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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
India: a journey through coffee-lands
Magazine -> #8 Place, not placeOn the one hand a family of entrepreneurs that believes in sustainable development, and a man who has given his art over to the same idea on the other. The family goes by the name of Illy and the man by that of Sebastião Salgado. Salgado’s views were recorded by Anna Illy Belci on 18 December 2003 on site in the Karnatak district. The lands ...
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Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindI met the suggestion that I write something up on the topic of “food for the mind” with enthusiasm. Not only do I find it stimulating, but it’s also very topical. Our physiological needs, as Maslow calls them, including self-security, a sense of communal belonging and esteem, have been fairly much appeased in the West; we’ve peaked his famo...
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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 -> #22 KaizenEver since it was first used in management theory, the Japanese concept, kaizen, has intrigued me. So much so that, before gladly applying it in our company, more than fifteen years ago, I went to Japan to study it “on site” at Toyota, where the term was first seriously applied. There I was able to appreciate how efficient it is and see how thi...
continue..An uncontrollable passion
Magazine -> #2 Creating OpportunitiesIt gets into your head, but mostly into your heart and senses; it is something vague until the object of desire materialises, and then you can reach out for it, touch it, possess it. At the cost of no matter what sacrifice. The love of making collections is a phenomenon the outcome of which may be a collection of cards but also a collection of excl...
continue..The coffee of tomorrow
Magazine -> #25 InnovageIn front of a cup of coffee illy’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations have been an occasion for me to take a deeper look at this corporate enterprise. What I see is a fine example of Innovage. Thinking back to the nineties, I remember when a cup of espresso coffee was still fairly much a lack-lustre commodity. At the bar one would simply o...
continue..A starspangled life
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledgeMargherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...
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-> AboutIn an increasingly fast and interconnected world, a magazine can slow down the pace and become a space for reflection and learning. This is the role of illywords. For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world. Topics have covered space, courag...
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