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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
The opinion
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 -> #15 Techno-ecologyRather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...
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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...
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Magazine -> #4 PassionA quick review of the artistic passions, emotional drive, irresistible attractions and unmotivated fury of artists that are capable of making history. Marina Abramovic and her boyfriend Ulay run in great strides towards each other, as if attracted by a magnet. Their bodies slam into each other. They fall, they get up, they do it again and agai...
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Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorIn your experience, how have errors affected your professional practice and what’s your attitude towards making mistakes? Errors can critically affect the outcome of any work, but they’re also an opportunity for reviewing consolidated practices and routine ways of doing things. As such, they can be very liberating, obliging us to make new deci...
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Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIt’s not true that emotions are simply there for the taking. Shock may well be a common feeling. So may disgust. A man baked in an oven out of revenge, laid out on a huge dish, well done and crispy, with a garnish of colourful vegetables, as seen at the end of one of Peter Greenaway’s movies. Something classical, such as ornamental wallpa...
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Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
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Magazine -> #7 ChaosThere’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...
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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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Magazine -> #22 Kaizen«Waste […] will always follow the economic path of least resistance». Jim Puckett, committed environmentalist The methodology designed to cut down on processes that do not create added value for a product is based on marginalising waste. This concept is summed up by the Japanese word muda, which means rubbish. for Italian-speakers among us,...
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