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Great pictures do not require great cameras

Stefano — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:24:59 +0000

I like to take pictures, I learned to take picture few years back with a Nikon FE2 a gift from my father, it was a marvel manual (semi-automatic) camera that allowed to take pictures with some automatism in measuring light and it allowed to reduce the risk of missing the picture… I always been fascinated [...]

Sassicaia Bolgheri 2007

Stefano — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:11:04 +0000

I met in Grenoble 2 weeks ago a group of colleagues. Most of them were new to me and I had the pleasure of getting in the discovery process, when you try to find whom the people in front of you are …really.

It’s the part that I like more, breaking the ice and open yourself [...]

I’m back

Stefano — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:11:36 +0000

It has been a while….

too many things at the same time and I had to prioritize…

but I’m back and I’ll start with a little comment on my initial decision to build a blog through WordPress.

I’m more than ever convinced that this platform is so powerful and perfectly adapted to your needs evolution …

as a new [...]

Globalization and the need of experience

Stefano — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:33:27 +0000

The other day I was in a dinner organized from the Alumni Association of a well known business school. the subject with some of my classmates during dinner was around the approach used by many corporation to replace senior exucutives with younger professionals. The experience from most of the people turned to be very negative. [...]

Entrepreneurship – 10 common mistakes in start-up companies

Stefano — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:20:38 +0000

I do in my spare time some philanthropic activities with the Chamber of Commerce. I do help young entrepreneur to prepare their Business Cases and I do consultative coaching in the start-up phase of their adventure…

These are the 10 most common mistakes I serially see in those interesting meetings.

Setup the new company on [...]

Technology and life changes

Stefano — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:36:36 +0000

During the week-end I had an interesting discussion with my older son, the subject was about technology and life. He’s 11 and very demanding. It sounded interesting as a subject and so we started to explore what was different between his childhood and mine. I started explain that most of my games did involve friends, [...]

A Reference Program in Services

Stefano — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:26:05 +0000

Few years back I got a challenging task to revitalize the Reference Program for Services. In few words Sales were complaining that few deals were lost because we did not had good references. Have you ever heard that? I’ve been in Business and Marketing for more than 20 years and this has been a common [...]

Wine testing as a business lesson

Stefano — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:02 +0000

I’ve been in Italy over the weekend for a wine testing event.

I love wine, I love what it represents. I come from a family that produce wine and olive oil in Tuscany. So I have strong roots with those products. Producing wine is not difficult, anyone can transform grapes into wine through fermentation. What is difficult [...]

emails obsession

Stefano — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:17:42 +0000

Few days back, early in the morning when I logged in my email and discovered 380 new messages from the day before, I was disappointed and I left a comment in Linkedin: “where is the limit? how many emails can possibly been digested without compromising productivity???”.

It was more a spontaneous comment than a real [...]

It’s alive!!!

Stefano — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:22:08 +0000

A movie from Robin Williams “Good Morning Vietnam” was about a guy that in the middle of the war was capable of remotivate the troups with a radio program. Most probably this was a true story or at least inspirated by a real person. Whilst I was looking the empty space and I was thinking [...]