Why this blog
My name is Arduino Mancini and this is my blog; it stems from the experience I gained over many years of working in organisations, initially as a manager and later as a Business & Executive Coach.
A blog that helps you work within complexity, not simplify it.
This is not a place for theories or easy solutions: you won’t find a collection of “how-to” guides.
My aim is not to offer you ready-made answers, but to present perspectives that will help you rethink what you might take for granted.
The articles are based on real-world experience, gained through working in complex organisational contexts, dealing with real-life decisions and supporting individual and team development journeys.
What you’ll find here
The contents I offer you do not simplify reality, but help you read it so that you can deal with it:
- food for thought on tackling difficult situations and decisions;
- insights into organisational dynamics and ideas for managing complexity;
- common mistakes in managerial and professional contexts, and ways to address them;
- practical approaches to leadership development and personal growth.
The blog is aimed at both those who lead people and those who wish to grow in their roles and build a solid professional foundation over time, addressing change and complexity.
Tools for your development
Alongside the articles, the blog provides practical tools for your work — coaching, training, books, films and eLearning courses — which are used as effective drivers, not merely as supplementary contents.
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After careful reflection, I have concluded that repeated use of complaining can only be convenient for most people working in organizations. Let’s look at the reasons together: complaining keeps people out of your way who, when they meet you, sooner or later say “Blessed are you”, inferring that you don’t deserve what you have; your […]
Here's when thinking before acting can prove useful...
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 […]
How many times did they tell you?
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, […]
Here are 5 clues that will help you!
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 has to say about it.
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 […]
Because in most cases they are parvenus! Want to know more?
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 […]
Seven good rules will help you!
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 […]
Here's what I learned by working as a manager and as a coach!
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 […]
