There are two kinds of lies: the unconscious ones and those that are built to provide a falsified version of facts and circumstances. Today I want to tell you about the second ones, beginning with the definition of a lie. A lie is a statement that does not correspond to facts and circumstances made to […]

The cartoon strip is freely inspired by a quote from poet Maya Angelou. A thought that reminds us that kindness, respect for people and empathy add quality to the building of personal relationships and the lives of each of us. Things that people with business management responsibilities should also remember. What do you think?

How many times have you felt subtle disappointment or even anger when someone said, “I told you so”? Yes, because the person who says “I told you so…” gives you the feeling to be sure to have correctly interpreted a particular situation, predicting its development; as you obviously did not. You, of what was happening, […]

Do you know what micromanagement is? It is a management style by which a manager closely monitors the performance of staff members, going into the smallest details. Like what happens in the cartoon, where I depicted the explosive mixture of micromanagement and short memory. Are there specific behaviours or situations that allow us to identify […]

Listen to what Ennio Flaiano wrote in 1969 in Il Corriere della Sera about stupidity: Stupidity has made enormous progress. It is a Sun that cannot be watched fixedly. Thanks to the media, it is not even the same anymore, it feeds on other myths, it sells itself a lot, it has made fun of […]

What does this test consist of? First of all, let me ask you a question: Do you usually accept feedback from people who work with you? I am not talking about your boss, but rather about colleagues and staff members with whom you share the workday. I’m sure you do! But if you want to […]

Who is a parvenu? Dictionaries agree to define it as a person who has acquired a superior economic and social status without adapting to the manners of the new context. In most countries the man in power, who inevitably aspires to charismatic leadership, is too often a parvenu. We can define him as a person who […]

More and more often we encounter situations in which we need to call on experts, that is, people with knowledge and experience in a specific topic, superior to the ones we can rely on as an individual, group or organization. In my experience, ascertaining whether we are actually in the presence of an expert in […]

Resistance to change will probably be the main issue that people with leadership and management responsibilities in the companies will be facing in the near future (and not only in the near…). Why? Over the past three decades, the world has moved faster and faster, forcing companies to face rapidly evolving scenarios with ever-changing strategic […]

I think we can share the idea that listening is an essential function of communication that multimedia has substantially damaged, because we are systematically urged to devote attention to more than one thing at the same time. Is this all the smartphone’s fault? Absolutely not, because long-standing habits affect listening skills perhaps more profoundly than […]