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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...
04/06/2024 - BlackBerry story, a movie about a insightful case study of innovation, business and technology
Before the smartphone BlackBerry was the communication innovation that conquered the international market. This movie tells masterfully its story and parabole in a dramatic/satirical way. Lots of...
01/06/2024 - The Classics Forum : source of powerful meanings also above and beyond the industry
It was a pleasure to attend this forum masterfully organized by Camillo Mekacher-Vogel and Michele Bertoncello : meaningful insights have been elaborated and presented through a smart active...
26/05/2024 - When and how art becomes a leverage to business development
Within a global business environment increasingly complex and changing, art can become a relevant lever towards problem solving and opportunity identification...(Harvard Business Review article)
21/05/2024 - Purpose over profit: the driver to sustainable organizational progress and growth...
The traditional focus on profit for growth is increasingly pragmatically shifting towards a focus on on organizational purpose and it uniquess. This is the real leverage to sustainable growth in the...
16/05/2024 - Performance management that puts people first, a perspective
Performance and the objectivization of it, is at the basis of the sustainable growth of any organization. It is fundamental to realise that, no matter the technological advancements, people are still...
26/04/2024 - Renovation and a new unique menu at Café Elba in Alibag
We are happy to announce that our Cafè Elba in Alibag just completed a renovation set to step-up the Italian Flair that has characterized the place since its opening: great food and peace...
17/04/2024 - Riccardo Paterni leads a training path to safety improvement driven by awareness, communication and leadership at Sofidel Spain SL
Safety is the objective number one for Sofidel Group and in order to keep improving safety targets across the entire organization (spreading across Europe and United States) Riccardo has...
14/04/2024 - AI and professional creativity in action, new fields under rapid developments
Artificial Intelligence is more than ever a key factor to the development and growth of several fields and within the creative one (relative to several sectors) AI can represent a powerful tool...
11/04/2024 - Barriers to effective top talent management and how to overcome them
Identifying, nurturing and managing top talent is a key factor relevant to the sustainability and growth of small to large organisations alike. There are some key factors that represent barriers to...
04/04/2024 - Synergy Pathways, spring 2024 action time in Italy: several business development meetings for Samit and Riccardo
Samit has traveled to Italy from March 23rd through April 4th and we have been having several meetings in various geographical areas of Italy on business projects linking India to Italy at several...
24/03/2024 - Effective delegating as business owners
As business owners one of the most powerful and yet most difficult to use levers for growth is the one of delegating. This article highlights some key insights on the topic ...(Entrepreneur article)
10/03/2024 - The dynamics of the global job market by country: what industry hires the most
Job markets are changing rapidly across the globe; it is interesting to note what kind of dynamics feed and consolidate such changes per country from a global perspective ...(VisualCapitalist...
05/03/2024 - How to use effective the lever of delegating
The topic of delegating effectively has become more relevant than ever because of the current and foreseeable future complexities that organizations small to large alike are set to face, this article...
20/02/2024 - The roots of leadership miscommunications when tensions are high
Times of uncertainty and change cause strains in communication; leadership communication is often tangled up in these dynamics, awareness about it can prevent the spreading of a negative impact.(HBR...
02/02/2024 - What define effective leadership today
Change, uncertainty, volatility driven by technological and geopolitical contexts and factors: all of this charactizes the environment many leader (of small to midsize and large companies alike) are...