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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
The race of the hares
It’s not your typical nice story of Italian firms winning in the marketplace despite all odds, but is rather the tale of the many Italian companies that, when faced with ...
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Growing together
Networking and teamwork are two of the conceptual catchphrases which periodically emerge when talking about corporate growth, development of markets, increased production and so on. Concepts that are real, rightful ...
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The “civically responsible” enterprise
Business is about profits, but it is also about responsibility in various forms, whether it be financial, humanistic, social or civic. Sure, it may be difficult to see factories as ...
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Enterprising conversation
In business, we produce and we talk. We work and we meet. Now more than every, a company is a place where information is shared and interests coalesce and so ...
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Machiavelli, entrepreneur and manager
These days captains of industry are definitely captains courageous, even if care is needed in order not to overly idealise figures who, although important, deal with a variety of situations ...
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Against the “educated ignorant”
The future also involves the rebirth and the consolidation of a new humanism, focused on humankind and on everything, on the implications of the economy which are not just figures ...
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Innovating – how and why
Innovate or die. This is an (extremely) brief possible description of the condition of a great part (although not the whole) of Italy’s industrial system. It is no secret that ...
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Looking to the future in 11 different ways
What do we have to do in order to move on? This is a question being asked with increasing frequency by businesses, organisations and the public at large, and one ...
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Democratised Manufacturing
Say goodbye to traditional factories, but not just yet. The end is near and very real, and may be nearer than we think according to some experts, particularly if we ...
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The butterfly of innovation
Innovation is possible, also and above all starting from the simple things. After all the apparently simplest innovations have often opened up the way to unpredictable approaches. There are no ...
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Innovating is possible
It’s easy to say it will take innovation for businesses, and for the economy in general, to change their fate. But these words need to be followed by action. We ...
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Strategic Leadership Can Be Learned
All challenges that organisations and individuals face each and every day require us to make a change in outlook, a qualitative shift or otherwise take things to the next level. ...
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Factory Tales
The factory is life. A life full of workers and executives, battles and conquests, conflict and collaboration. The factory – manufacturing – doesn’t just produce things, but also sensations, sounds, ...
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Little big firms
Small firms, the very small ones, so-called microenterprises, nevertheless tackle major competitors. A little like David against Goliath, there are thousands of businesses of this type which, in some way, ...
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Life stories, corporate stories
Every firm is a story to be told, a collection of past lives which should be known. In every case and above all when these are innovating firms which have ...
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