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Corporate culture

curated by Antonio Calabrò

Industry at its finest gives rise to culture,
forging original combinations of value and values, profitability and social relations
Accomplishing reforms and overcoming limitations in the wake of The Economist’s commendation of Italy
Little Italy. Pizza, mafia and mandolin. Spaghetti-eaters. Chatterboxes. The sick nation of Europe. For the time being, we can bin all stereotypes, as Italy has been named “country of the ...
Leggi Accomplishing reforms and overcoming limitations in the wake of The Economist’s commendation of Italy
A new prize dedicated to children’s fiction – because reading is fun and makes...
Let's reiterate, once again, how enjoyable and important reading is, by recalling a famous quote by Umberto Eco: “At the age of 70, those who don’t read will have led ...
Leggi A new prize dedicated to children’s fiction – because reading is fun and makes...
Rebuilding trust and arresting cultural deterioration to counteract an “irrational society”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” Rereading Blaise Pascal's Pensées (Thoughts) is always beneficial - it especially helps when contemplating the deeper meaning arising from the ...
Leggi Rebuilding trust and arresting cultural deterioration to counteract an “irrational society”
The vulnerabilities and costs of transitions and Karl Popper’s future, “a lure and a...
Transitions: we live in controversial times, marked by deep, radical transitions. The environmental transition, rife with the opportunities arising from the green economy and yet also burdened by the turmoil ...
Leggi The vulnerabilities and costs of transitions and Karl Popper’s future, “a lure and a...
Industry is on the rise, time for reshoring Back to domestic manufacturing, in Europe
“Industry, the driving force of Italy, propels the European recovery” asserted the Centro Studi Confindustria research centre in its recent report on industrial scenarios (Il Sole24Ore, 21 November). In fact, ...
Leggi Industry is on the rise, time for reshoring Back to domestic manufacturing, in Europe
Rediscovering the values and beauty of writing in our rash times of “Likes” and...
“I believe in the mystery of words and that words can become life, destiny, just as they become beauty.” Leonardo Sciascia knew how to use words well, with measured rigour ...
Leggi Rediscovering the values and beauty of writing in our rash times of “Likes” and...
Narrating Milan, with its thousands of construction cranes and Saba’s poetry where “words light...
Narrating Milan, in these times of reawakening and recovery, avoiding clichés. Trying instead to discern, between fact and fiction, the deeper meaning embodied in London mayor Sadiq Khan's recent statement ...
Leggi Narrating Milan, with its thousands of construction cranes and Saba’s poetry where “words light...
Exit Only: the brain drain continues, while there’s too much talk of pensions, as...
“Exit Only” is the very fitting title of a book by Giulia Pastorella, a young manager who is at once very Milanese and very international (a degree from Oxford, specialist ...
Leggi Exit Only: the brain drain continues, while there’s too much talk of pensions, as...
Going beyond daily risks and fears, to restore confidence in institutions and companies
“No one can go back and start anew, but everyone can go on and choose the ending.” Confiding in the wisdom of Karl Barth, 20th-century Swiss theologian with a keen, ...
Leggi Going beyond daily risks and fears, to restore confidence in institutions and companies
A successful Turin International Book Fair and the new role played by bookshops and...
“Reading generates independence” reads a message on a beam in one of the Turin International Book Fair’s pavilions, swarming with almost as many people as in the good old times, ...
Leggi A successful Turin International Book Fair and the new role played by bookshops and...
The new threat of a “shortage economy” and how the EU could act to...
The latest issue of The Economist is entitled “The shortage economy” and tells how a new season of shortages in raw materials and semi-finished products is threatening global wealth. After ...
Leggi The new threat of a “shortage economy” and how the EU could act to...
In praise of “pure research”, and its significance for the understanding of ways and...
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been able to discover, trial, produce and administer effective vaccines to hundreds of millions of people in a very short time – an ...
Leggi In praise of “pure research”, and its significance for the understanding of ways and...
A recovery agreement based on the work and responsibilities of companies and trade unions
The path towards a balanced and sustainable development, improving conditions and lasting over time, includes unprecedented concepts that blend together wealth building and social cohesion, productivity and solidarity. Here we ...
Leggi A recovery agreement based on the work and responsibilities of companies and trade unions
The contemplative speed of Milan: the “blue-green” metropolis is at the heart of new...
Milan is fast, Milan is frenetic, Milan hurries too much, Milan never stops. These are stereotypes, clichés. In all fairness, they do harbour some truth, but they are limited, as ...
Leggi The contemplative speed of Milan: the “blue-green” metropolis is at the heart of new...
Here are the numbers needed to discuss work and welfare, reforming basic income and...
Figures come in handy when discussing significant reforms and a socially sustainable future. The first figure we're looking at is 400,000 – the number of job vacancies that companies fear ...
Leggi Here are the numbers needed to discuss work and welfare, reforming basic income and...