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15/09/2024 - Leadership nowadays: new perspectives and practices
An interesting, in depth and well articulated report on the key characteristics of that organizational leadership needs to work on and put into practice today...(MIT Sloan Report)
09/09/2024 - Strategic Planning needs to be reestablished as a lever for progress, yet it foundations need to be revised
Strategic Planning is needed in order to shape a foreseeable organizational future, not everything can be left to chance because of the consistent changes that surround us. Yet the foundations and...
02/09/2024 - Sources of wisdom for leaders in the age of AI
Organizational leadership is nowadays more relevant than ever and its driving sources are more fundamental than ever in driving lasting sustainable change.(Inc. article)
27/08/2024 - The Openess lever of emotionally intelligent people
Openness in relations is a powerful tool to ensure proper reciprocal understanding: openness needs to be implemented properly, based upon specific factors...(Inc. article)
11/08/2024 - The actual development of people in organizations is a topic more relevant than ever...
Aside from all the technological developments that appear to be at the foundation of organizational growth and development yet in practical terms the essence of it all relates to identifying and...
07/08/2024 - The CEO role, leadership and succession dynamics
The role of a CEO (for small or or large organizations) consist in its essence in establishing a context of growth of development sustainable in the mid to long term. This requires the development...
04/08/2024 - New perspectives on factors that make organizations healthy
Healthy organizations are characterized by some key factors that are increasingly evident, quite often are traditional organizational factors of development that are perceived and utilized under new...
03/08/2024 - The wisdom leverage to individual and organizational progress across generations
Knowledge is the key aspect for individual and organizational progress, yet within consistent context of change that requires rapid effective decision making often on the basis of limited reliable...
28/07/2024 - The challenges and opportunities in managing Generation Z
Generation Z is by now notoriously the one that presents characteristics that appear the toughest one to manage, at times it appears impossible to make sense of what is actually happening and what...
25/07/2024 - Organizational innovation: leveraging on open and closed ecosystems
Innovation is about openness and teamwork, even history (beyond superficial stereotypes) show it. These kind of dynamics relate to the inner and outer organizational system as this article...
18/07/2024 - The curiosity leverage driving our thinking actions...
Often we are brought to think that we are driven by fear, this interesting research shows that curiosity is instead a key natural healthy driver to thinking and action. The more we focus on it...
14/07/2024 - Designing Reskilling programs
Reskilling programs represent nowadays a concrete practical way to ensure organizational development and effectiveness. It is essential to set them efficiently and effectively. This interesting...
07/07/2024 - Innovation in automotive connecting tradition and the future: Ford Motor Company and the Michigan Central Project
Ford Motor Company has developed a project that values the tradition of the company and projects them into the future of the field that requires consistent innovation...(Fast Company article)
05/07/2024 - Intuition as driving force of decision making
Intuition is a driving force of decision making, mostly within volatile environments. Dr.Gary Klein work has been seminal within this topic and it has been made popular years ago through his book...
03/07/2024 - Leadership key factor: knowing how to ask the right questions
Effective leadership within change pivots upon a key factor: knowing how to ask the right questions...(Fast Company article)
23/06/2024 - Talent and hard work dynamics ...
Talent alone is not sufficient for success, at the same time, hard work alone neither makes the cut for concrete aimed affirmation. A mix of both is essential to fulfil potentials and it all starts...
21/06/2024 - Riccardo Paterni, representing RPM, as judge panelist of the 5th edition TACC UniMoRe program
TACC stays for "Training for Automotive Companies Creation", it is an international post graduate program created and managed by UniMoRe (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). The program has...
14/06/2024 - Power, influence and the dynamics of successions
The topic of organizational leadership succession is more relevant than ever for organizations large and small: more than ever it is essential to have an operational vision for the future within...
09/06/2024 - At the historic inspiring roots of Lego innovation
The history of Lego, its roots and developments, are a powerful example of what generates and feeds innovation across time, technical and economic sectors. It can be a powerful reference for change...
06/06/2024 - A perspective on AI: reaching a developemt bottleneck ?
This is article features an interesting perspective on AI current developments pointing out that a development bottleneck might be next and it is all linked to AI needing to learn from humans in...
04/06/2024 - BlackBerry story, a movie about a insightful case study of innovation, business and technology
Before the smartphone BlackBerry was the communication innovation that conquered the international market. This movie tells masterfully its story and parabole in a dramatic/satirical way. Lots of...
01/06/2024 - The Classics Forum : source of powerful meanings also above and beyond the industry
It was a pleasure to attend this forum masterfully organized by Camillo Mekacher-Vogel and Michele Bertoncello : meaningful insights have been elaborated and presented through a smart active...
26/05/2024 - When and how art becomes a leverage to business development
Within a global business environment increasingly complex and changing, art can become a relevant lever towards problem solving and opportunity identification...(Harvard Business Review article)
21/05/2024 - Purpose over profit: the driver to sustainable organizational progress and growth...
The traditional focus on profit for growth is increasingly pragmatically shifting towards a focus on on organizational purpose and it uniquess. This is the real leverage to sustainable growth in the...
16/05/2024 - Performance management that puts people first, a perspective
Performance and the objectivization of it, is at the basis of the sustainable growth of any organization. It is fundamental to realise that, no matter the technological advancements, people are still...
26/04/2024 - Renovation and a new unique menu at Café Elba in Alibag
We are happy to announce that our Cafè Elba in Alibag just completed a renovation set to step-up the Italian Flair that has characterized the place since its opening: great food and peace...
17/04/2024 - Riccardo Paterni leads a training path to safety improvement driven by awareness, communication and leadership at Sofidel Spain SL
Safety is the objective number one for Sofidel Group and in order to keep improving safety targets across the entire organization (spreading across Europe and United States) Riccardo has...
14/04/2024 - AI and professional creativity in action, new fields under rapid developments
Artificial Intelligence is more than ever a key factor to the development and growth of several fields and within the creative one (relative to several sectors) AI can represent a powerful tool...
11/04/2024 - Barriers to effective top talent management and how to overcome them
Identifying, nurturing and managing top talent is a key factor relevant to the sustainability and growth of small to large organisations alike. There are some key factors that represent barriers to...
04/04/2024 - Synergy Pathways, spring 2024 action time in Italy: several business development meetings for Samit and Riccardo
Samit has traveled to Italy from March 23rd through April 4th and we have been having several meetings in various geographical areas of Italy on business projects linking India to Italy at several...
24/03/2024 - Effective delegating as business owners
As business owners one of the most powerful and yet most difficult to use levers for growth is the one of delegating. This article highlights some key insights on the topic ...(Entrepreneur article)
10/03/2024 - The dynamics of the global job market by country: what industry hires the most
Job markets are changing rapidly across the globe; it is interesting to note what kind of dynamics feed and consolidate such changes per country from a global perspective ...(VisualCapitalist...
05/03/2024 - How to use effective the lever of delegating
The topic of delegating effectively has become more relevant than ever because of the current and foreseeable future complexities that organizations small to large alike are set to face, this article...
20/02/2024 - The roots of leadership miscommunications when tensions are high
Times of uncertainty and change cause strains in communication; leadership communication is often tangled up in these dynamics, awareness about it can prevent the spreading of a negative impact.(HBR...
02/02/2024 - What define effective leadership today
Change, uncertainty, volatility driven by technological and geopolitical contexts and factors: all of this charactizes the environment many leader (of small to midsize and large companies alike) are...
25/01/2024 - In times of uncertainty and change 'strategic slowness' can be a lever to effective progress
We live in turbulent times characterized by change and uncertainty originating from many different sources: geopolitical, economic, financial, technological, forces regarding market dynamics. Within...
20/01/2024 - Generative AI is having already an impact on entrepreneurship development internationally
GenerativeAI is rapidly taking center stage within the strategic and operational development of companies of all seizes and belonging to all sorts of different fields; its impact on entrepreneurship...
14/01/2024 - Organizational growth an development in F1, McLaren style
Andrea Stella, McLaren F1 Team Principal, has described the organizational cultural approach he has been focusing on developing within the organizational structure since he started to manage it. Some...
07/01/2024 - Organizational trends foreseen for 2024
The last few years have witnessed events that have an international organizational social impacts and an evolution in technologies has further contributed to these processes. From the mix of these...
04/01/2024 - Riccardo Paterni has become Business Partner of SWAG OÜ
Riccardo has become business partner to the Estonian company SWAG OÜ that focuses on bitcoin, blockchain and bitcoin mining; from a multicultural and organizational and individual...
23/12/2023 - Happy Holidays and a Prosperous 2024!
21/12/2023 - Strategy for SMEs in a new book developed within Synergy Pathways (Italian edition)
17/12/2023 - Gen X and the way it is going to shape work in 2024
Gen X is increasingly present and taking charge of workplaces on a global scale, its impact is manyfold and bound to be lasting...(AllWork article)
16/12/2023 - The future of work: leveraging on the informal
The future of work, shaped by market, organizational and generational dynamics, is bound to leverage increasingly on a key aspect: the ability to leverage on the informal to push forward...
10/12/2023 - Organizational growth is driven by strategy rather than by technology
Quite often we see technology as a key driver to organizational growth, rather, in practical terms strategy is the key aspect that is needed to channel and utilize at best developing technology to...
05/12/2023 - Strategy execution, its pitfalls
The execution of an organizational strategy is always a key factor of growth and it is essential to avoid some pitfalls that undermine its reach ...(Harvard Business Review article)
26/11/2023 - A new paradigm for a connected world...
Many variables and events on a global level have contributed to shape new powerful dynamics that shape the way the wold is connected and determines the way business development is carried and will be...
15/11/2023 - Riccardo Paterni interviewed together with the other RPM board members regarding RPM Motorsport Network
The Italian magazine "Imprenditori" (Entrepreneurs) published by RPM member Kaiti Expansion on the October 2023 issue a dossier on RPM Motorsport Network on occasion of the Futurmotive Expo...
12/11/2023 - Happy Diwali !
Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year from all of us at Synergy Pathways and Cafe' Elba!
02/11/2023 - Future trends 2024, an overview
These are some key trends that are going to shape, from an economic, social and organizational point of view, 2024...(Forbes article)