Degree in Organizational Development, Bocconi University, Milan; Chartered Fellow, FCIPD, UK. Certified Transformational Coach, Georgetown University. Has worked in more than 70 countries. Formerly: with Citigroup, Milan, London and New York; with the International Finance Corporation, Washington DC; Director, Human Resources, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London; Chief Learning Officer, World Bank, Washington DC. Currently, Chief Human Resources Officer, World Economic Forum. Associate Professor, Hult-Ashridge (UK) and Bocconi University (Italy). Author: World Economic Forum Agenda Blog; Forbes Magazine; HBR Italia; Linkiesta magazine on themes related to career-personal development and organizational behaviour. Author of La Bussola del Successo (2016), a mix of coaching, self-improvement and business ethics. Interests: reading, travelling, Bruce Springsteen.
What can we learn from listening to more than 50 CEOs who’ve had to contend with the impact of Covid-19 with no user’s manual? What are the lessons we’ve learned? Dealing with Covid-19 is...
Every now and again you stumble upon a phrase that will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Do we need a new type of leadership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)? We have heard it many times: the 4IR is not only here to stay, but is moving faster than we thought. The re...
We’ve become accustomed to thinking that technological advances are eliminating jobs and tasks that require low-level professional qualifications. From automated toll booths to supermarke...
In the late morning of the 28 January 1986, the space shuttle Challenger took off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, only to break up midair within two minutes, and come crashing down into the A...
By the time you finish reading the next three lines, the Visa network will have processed 10 million transactions. In this second, Google is analyzing 56,000 searches that will churn out ...
The connection between stress and productivity is well known and well documented. The first study on this link dates back to 1908, when the psychologists Robert Yerkes and John Dodson dem...
Does modern society still have heroes?
Mi padre nos había prometido a mi hermana melliza y a mí que estaría en casa para nuestro primer día de clases.
My Dad made a major commitment to my twin sister and me when he promised to be there for our first day of school.
Just over 200 years, in November 1816, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, a novel which was published in London two years later.
Comencemos con una pregunta general: ¿Qué es una carrera exitosa?
First, let’s start with one over-arching question: what is a successful career?
As I am Italian, let me invite you to an Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, which was performed for the first time exactly 200 years ago in 1816, by Gioacchino Rossini. Halfway thought the o...
In 1956, William White wrote a book called “The Organization Man". It was a portrait of America that became a manifesto for the need to overturn the prevailing, conformist bureaucracy. Wh...
