#7 Chaos

Italian style has one of its peaks of perfection in Ducati. That's also because at Ducati they do things in the inimitable Italian way. It's a sort of organised disorder. The famous marque's CEO, Federico Minoli, and its creative director, David Gross, talk about the Ducati way and style. A huddle of red shirts moves aside finally letting me ge...

There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the sustainability of corporate enterprise. Corporations operate in a natural context. They bring about changes in the environment and upset the natural balance, while trying to impose their own. What kind of governance can there be for this sort of activity? Corporations live off nature. It’s essential tha...

Francesco Di Lauro talks with  Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...

Mikael Strandänger is CE of Arts & Business Sweden. The firm’s very name sums up its vision and mission in its pursuit of reconciling two apparently antithetical worlds. How, it may be asked, can two realities, one of which, according to common lore, is the epitome of order as much as the other is of disorder, possibly co-exist without c...

To Greek philosophers the concepts of “world” and “order” were synonymous. To our contemporaries the world is more akin to chaos. Art has sought order in disorder, disorder in order, sometimes managing to find a balance between the two. By Angela Vettese, art reviewer and critic. Albert Einstein’s contention was that God doesn’t thro...

There’s a lot of talk going around about order and disorder, and there’s a common opinion that the two concepts are diametrically opposed to each other. But nature is not at all that “orderly”. The laws of thermodynamics clearly tell us that disorder is growing everywhere in the universe. And if we look at any business enterprise, we can...