long, long ago, when I was studying marketing on-the-job, I went to a library and run through Philip Kotler’s books, to see if what I had learned through pre-sales and other marketing activities or working with sales and marketing directors to crunch their numbers matched what the books said.
I was interested by two unusual books- [...]
A full month? June, 2011
High (in)visibility
Thursday, June 30th, 2011Human rights in Europe
Thursday, June 30th, 2011until the late 1970s, my view of human rights was quite simple- and until 2001 I strongly supported the concept of “universal jurisdiction”: but thereafter I became quite skeptical at the distance between practice and theory.
human rights in theory
my perception came from political activities, as a political activist in the early 1980s, with a strange [...]
Negotiating
Friday, June 17th, 2011today is Friday, and, incidentally, this week-end I was going to post online the last round of my journey through business Dutch (available here).
moreover: this is a “bibliography” post, i.e. mixing my ruminations with references to make up your own mind (and I use Wikipedia as a “link collector”- follow the links to the sources [...]
The Jago Principle: the social side
Thursday, June 16th, 2011when I posted on twitter
The #Jago Principle http://tinyurl.com/6g7whhv #leadership #communication #gatekeeping #networking
I had already outlined what I would write within the half of the article devoted to the applications of the Jago principle within business.
well, let’s say that news, as usual, gave me the opportunity to keep the focus, but use current events as a [...]
The Jago Principle: the business side
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011when I posted on twitter
The #Jago Principle http://tinyurl.com/6g7whhv #leadership #communication #gatekeeping #networking
I had already outlined what I would write within the half of the article devoted to the applications of the Jago principle within business.
well, let’s say that news, as usual, gave me the opportunity to keep the focus, but use current events as a [...]
The Jago principle
Monday, June 13th, 2011The Iago principle
as I posted this morning on the status update:
news-induced consideration (one week of observations): how many decisions are made by relying to the loyalty of a Jago? worth an article
this article is split in two parts: a social side, and a business side.
of course, the title is a reference to “Othello”, [...]
Connecting the dots: Europe, Italy, innovation
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Today is Sunday, and therefore I would like to share few thoughts derived from both the economic and political news of this week.
I will first share what is derived directly from the news, and then something that I was preparing, on “connecting-the-dots”, and has been relaunched by a discussion that I had online yesterday with [...]
Converging Europe- what the numbers say
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Numbers, numbers, numbers…
the more I read newspapers (online and offline), whatever country the specific newspaper is coming from, the more I keep thinking: are we confusing data analysis with data collection?
It is a general trend, but within the scope of this article I will focus just on European Union.
What can say publicly available data to [...]