Mens Et Opera - Reloaded

The following is (part of) an email we sent to some American friends: [...]Let me share with you and your family what I think the deepest American needs are and what the political adequate answer is.: Economy/tax. We do not need a state that controls our personal finances, but rather promote them and assure the conditions where we - as a society - can play our part. It's called Welfare Society. In actual fact it means tax release, free market promotion and private property protection. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir! Life. We do not need a state that intervenes with our personal matters. Life is too important to be manipulated by political ideology. Life comes first, protected and untouchable. Issues like Abortion, Euthanasia are too important to be held in the hands of the state. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir! Islam We don't need a state that bows down to Islam. They made the first move. They are the ones who hate our liberty, hate our wealth, our capa

First thing: a good product. Well, now some "spice": 1. The pizza maker: just use his spare time going around the tables cheerfully chatting with the diners 2. Location, just adjacent to a top-market restaurant. Top-class people like to break the routine 3. Few outdoor tables, no queue (in/out), no reservation, no ads, no frills: just pizza and some delicious entrees 4. A clear vision: I work for people who can spread the idea . Wow! I will! That's Lucio Pizzeria in Sydney. It's worth trying it out. Is it a purple cow ? Maybe not, pizza is just an invisible product. But Lucio is on the right track turning a simple pizzeria into a "must-try". I guess people go there dragged by the good pizza and return to share with Lucio his brilliant idea. Friendly. It'll catch on.

yes, I'm...but I see a huge misunderstanding here. A plain example: writing communciation. Keep your line of thought consistent, focused and logical . That's it. I can use a wide range of words to restate some concepts and in doing so I won't be consistent at all because I want to tackle (if it is the case) the concept/issue/whatever from many angles.

A very strong idea is to moderate a forum and defend G.W. Bush. No sooner said than done: http://www.storialibera.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=222 My readers are gonna plummet...or maybe not!

I was tempted to name this post "In praise of followers"* because this is exactly what I want to outline. For too long companies made it appear that leadership was the ultimate goal for a successful career, ignoring to nurture followership skills. Take a look at that article if you are interested to understand the "effective follower"...and take away the following advice: choose a great leader and follow him, sink him in , obey him and be proud of him. Your life is gonna be easy... nanos gigantum humeris insidentes ("dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants") *By Robert E. Kelley, Harvard business review, 66(6), 142 - 148

 Amo l'Italia, la mia terra, la terra di una grande civilta', dove ogni piccolo buco ha una storia e un richiamo alle nostre radici. Benvenuta la vittoria del PdL e la completa debacle di quella esiziale frangia comunista che tanto male ha fatto e continua a fare in ogni luogo della terra dove tenta di insediarsi.

Fortunately, despite all human flaws, many leaders kicked in. To some extent, it's possible to observe many beneficial traits and reason out some recurrent patterns. As I see it, a leader is dominated by two main forces: a vast skill set and knowledge and what is called "effective attitude". The first force is potentially within anybody's grasp. The latter one is what I generally refer to as the trait without a name . You can't actually create it "from nil". Yet you can pull it out, shape it and ameliorate it (assuming there is something there :-) In a previous comment I used the bones methaphor , it goes as follow: "being a leader is a matter of bones, if you got them you can put on muscles and coach them." However, not being a leader is very very convenient...check out the upcoming post.

Do you want to know why you'll never see a "true" leader in action? Let's think about the huge amount of material available and try to draw the simplest conclusion. Who will be so supernatural to incarnate those attitudes? Did you ever deeply read those publications and thought of any possible implication? Please, now think of a person who shows: passion, vision, delegation, intelligence, realism, listening, decisiveness, flexibility, and so on. Come on guys, let's be real! Not to mention who tries to sell and convince that there is a leader in you. You only need practice et voila' you wake up and say: I'm a leader! Come on guys, don't buy it. It's a gyp. My conclusion? Well, have you ever thought of that human beings are flawed? Oh yes!, good time then to start and see from a more realistic and human perspective what's going on in here :-) Stay tuned, new posts on this around the corner.