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  • Il lavoro che funziona

    Il primo ospite dell’iniziativa “Il Lavoro che funziona” lo scorso 11 Novembre è stato Marco Venturelli.
    Ad intervistarlo, quattro professionisti ed esperti del mondo del lavoro con un mix di competenze composito: Nicola D’Adamo, esperto di postura e stili di vita salutari, Mauro Dotta, Senior Hr Consultant ed esperto di leadership e relazioni, Filippo Poletti, giornalista specializzato in comunicazione interna e influencer su Linkedin e Vito Giacalone, specialista in benessere organizzativo ed esecutore del cambiamento.

  • La (falsa) sicurezza dei numeri

    Ci è piaciuto tantissimo l'articolo di Spada in Pillole di Ottimismo che lo riporto di seguito integralmente. Buona lettura

    L’articolo, dal titolo “La falsa sicurezza dei numeri”, conclude che “dal punto di vista epidemiologico gli allentamenti non sono giustificati, non siamo affatto pronti.

  • Fate's arrow when expected travel slow

    Dante, the Italian supreme poet is making his journey, “La Divina Commedia”, into Heaven when, about the Mars circle, he meets his great-great-grandfather, Cacciaguida, now a pure soul.
    Dante is eager to know about his future. He insists with Cacciaguida to know what will be his destiny, whatever good or bad it will be, and says: ”Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow”.
    The ancestor shares with him that he would have to leave his more loved things and this is the arrow the Exile Bow would shoot out. Despite knowing it, when Dante is back to Florence, though expected, he could not manage to dodge being exiled.

  • Purpose, Meaningfulnes and Happiness ai tempi del Covid Cosa impariamo dallo smart working forzato

    Il grande esperimento collettivo di smartworking forzato darà la spinta a ridisegnare I processi lavorativi per incrementare felicità, significatività e senso delle attività lavorative? Come impostare un Freshstart reimmaginando il lavoro?

  • New Normal,No Thanks

    According to the Oxford Dictionary "The New Normal" means "a previously unfamiliar or atypical situation that has become standard, usual, or expected". For example 32% of Americans say spending less is the new normal, according to a recent poll.

  • Sustainable Finance: utopia or reality?

    Nobody knows where the island of Utopia is.

    Utopia is a Greek pun on 'ou-topos' [no place] and 'eu-topos' [good place] and in modern times the word has been first used by Thomas More in 1516.

    Nature is respected and loved.

  • Finance Sustainability and Happiness

    I am thrilled to start as a Key note speaker in this prestigious Lithuanian Financial community. Unfortunately I cannot speak your language but coming here encouraged me to learn more about Lithuania, and helped me to discover an exciting story of Happiness.

  • Finanza Sostenibilità e Felicità

    Per recuperare la fiducia dei cittadini nei confronti dell’impresa serve una Finanza rifondata, quella Finanza che non ha voluto porsi al servizio delle opportunità di business che derivano dalla sostenibilità ma si è posta come padrona del mondo.

  • #freshstart

    A powerful trio of experts will make Italy exit from Covid crisis with a Fresh Start.

    A combination of Happiness, Sustainability and Finance will make the country flourish again.

  • The Happy CFO

    In my opinion, we need Happy CFOs. A Happy CFO has reached the short term objectives of his or her unit without compromising the long term sustainability. He or she has then optimized the use of money

  • The Happiness Advantage

    If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently.

  • Through Happy lens

    I guess that your team is still, maybe imprisoned in the Plato’s cave, they have their own knowledge and opinion on how to best run their area of accountability

  • 20 March INTL day Happiness

    The General Assembly, (..) conscious that the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal, decides to proclaim 20 March the International Day of Happiness

  • CFO: Job of Happiness

    Companies contribute to Country economy growth. If all of them define long term sustainability objectives, we would have a lot of “happy CFOs"

  • Make them Flourish

    Veruska Gennari and Daniela di Ciaccio' : Positive Organisation Science creates a happy working environment where people flourish and reach results far above expectations

  • Happiness Agenda

    Is the Pursuit of Happiness high on the World Economic Forum Agenda in Davos? I am sitting in a Swiss chalet in Davos, waiting for the most powerful companies leaders to come.

  • Fill your Budget with Happiness

    One of the biggest process and rituals of nowadays corporations has its climax in October.How much time are we spending on Planning Happiness?

  • A 7 Days guide for the pursue of Happiness while working in Finance

    How Finance associates can help increasing Happiness in their working environment and companies? A 7 Days behavioural based approach

  • The Art of Measuring Happiness

    The subject of centuries of scrutiny and debate: how to measure happiness solved by the genius of Leonardo. He wasn’t able to measure it but he. …painted it. Stare at Mona Lisa and mirror yourself into Happiness

  • On Giant's shoulders

    I took the advantage to absorb from many colleagues a lot of their knowledge, behaviour, empathy, competencies, skills, and that made of me a better person, a better leader

  • Happiness, GDP, Money, Company

    Money increase Happiness, if you use it wisely – 5 rules

  • Budget: Motivation Anxiety and Control

    Grunting and patting each other in front of their objective was giving them the energy and motivation to go out in the open field

  • Budget: Setting targets

    How many times as CFOs we ask for probabilised Risk and Opportunities to understand what is the likelihood of a certain objective to be achieved, what are the actions in place to reach the objective.

  • What Finance Professionals can learn from Cricket Players

    A vision based on a profession that “will help people and organisations shape their futures, combining insight with integrity” – in other words, a future-focused, value-adding profession that goes way beyond the stewardship and scorekeeper roles of our past.

  • How an Italian CFO can explain "living in a leaning tower"​ to his HQs

    Ingram Pinn's illustration of the Italian situation published on FT the 26th Oct 2018, I am sure will catch the attention of many colleagues in HQs. The timing of the article is "perfect" as usually November is a month of budget presentation for many multinationals operating in Italy.

  • Europe

    Ho cercato in alcuni saggi pubblicati recentemente, spunti per riflettere su quale atteggiamento e posizione prendere in vista delle opportunità delle Elezioni Europee.

    Ti riassumo di seguito come “Neuro-scettici: Perchè uscire dall’euro sarebbe una follia” di Leonardo Becchetti e “Il Filo Infinito” di Paolo Rumiz mi stanno motivando a sostenere la visione di un’ Europa unita.

  • Sustainable Agenda

    I am most touched by the excellent outcome that the ‘Co creating Social Impact’ booth had, during the recent Global Finance Forum in Novartis. It was impressive to see how Finance is already engaged into the Trust and Reputation Building objective and the Sustainability Agenda. The wealth of best practices, experiences, material and exchanges was huge.

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