What a year! 2011

Mavericks and democracy

Monday, July 18th, 2011

first, the title: I am referring to a famous business book, not to the movie set in the XIX century Far West
the main concept within the book was a “what if”, in line with previous social experiments in bringing democracy on the workplace
but my scope will be different: what happens when a maverick leads a [...]

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Writing and mobility experiments

Monday, July 4th, 2011

First, a warning: this article contains boring technical details, but, as today, by chance, is still part of my week-end, I will try to make it readable also if you are not really that much interested into technology.
It is structured around three “themes”, all linked to writing and technology as a tool, evolving one into [...]

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Casting a (virtual) vote

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

This is the third time that I try to write this article, before losing it due to technical issues: reduced to “just” 2060 words!
The title refers to a virtual vote- but for a real, albeit future election.
It is actually composed of a “macro” and a “micro” section- if you are interested only on larger issues… [...]

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High (in)visibility

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

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- [...]

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Human rights in Europe

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

until 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 [...]

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Negotiating

Friday, June 17th, 2011

today 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 [...]

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The Jago Principle: the social side

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

when 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 [...]

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The Jago Principle: the business side

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

when 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 [...]

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The Jago principle

Monday, June 13th, 2011

The 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”, [...]

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Connecting the dots: Europe, Italy, innovation

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Today 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 [...]

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