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30/03/2025 - Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Chaotic Times...
The current times of unpredictable, even extreme chaotic change, need to be tackled with specific approaches driven by enlightened flexibility and focus, this article illustrates some of them that...
09/02/2025 - Key questions for team decision making
Effective teamwork is characterized by effective questions triggering several meaningful perspectives on issues and proper decision making. Some practical insights in this article.(Harvard Business...
07/02/2025 - Organizational leadership and the practical sport metaphors for its effectiveness
More then even top organizational leadership is complex given the many variables, changes and uncertainties in place that represent both opportunities and issues to manage. Consistent performance is...
02/02/2025 - A thought provoking mind and his writings
No matter what we think of him as an entrepreneur or a person, Jeff Bezos, has no doubt made a powerful mark in the way that our lives from several perspectives; many of his views are powerfully...
24/01/2025 - Riccardo Paterni is interviewed by Emilia Romagna Economy January 2025 about RPM Italia Vision
The first issue of the printed version of the magazine "Emilia Romagna Economy" features an interview to Riccardo Paterni regarding the "Vision behind RPM Italia"; RPM is an Italian Motorsport formal...
19/01/2025 - Samit Naik becomes mentor within a Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry program
As Synergy Pathways we always commit to sharing insights, knowledge and learn from each other to grow as individuals and professionals. For this we have been honoured to embrace the role that the...
12/01/2025 - CES 2025: what's on and what's next
CES is by now the global trade show of innovations that go well beyond consumer electronics: this is a report on the 2025 edition...(Forbes article)
31/12/2024 - 2024 Review in charts
2024 business review in charts, an interesting overall perspective on key economic and financial dynamics...(McKinsey & Co. article)
25/12/2024 -
Powerful inspiring reading during the holidays… this must read hashtagCesare Fiorio ‘s biography by his son Cristiano Fiorio . These are the kind of hashtagtimeless books on hashtagmotorsport...
16/12/2024 - Happy Holidays and Prosperous 2025!
We wish all of you and your families happy holidays and a prosperous 2025 filled with synergic pathways towards common meaningful relevant goals Synergy Pathways style!
14/12/2024 - 2024 in charts
It is always interesting to look and make sense of data in order to understand facts and events of the past 12 months; a learning experience...(McKinsey & Co. article)
09/12/2024 - Competence as the key driver to sustainable growth
Increasingly and naturally competence has become a key element of organizational focus for survival and sustainable growth, it all pivots upon actual recognized leadership that needs to be widespread...
08/12/2024 - Effective delegation: some classic, ever effective factors
Delegation remains a key topic of discussion and execution for Small and Midsize Enterprises: often it is a practice that is misconceived and not effective implemented. Some key factors to meaningful...
04/12/2024 - Effective communication skills for leaders
Communication is an essential for leaders to be effective in communicating about and managing change, in making change an opportunity for development and growth. Some important practical...
23/11/2024 - Organizational strategy through a balancing act of agility
Organizational agility more than ever is an essential part of an effective organizational strategy yet is essential to push it forward in a balanced way finding consistent factors to pivot...
17/11/2024 - Strategy and its necessary match with organizational identity
Organizational identity is a key fulcrum to any organization for its inner dynamics (organizational culture and inner engagement) and external dynamics in terms of differentiation on the market for...
14/11/2024 - Powerful lessons of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and overall projection towards the future
Lucca dedicating its first edition of the Innovation and Competitiveness award to Fabio Perini ; as many people I owe my personal and professional path to him and the organizational culture he...
10/11/2024 - The future: its predictions and its outcomes
The future has always been object of predictions by futurologists and scientists alike, it is always interesting and a learning experience to review how things turned out compared to...
07/11/2024 - DEI as an organizational strategy and performance lever
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion actual organizational policies can become strategy and performance levers when applied with concrete focus and targeted awareness...(MIT Sloan Review)
30/10/2024 - F1: a historical perspective on its technology and business dynamics
This is a remarkable book representing a fresh fast paced historical perspective of what technology and business have made F1 the technology and business global powerhouse it is today. Many insights...
26/10/2024 - Organizational leadership in the 21st century: its key factors
Effective leadership is more than ever a key leverage to manage the problems and opportunities emerging from an ever complex external environment. There are some key factors that represent a...
25/10/2024 - Essential communication for leadership
Communication is an essential tool to effective leadership, nowadays more than ever, there are some specific elements to it that have been identified scientifically as fundamental.(FastCompany...
18/10/2024 - Key factors in selecting and shaping relationships with business partners
Selecting business partners to identify and shape business ventures needs to be done methodically and following specific factors that are essential to develop successful business in the also in the...
16/10/2024 - Riccardo Paterni works on an organizational development project in Promotec
Promotec Srl is an organization that manages the relevant international automotive after sales trade show Autopromotec and other automotive related associations such...
13/10/2024 - Innovation and scaling key factors
Key factors to generate creativity, turn it into innovation and scale the relevant entrepreneurial project...(Harvard Business Review)
11/10/2024 - Ratan Tata legacy will carry on forever: timeless values, more necessary than ever, are part of it
On October 9th one of the most important organizational and social global leaders of the current time has passed away: Ratan Tata, President Emeritus of the Indian Tata Group. During his life not...
06/10/2024 - Fresh perspectives generating creativity and innovation
A book with remarkable practical insights on unique perspectives to generate ideas and innovation ... (Think like a rocket scientist - book summary)
02/10/2024 - Talent management dynamics from a global and local perspective
Managing talents from a global organizational perspective requires marked efforts to focus on the essential local characteristics linked to a socio-cultural perspectives...(Harvard Business School...
30/09/2024 - Safety as a Performance Driver
Safety, across all different industries, can be and has to be a performance driver stimulating and sustaining a consistent commitment to the type of synergic teamwork across organisational areas that...
24/09/2024 - Key technology trends for 2025
Technology in many ways shapes change in organizations and society, let's look at some of the key technology trends projected for 2025...(Forbes article)
15/09/2024 - Leadership nowadays: new perspectives and practices
An interesting, in depth and well articulated report on the key characteristics of that organizational leadership needs to work on and put into practice today...(MIT Sloan Report)
09/09/2024 - Strategic Planning needs to be reestablished as a lever for progress, yet it foundations need to be revised
Strategic Planning is needed in order to shape a foreseeable organizational future, not everything can be left to chance because of the consistent changes that surround us. Yet the foundations and...
02/09/2024 - Sources of wisdom for leaders in the age of AI
Organizational leadership is nowadays more relevant than ever and its driving sources are more fundamental than ever in driving lasting sustainable change.(Inc. article)
27/08/2024 - The Openess lever of emotionally intelligent people
Openness in relations is a powerful tool to ensure proper reciprocal understanding: openness needs to be implemented properly, based upon specific factors...(Inc. article)
11/08/2024 - The actual development of people in organizations is a topic more relevant than ever...
Aside from all the technological developments that appear to be at the foundation of organizational growth and development yet in practical terms the essence of it all relates to identifying and...
07/08/2024 - The CEO role, leadership and succession dynamics
The role of a CEO (for small or or large organizations) consist in its essence in establishing a context of growth of development sustainable in the mid to long term. This requires the development...
04/08/2024 - New perspectives on factors that make organizations healthy
Healthy organizations are characterized by some key factors that are increasingly evident, quite often are traditional organizational factors of development that are perceived and utilized under new...
03/08/2024 - The wisdom leverage to individual and organizational progress across generations
Knowledge is the key aspect for individual and organizational progress, yet within consistent context of change that requires rapid effective decision making often on the basis of limited reliable...
28/07/2024 - The challenges and opportunities in managing Generation Z
Generation Z is by now notoriously the one that presents characteristics that appear the toughest one to manage, at times it appears impossible to make sense of what is actually happening and what...
25/07/2024 - Organizational innovation: leveraging on open and closed ecosystems
Innovation is about openness and teamwork, even history (beyond superficial stereotypes) show it. These kind of dynamics relate to the inner and outer organizational system as this article...
18/07/2024 - The curiosity leverage driving our thinking actions...
Often we are brought to think that we are driven by fear, this interesting research shows that curiosity is instead a key natural healthy driver to thinking and action. The more we focus on it...
14/07/2024 - Designing Reskilling programs
Reskilling programs represent nowadays a concrete practical way to ensure organizational development and effectiveness. It is essential to set them efficiently and effectively. This interesting...
07/07/2024 - Innovation in automotive connecting tradition and the future: Ford Motor Company and the Michigan Central Project
Ford Motor Company has developed a project that values the tradition of the company and projects them into the future of the field that requires consistent innovation...(Fast Company article)
05/07/2024 - Intuition as driving force of decision making
Intuition is a driving force of decision making, mostly within volatile environments. Dr.Gary Klein work has been seminal within this topic and it has been made popular years ago through his book...
03/07/2024 - Leadership key factor: knowing how to ask the right questions
Effective leadership within change pivots upon a key factor: knowing how to ask the right questions...(Fast Company article)
23/06/2024 - Talent and hard work dynamics ...
Talent alone is not sufficient for success, at the same time, hard work alone neither makes the cut for concrete aimed affirmation. A mix of both is essential to fulfil potentials and it all starts...
21/06/2024 - Riccardo Paterni, representing RPM, as judge panelist of the 5th edition TACC UniMoRe program
TACC stays for "Training for Automotive Companies Creation", it is an international post graduate program created and managed by UniMoRe (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). The program has...
14/06/2024 - Power, influence and the dynamics of successions
The topic of organizational leadership succession is more relevant than ever for organizations large and small: more than ever it is essential to have an operational vision for the future within...
09/06/2024 - At the historic inspiring roots of Lego innovation
The history of Lego, its roots and developments, are a powerful example of what generates and feeds innovation across time, technical and economic sectors. It can be a powerful reference for change...
06/06/2024 - A perspective on AI: reaching a developemt bottleneck ?
This is article features an interesting perspective on AI current developments pointing out that a development bottleneck might be next and it is all linked to AI needing to learn from humans in...