing platform for SMEs in France. This national network of companies today pools the resources of 10,000 SMEs and employs 150,000 people, whose active membership of PME Centrale enables them to boost their purchasing efficiency and to save time. 

Gaëtan de Sainte Marie is driven by the values of the company of tomorrow: openness, sharing, training and agility, and these have contributed to the success of Qantis and its subsidiaries: PME Centrale, PME Université, Bonuus, Label A, Symbiose and KMU Zentrale for almost 20 years. 

Antoine Pivot is the founder of AskAntoine.com, a young company whose dream is to reinvent the travel guide, collaboratively of course. He worked in the microcredit sector in Madagascar for a year, before joining the CJD for 3 years as Project Manager in order to create tools for directors wishing to get their companies moving along the road to sustainable development.