You can’t live next to Marcel Dutil for 58 years without naming him. My father is a great influence in terms of values and a broad outlook.
Over the past few years, I also got to know someone who had worked at Toyota for 15 years. It changed my vision of leadership in an organization. But he’s not someone I talk to once a month and say, “Ouch, I have a problem, can you help me? » In real life, it’s much more informal than that.
Who listens? Listening is the trigger for everything.
The image I would have for you is that of someone who has more than one kind of screwdriver in their toolbox. Sometimes you have to be empathetic, sometimes you have to be directive, sometimes you have to seek consensus, sometimes you have to say enough is enough. You have to be able to choose the screwdriver you need.
The Beauce School of Entrepreneurship, which has become an extraordinary institution.
I put my heart and soul into it even though I had a real job. Should the president of a public company in 2008, when there is an economic downturn, ignore what the people around him say and still do things that go beyond his professional role? I was a father, I have five children. But the School of Entrepreneurship is a detour that I am very proud of. This is a big mistake.
It’s a stack of white papers. Letters that we receive, then pile up because we no longer need them, but the other side is blank. You need to explain something to a colleague… You need to write a draft of a letter… You need to draw up the itinerary for the next trip… This pile here is is all kinds of things in the making. It’s probably the most valuable item on my desk.
In my wallet is my fishing license. The season is over, but I have my salmon fishing license, I have my trout fishing license, and who knows? I definitely shouldn’t go anywhere without it.
It comes from my wife. Catherine helped me a lot with reading recommendations and reflections. The phrase that she taught me to have on the tip of my tongue and which is very helpful is: “Who is going through this? »
It’s being able to separate the ego from the person. Being able to position a reaction in the right place in your life. Realize that the person who is experiencing this, often, is not yourself, because it’s like an autopilot has taken over.
” Good morning “, *!
For a year, I directed people to the French language guide: bon matin is an Anglicism that comes from good morning. Now I have completely given up. But every time I hear it, I say to myself: which crazy person decided that we say that in the morning?
When I need to prioritize ideas, organize them, or let go of some, it’s often a blank sheet of paper. I place my idea at the center and I give myself time to – the English word is better – do mind mapping [conceptual cartography]. But when I really need inspiration, I go to a bookstore, real or virtual. It’s really weird, but chance has always served me well when I entered a bookstore.
I think you guessed it: fishing, reading…
And, a little selfishly, I like to travel.
It doesn’t make sense, but I like getting on a plane for 10 hours. Because it’s really rare that I have 10 quiet hours in my life. I like waiting at the airport, I like being alone in my hotel room. I need those moments of tranquility that come with long trips.
I have three names. The first is René Préval [president of Haiti twice between 1996 and 2011]. I met him three or four weeks after the earthquakes in Haiti. He served us coffee himself, we chatted. It was almost intimate, in a corner of the palace that had not collapsed.
I met Guy Lafleur three or four times. This gentleman has always impressed me. I don’t know, it’s the human side of being gifted.
The third is Claude Boivin. He is a bearer of sacred objects in the community of Mashteuiatsh in Lac-Saint-Jean. Claude wrote a play which was performed in Montreal about the reality of orphanages.
I met Mr. Boivin two and a half days into my life, last summer, and he made my top 3 because he opened my eyes to lots of things.
Marc Dutil has been President and CEO of Canam Group since 2012. Specializing in the design and manufacturing of metal parts for the construction industry, the company has 12 factories in Canada and the United States.
Marc Dutil was born in 1964 in Saint-Georges. From 1983 to 1986, he studied at Boston College in administration and computer science, then founded an information technology company.
In 1989, he joined the Canam Manac Group, founded by his father Marcel in 1973. He was named executive vice-president in 2001, then president and chief operating officer in 2003.
He is the founder of the Beauce School of Entrepreneurship, which opened in 2010 and of which he is still chairman of the board of directors.
Marc Dutil has been married to Catherine Larochelle since 1989. They are the parents of five children.
