AAA Condottieri illuminati cercasi

by raffaella cardarelli | Mar 19, 2019

Quando penso all’eccellenza italiana, la mia mente torna a 10 anni fa, quando visitai per la prima volta Solomeo. Un piccolo e delizioso borgo umbro, è noto ormai in tutto il mondo perché sede di un marchio simbolo di tutto ciò che di bello e superiore l’Italia può...

Is charisma just a fraud?

by roger mitchell | Mar 11, 2019

I was never any good at English. In fact my teacher told my parents, (albeit with a breath soaked in whisky), that I would not pass my English Higher. I did, I even fluked a B, but he was actually correct. I had no feeling for the language, the style, the flow, the...

Cantona or Kante? A business lesson from sport

by roger mitchell | Feb 19, 2019

In the Reform Club sessions of our podcast, there was a lament about a lack of flair in sport, on and off the field. Now, for sure, Grant and I do have a tendency to lead our guests into discussions around Higgins, Botham, Senna, Barry John, Best, and even Charlie...

Basta. Mi licenzio!

by raffaella cardarelli | Jan 31, 2019

  Vi è mai capitato di pensare o, più concretamente, pronunciare un: “Basta. Mi licenzio!”? E vivere il “dopo” più come una liberazione, che come una preoccupazione? A me sí! 20 anni fa. Ero, molto giovane, la Responsabile Marketing di un quotidiano...

Authenticity of content

by roger mitchell | Jan 22, 2019

Sometimes your week finds a way to summarise itself at the end. Bringing together a whole load of apparently unrelated events into a theme and common thread.  This is the story of a week like that, with its fils rouge. A potpourri of stimuli coming together, thanks to...