Smartworking, sense of non-belonging and sub-groups

The body-company and its organization function mainly due to their ability to generate and consolidate a pulsating sense of belonging and, on this shared feeling, the structure of the reference group, the lines of command and, in fact, the achievement of goals. The manifest risk for organizations today, in relation to the consequences of covid and smartworking, is a possible erosion of the sense…
Culture and Responsibility: The corporate consensus

I like to think that the concept of corporate culture could be updated and evolved to the concept of corporate consensus. Etymologically, consent (verb: allow) means feeling together, in unison: in fact it recalls assent, agreement, success, will, conformity, approval. In its current usage it is mainly associated with the world…
Culture & Business: Covid-19 vaccine and business models

We are witnessing the global anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign and it is useful to make a consideration of principle. The business model used is made up of various manufacturing companies (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, etc.) which have the know-how and specific skills to study and develop the vaccine, manage production and mass distribution; these companies sell…
Entropy, complexity and clarity

For years in organizations we have talked a lot about how to increase empathy to increase productivity. Now, without wanting to take anything away from all the work done on empathy, we need to introduce a new word into the corporate lexicon: entropy. All in all, the most obvious consequence emerging today is the increase in complexity (the so-called…
Artbonus, Italian patronage is growing

Thanks to the Artbonus tool, donations to Italian cultural heritage have exceeded 500 million euros, increasing by over 65 million euros in nine months. 17.898 patrons supported 4.123 interventions registered on the website www.artbonus.gov.it with…
Work unhappiness and the culture of change

STRATEGIZING by Emanuele Sacerdote. These lines have been written for those who would like to change jobs, or are looking for one. There is a lot of talk about happiness in the workplace and I am convinced that if there were more happy workers, productivity and the company climate would…
Business strategy: Precautionary principle

STRATEGIZING by Emanuele Sacerdote The precautionary principle represents the behavior, attitude and attitude that makes us act with greater caution and attention with respect to a possible danger or an unexpected potential. The ingrained concept behind this principle is the risk that an event may actually…
Business strategy: “Strategizing” by Emanuele Sacerdote

Resilience and Resistance During the last Strega Prize Sandro Veronesi, winner of the 2020 edition, taught us a new word: emmenalgia (from the Greek verb emmèno) which means to remain firm, persevere, continue strenuously to the bitter end, oppose, resist. This word represents a very broad dimension of human nature and, therefore, can also be successfully applied…
Business and Philosophy: Venture Thinking is born

The Covid epidemic has completely overturned the rules of the business and finance world. Once the health emergency has passed, a profound economic crisis will have to be managed globally which will completely redesign the dynamics of the world of work. How do the…
The reformist company as a guide to real change

Businesses as the vanguard of the country's transformation, to counterbalance populism and an increasingly statist policy: Antonio Calabrò, former deputy director of Il Sole 24 Ore and currently director of the Pirelli Foundation, writes about this in the new book…
Guggenheim, Venice: “Art and Business” turns 25

Guggenheim Intrapresæ is initially characterized as an experiment of collaboration between museum and company which takes its first steps towards a type of lasting investment capable of enhancing the activity of the subjects involved.
Coop in Italy: x-ray of the 80 companies

According to a census of their study center, today there are almost 80 thousand cooperatives in Italy: Sicily is the Region where they are most concentrated, followed by Lombardy and Lazio - Female cooperatives are growing, but youth ones are decreasing -…
Golinelli: there is no company without social responsibility

On the occasion of the presentation of the book "Entrepreneurs wanted, innovating to start growing again", published by the Mill, the philanthropist Marino Golinelli, founder and patron of Alfa Wassermann and of the Foundation that bears his name said: "The company is social responsibility : you have to ask yourself…
Algeria: a change of gear is needed

Algeria today lives in a situation of political instability due to the health conditions of President Bouteflika and the threat of Islamic terrorism - At the same time, the country has low competitiveness and a bureaucratic machine that is too slow and…

A total of 172 projects implemented by 48 Foundations have been surveyed - The survey will be presented in its entirety on May 20 at the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2015 in Milan - The young people who, directly or indirectly, have benefited from the interventions surveyed are…
South Korea, boom of young entrepreneurs

In 2014 in South Korea, for the first time since 2002, the number of young people aged between 20 and 30 increased considerably: if you look closely at the data, however, the increase is not due to…
Venice: Closing international conference of the Messe project

The Final International Conference of the MESSE Project (Mechanism for Enhancement of Synergy and Sustainability among Enterprises) will be held on 25 September at the Palazzo Grandi Stazioni in Venice - The regional councilor Marialuisa Coppola: "It will be a very important appointment: a step…