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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Who was your table companion when…
-> Who was your table companion when...I attend a lot of business dinners in a year. Perhaps too many. I have a technique. I smile… Smiling and nodding towards my left and right companions, I aim not be deeply involved in various conversations. Usually I find myself with loquacious table companions, and I can also eat. Only once I flaunted my learning and I addressed a hands...
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Magazine -> #7 ChaosThere’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...
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Magazine -> #7 ChaosMikael 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...
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Magazine -> #17 SerendipitySerendipity’s an attitude of mind that’s more than ever a must in today’s world. Be it in our everyday lives or in our professional capacity, an open mind quick to catch on to whatever’s innovative and foresightful enough to perceive its potential means, being able to exploit opportunities that would otherwise slip us by. We’re caught up ...
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Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyOver the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
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Magazine -> #4 PassionVega, the science and technology park, provides potential national and international investors in Venice with the necessary support, fostering collaboration between economic operators and encouraging innovative firms to set up their main offices in the historic center of Venice and in the nearby mainland. Is research addressed to people or busin...
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Magazine -> #20 Home MadeWhen it comes to the business world, I am absolutely convinced that the kind of creativity that leads to real innovation can only develop “in house” – in other words the place where all the input from day-to-day relations with clients and products is received and digested. To paraphrase the Chinese saying ”Listen and forget, see and remembe...
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Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaVittorio's family-given name is Qun, but his love for and knowledge of Italy have led him to adopt this very Italian sounding name. Our meeting with Vittorio is at his interior design atelier in Beijing, where he has been working for eight years now, especially for nouveau rich Chinese families whom he furnishes with many Made in Italy products. ...
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Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeHere’s a piece of news by the press that’s really digital food for thought: “sharing know-how was akin to blasphemy to Bill Gates; now he doesn’t have any alternative but to share”. It’s a radically new outlook, a complete turn around in the strategy so far pursued by the man, whose company’s cuttingedge on the global market depended...
continue..Co-operative competitors? Not so farfetched as it may seem
Magazine -> #9 CoopetitionCompetition: a bitter struggle with no ground given. But not always… Brands compete, and that's always been the straight and simple law of the market that no standard manager or business enterprise would dream disputing! Good and fair competition where quick wits and foresightedness sharpen the cutting edge over rival brands makes for sweet t...
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Magazine -> #22 KaizenStarting from its core principle, that is the progressive reduction of waste in the production process considered as “anactivity" that adds costs without adding value”, kaizen’s philosophy may be equated with the principle of simplicity and simplification, two distinct modes of the same outlook. Can such a concept, originally developed in an...
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#7 Chaos -> MagazineWhenever I think of the word “chaos” the first thing that springs to mind is when I can’t find a document in my office, or the car keys at home. But no sooner do they turn up that I’m already telling myself that after all my disorder is only a very idiosyncratic sort of order. In ancient Greek philosophy Chaos was used to refer to the disor...
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