<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763</id><updated>2009-12-26T00:16:25.720+11:00</updated><title type='text'>Mens Et Opera</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/blog.html'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/feed/atom.xml'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-7907732311948384923</id><published>2009-12-24T01:01:00.001+11:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T00:16:25.728+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><title type='text'>A thick blanket of snow enveloped Copenhagen</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;That's&amp;nbsp;hilarious and dramatic at the same time. &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt; is covered by a thick and heavy snow and the scaremongers keep annoying us about the inevitable temperature rise of the planet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Science should depend on accurate and complete data. What is being&amp;nbsp;perpetrated into the climate debate is a load of nonsense. And when facts&amp;nbsp;contradict theory, too bad for reality. &amp;nbsp;A first hand example from an email between&amp;nbsp;Professor Phil Jones and&amp;nbsp;Michael E. Mann (apparently two gurus in the climate field) :"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps&amp;nbsp;to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from&amp;nbsp;1961 for Keith's to hide the decline&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;[in temperature].&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;As any ideology, "greenology" is a real stinker and its stench is mistaken for fresh air.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-7907732311948384923?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/7907732311948384923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=7907732311948384923' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/7907732311948384923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/7907732311948384923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2009/12/thick-blanket-of-snow-enveloped.html' title='A thick blanket of snow enveloped Copenhagen'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-9070609392909147059</id><published>2009-10-06T23:17:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T23:17:08.266+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>The discontinuity theory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;There is a discontinuity point in &lt;i&gt;almost &lt;/i&gt;everything we do. Anytime we make a choice we are choosing a different path because we &lt;b&gt;believe &lt;/b&gt;that the current course of events would lead us towards a dead-end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;A "quit point", however, is more than just a mere decision point. When you quit, you are saying (and betting): "things are going well now but that won't last long because bla bla..." Bla bla is what substantiates your bet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Conversely, you also are saying (and betting):"this way is gonna land us bla bla but we are going to slog away for awhile".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/Drawing3-729304.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/Drawing3-729294.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Simple question: "why don't you quit when bad things are impending?". Easy answer: "you, your product, your service, your 'whatever you are in' will be off the market by then". You are not the smartest guy in the room.&lt;br /&gt;Second (hard) question: "what do you &lt;i&gt;properly&lt;/i&gt; mean by 'quit'?". In order to quit you have to abandon a piece of something to gain a piece of something else.&lt;br /&gt;So what are you waiting for?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-9070609392909147059?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/9070609392909147059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=9070609392909147059' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/9070609392909147059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/9070609392909147059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2009/10/discontinuity-theory.html' title='The discontinuity theory'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-3515023233377148193</id><published>2009-09-22T21:15:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2009-09-22T21:15:21.272+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Business'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>"The map is not the territory"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;One of the most remarkable concepts about creating a business, is its underlying idea and the process to translate it into reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;The idea comes from a sharp observation of reality in all its factors, this is called attitude: the most valuable asset of any successful&amp;nbsp;entrepreneur.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Then, the capacity to cut through reality to surface what is truly important to realize and what not (the latter being very tricky, indeed).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;Subsequently, the process is made of &amp;nbsp;strategy and tactics. Deal with the material you face and shape the idea accordingly. Many companies fail because of this lack of realism: great idea, deep observation and an illogical optimism: "It will work!". The majority, however, fail because of a slapdash work on the idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-top: 0em !important; text-indent: 0in !important;"&gt;A business model is just that: a model. It is not reality. An old cliche proves to be true: "the map is not the territory". Your model must emerge from a strong observation (the extent of demand or the potential to induce it) and be aligned with the tools you have (resources, people, technology).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-3515023233377148193?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/3515023233377148193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=3515023233377148193' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/3515023233377148193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/3515023233377148193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2009/09/map-is-not-territory.html' title='&quot;The map is not the territory&quot;'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-2527807314985099612</id><published>2009-04-23T07:25:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T07:30:42.162+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Project Management'/><title type='text'>Good is not enough</title><content type='html'>Any good manager knows that any project is affected by three forces: &lt;strong&gt;Cost,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Quality&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Schedule&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Any great manager knows that you can actually achieve any two of the three.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you have the guts to adamantly ask to who you report to (also a client): "which &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; do you want?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-2527807314985099612?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/2527807314985099612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=2527807314985099612' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/2527807314985099612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/2527807314985099612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2009/04/good-is-not-enough.html' title='Good is not enough'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-7491581306794388646</id><published>2008-11-03T10:00:00.001+11:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T14:59:19.512+11:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>US for freedom</title><content type='html'>The following is (part of) an email we sent to some American friends:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]Let me share with you and your family what I think the deepest American needs are and what the political adequate answer is.:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Economy/tax.&lt;/strong&gt;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! &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Life. &lt;/strong&gt;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! &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Islam &lt;/strong&gt;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 capacity to be free and to indulge in this freedom. They hate you because you are American. You as an American, are "infidel" and as such you deserve hell. 9/11 was an example of the very "hell" that they made American's face. McCain or Obama? No doubts whatsoever, Sir!  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me leave you with a quote that I found expresses the essence of the Republican address:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  "Centralized governments may care for you from cradle to grave, but they also control you. Most Americans don't want MORE government -- they want a lot less.Abraham Lincoln reminded us that &lt;strong&gt;a government that can do everything FOR us can also take everything FROM us&lt;/strong&gt;.I really tire of hearing how the Democrats care about the working guy as if all Republicans grew up with silk stockings and silver spoons.I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Huckabee at the Republican National Convention, September 3, 2008.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;God Bless America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-7491581306794388646?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/7491581306794388646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=7491581306794388646' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/7491581306794388646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/7491581306794388646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/11/us-for-freedom.html' title='US for freedom'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-2126822389289573616</id><published>2008-05-09T21:51:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T22:00:35.511+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing'/><title type='text'>Commercial break /1</title><content type='html'>First thing: a good product. Well, now some "spice":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The pizza maker: just use his spare time going around the tables cheerfully chatting with the diners&lt;br /&gt;2. Location, just adjacent to a top-market restaurant. Top-class people like to break the routine&lt;br /&gt;3. Few outdoor tables, no queue (in/out), no reservation, no ads, no frills: just pizza and some delicious entrees&lt;br /&gt;4. A clear vision: &lt;em&gt;I work for people who can spread the idea&lt;/em&gt;. Wow! I will!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's Lucio Pizzeria in Sydney. It's worth trying it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it a &lt;a href="http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/"&gt;purple cow&lt;/a&gt;? 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It'll catch on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-2126822389289573616?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/2126822389289573616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=2126822389289573616' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/2126822389289573616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/2126822389289573616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/05/commercial-break-1.html' title='Commercial break /1'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-8091661961231247253</id><published>2008-05-06T19:17:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T19:37:37.869+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Logic'/><title type='text'>Be consistent, be consistent....</title><content type='html'>yes, I'm...but I see a huge misunderstanding here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A plain example: writing communciation. &lt;strong&gt;Keep your line of thought consistent, focused and logical&lt;/strong&gt;. That's it.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-8091661961231247253?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/8091661961231247253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=8091661961231247253' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/8091661961231247253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/8091661961231247253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/05/be-consistent-be-consistent.html' title='Be consistent, be consistent....'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-8073760970912104712</id><published>2008-04-23T07:01:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T14:38:57.868+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leadership'/><title type='text'>The ultimate follower</title><content type='html'>I was tempted to name this post "In praise of followers"* because this is exactly what I want to outline.&lt;br /&gt;For too long companies made it appear that leadership was the ultimate goal for a successful career, ignoring to nurture followership skills.&lt;br /&gt;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, &lt;em&gt;sink him in&lt;/em&gt;, obey him and be proud of him.&lt;br /&gt;Your life is gonna be easy...&lt;em&gt;nanos gigantum humeris insidentes &lt;/em&gt;("dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*By Robert E. Kelley, Harvard business review, 66(6), 142 - 148&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-8073760970912104712?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/8073760970912104712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=8073760970912104712' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/8073760970912104712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/8073760970912104712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/04/ultimate-follower.html' title='The ultimate follower'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-5921460538911309113</id><published>2008-04-15T23:12:00.003+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-16T14:22:53.959+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Politics'/><title type='text'>Il cielo e' di nuovo azzurro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/flagItaly-703449.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/flagItaly-703447.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;Benvenuta la vittoria del PdL e la completa &lt;em&gt;debacle&lt;/em&gt; di quella esiziale frangia comunista che tanto male ha fatto e continua a fare in ogni luogo della terra dove tenta di insediarsi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-5921460538911309113?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/5921460538911309113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=5921460538911309113' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5921460538911309113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5921460538911309113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/04/il-cielo-e-di-nuovo-azzurro.html' title='Il cielo e&apos; di nuovo azzurro'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-3088495944710969055</id><published>2008-04-10T20:05:00.002+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T23:42:09.741+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leadership'/><title type='text'>Bones and muscles</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I see it, a leader is dominated by two main forces: a vast skill set and knowledge and what is called "effective attitude".&lt;br /&gt;The first force is potentially within anybody's grasp.&lt;br /&gt;The latter one is what I generally refer to as the &lt;em&gt;trait without a name&lt;/em&gt;. You can't actually create it "from nil". Yet you can pull it out, shape it and ameliorate it (assuming there is something there :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a previous &lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/05/formazione.html"&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; I used the &lt;em&gt;bones methaphor&lt;/em&gt;, it goes as follow: "being a leader is a matter of bones, if you got them you can put on muscles and coach them."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, not being a leader is very very convenient...check out the upcoming post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-3088495944710969055?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/3088495944710969055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=3088495944710969055' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/3088495944710969055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/3088495944710969055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/04/bones-and-muscles.html' title='Bones and muscles'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-5877566174183582304</id><published>2008-04-08T18:19:00.006+10:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T17:19:01.673+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leadership'/><title type='text'>Leaders for sale</title><content type='html'>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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who will be so &lt;em&gt;supernatural&lt;/em&gt; to incarnate those attitudes? Did you ever deeply read those publications and thought of any possible implication?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, now think of a person who shows: passion, vision, delegation, intelligence, realism, listening, decisiveness, flexibility, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;Come on guys, let's be real!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to mention who tries to sell and convince that there is a leader in you. You only need practice &lt;em&gt;et voila' &lt;/em&gt;you wake up and say: I'm a leader!&lt;br /&gt;Come on guys, don't buy it. It's a gyp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;human&lt;/em&gt; perspective what's going on in here :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned, new posts on this around the corner.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-5877566174183582304?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/5877566174183582304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=5877566174183582304' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5877566174183582304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5877566174183582304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2008/04/leaders-for-sale.html' title='Leaders for sale'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-5816610243388915083</id><published>2007-06-08T22:24:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-08T22:57:16.072+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leadership'/><title type='text'>Free flow of meaning</title><content type='html'>Trying to define what makes a real project manager, very often we tend to list many characteristics that a leader should have without categorizing them at all.&lt;br /&gt;I came across one of those lists during a course and the first thought that sprang to my mind was: from where do they originate? What lies behind them?&lt;br /&gt;I thought the couple IQ/EQ might be useful here. I’m not pretty convinced about the outright effectiveness of this method for quantifying our intelligence however, we have no valuable alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;Let’s have a look at the following quadrant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/IQ-EQ-721570.JPG" border="0" /&gt;One dimension is EQ (emotional quotient) and the other is IQ (intelligence quotient).&lt;br /&gt;EQ is a measure of how well we can get in contact with people, openly and candidly. It is our &lt;em&gt;personal prosperity&lt;/em&gt; that works to advantage for every single person involved in our project. It is easy now to put under this category a bunch of characteristics.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, IQ is a measure of how effectively we can critically examine our EQ! It balances our gut instinct with data, figures and realism. It is the attitude to thinking systematically, how much intellectual rigor we apply in working out problems.&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, the "free flow of meaning" is not simply the sum of them. It reminds me the concept of holism but let’s stop here :-) -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;For my Italian readers, see my previous post on the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/archive/2005_10_01_mensetopera_archive.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;leadership&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-5816610243388915083?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/5816610243388915083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=5816610243388915083' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5816610243388915083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/5816610243388915083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2007/06/free-flow-of-meaning.html' title='Free flow of meaning'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-133435055142583031</id><published>2007-03-08T23:41:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:37:21.821+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miscellaneous'/><title type='text'>Down Land Under</title><content type='html'>Based in Sydney, finally.  I'll try to get buried here...:-))&lt;br /&gt;Posts are going to be in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really good job!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wish me luck guys!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-133435055142583031?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/133435055142583031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=133435055142583031' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/133435055142583031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/133435055142583031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2007/03/down-land-under.html' title='Down Land Under'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-116853534006375100</id><published>2007-02-07T03:07:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:36:37.283+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economics'/><title type='text'>Flat Tax</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/scissors-736313.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 55px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 44px" height="97" alt="" src="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/scissors-728494.jpg" width="59" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ne avete mai sentito parlare? Spero proprio di sì. In fondo è un metodo semplice con un significato eco-nomico/logico molto profondo.&lt;br /&gt;Vi racconto un piccolo episodio: qualche mese fa, un ottimo manager e certamente una persona che un po' stimo, entra nel mio ufficio mettendosi alla lavagna e disegnandomi la necessità morale della &lt;strong&gt;progressività delle tasse &lt;/strong&gt;con tanto di curve chiarificatorie e un pathos tale che se non fossi carico di anticorpi, mi avrebbe certamente fatto cadere nella trappola. Mi spiegava che le tasse dovevano seguire la progressività, era un principio morale: chi più guadagna deve essere soggetto ad una tassazione maggiore in maniera progressiva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esistono fortunatamente delle alternative altrettanto "morali" e la flat tax credo vi appartenga a pieno titolo. Prima di esporne i concetti basilari però, ritengo utile richiamare l'obiettivo di una sana politica fiscale, obiettivo naturalmente che da molti è bollato come "conservatore", "capitalista", e via appioppando (so bene che anche dall'altro lato gli epiteti non mancano ma, per quanto mi riguarda, sono fuori da queste guerre ideologiche). Dunque credo che obiettivo fondamentale di una sana politica economico-fiscale sia quella di &lt;strong&gt;arginare con tutti i mezzi possibili dal mercato il potere dello Stato &lt;/strong&gt;favorendo una tensione all'equilibrio che nasca dal mercato stesso.&lt;br /&gt;La flat tax è un ottimo sistema di tassazione (anche noto come &lt;strong&gt;proporzionalità delle tasse&lt;/strong&gt;) utile al raggiungimento di questo fine e che, se ben gestita, semplificherebbe in maniera significativa il codice tributario. Infatti aliquote ridotte minimizzano la distorsione dei prezzi operata da un intervento statalista e massimizzano nel contempo gli incentivi individuali.&lt;br /&gt;Proverò semplicemente a descriverne per punti alcune sue peculiarità e rimandando chi volesse approfondire ai riferimenti in coda (e non wikipedia!!!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;questo tipo di tassazione si fonda sui principi economici del &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;supply-side&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;e tra questi forse il più importante è quello che riguarda gli incentivi individuali, ovvero il principio secondo il quale lo Stato dovrebbe tendere alla riduzione dell'imposizione fiscale consentendo alle persone di trattenere più soldi e quindi investire di più facendo "girare" l'economia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ogni reddito è tassato una sola volta (&lt;strong&gt;equality&lt;/strong&gt;). Questo significa che esiste una sola aliquota che si applica al reddito (si può calibrare questa aliquota per determinare il gettito)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;esiste una base imponibile da cui partire. Questo è un dato variabile da Paese a Paese&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;l'effettiva tassa da pagare su un aumento di reddito (a partire dalla base imponibile) è quindi proporzionale al reddito. Qualcuno definisce questo fatto come la quintessenza dell'equità&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ogni reddito è tassato indipendentemente dalla sua sorgente o da come è speso (&lt;strong&gt;neutrality&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I vantaggi in semplicità, economicità (abbattendo gli inutili costi di gestione. In America è stato calcolato un aumento del 5% del PIL dovuto alla efficienza della flat-tax) e trasparenza (che indurrebbe a ridurre l'evasione e la corruzione) sono difficilmente confutabili.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;E' e rimane comunque un argomento controverso. Per farsene un'idea consiglio le seguenti letture:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://brunoleoni.servingfreedom.net/OP/11_Rabushka.pdf"&gt;Rabushka - Le virtù della Flat Tax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/BG1134.cfm"&gt;Flat Tax or Sales Tax? A Win-Win Choice For America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adamsmith.org/pdf/flattax.pdf"&gt;Flat Tax - the British case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://brunoleoni.servingfreedom.net/OP/2_Martino.pdf"&gt;Federalismo Fiscale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://phastidio.net/2005/09/02/contro-la-flat-tax/"&gt;Contro la flat-tax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-116853534006375100?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/116853534006375100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=116853534006375100' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116853534006375100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116853534006375100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2007/01/flat-tax.html' title='Flat Tax'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-116281409113308797</id><published>2006-12-09T06:15:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:35:28.827+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><title type='text'>Problem vs Solution</title><content type='html'>Pare che Einstein abbia affermato che &lt;em&gt;occorre il 95% del tempo per definire il problema e il 5% per trovare le soluzioni&lt;/em&gt;. Considerando la fonte autorevole e senza voler spaccare il capello in quattro, qualche perplessità di applicazione generale però forse vale la pena affrontare nella perfetta consapevolezza che la definizione esatta del problema (in tutti gli ambiti) è un'attività con un ROI elevatissimo (ma forse non sempre proporzionale al tempo e alle energie impiegate per la sua definizione).&lt;br /&gt;Innanzitutto in termini di &lt;strong&gt;costi&lt;/strong&gt;. E' praticamente impensabile pensare di investire il 95% del tempo e del denaro per definire il problema. Vi sono delle attività ove queste proporzioni sono semplicemente inapplicabili.&lt;br /&gt;Poi credo che vi siano delle &lt;strong&gt;soluzioni davvero difficili&lt;/strong&gt; e che richiedono un proporzionale tempo realizzativo. Trovare ad esempio una giusta architettura ove tutti i termini del problema sono adeguatamente realizzati è un lavoro che ha la sua complessità intrinseca che nessuna percentuale a priori può smorzare.&lt;br /&gt;Empiricamente ciò che Einstein afferma non è riscontrabile sempre (anzi mi piacerebbe meglio definire quegli ambiti ove questo è esattamente vero).&lt;br /&gt;Assolutamente qui non si vuole trascurare l'importanza di una analisi adeguata del problema. Anzi ribadisco con forza il concetto: ciò che ordinariamente si trascura è pensare al problema, al modello del problema e alla sua formalizzazione. Il tempo speso per questa attività non è mai tempo perso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non sarebbe forse più realistico mantenere le due attività separate (con i relativi tempi/costi adeguati al dominio) e lasciare il loro rapporto un puro dato di reportistica utile certamente ma non per fare stime a priori?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-116281409113308797?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/116281409113308797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=116281409113308797' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116281409113308797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116281409113308797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/12/problem-vs-solution.html' title='Problem vs Solution'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-116378262393069269</id><published>2006-11-18T03:43:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:36:37.284+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economics'/><title type='text'>Milton Friedman</title><content type='html'>Parlavamo di capitalismo. Apprendo poi la notizia della morte di Milton Friedman. Mi limito a riportare due sue famose affermazioni cogliendone tutta la loro drammatica attualità.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork".&lt;/strong&gt; No comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible".&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tasse sono una forma legalizzata di camorra. Più le tasse aumentano e più diminuisce la nostra concreta libertà.&lt;br /&gt;Ho paura che molti non comprendano la portata di queste affermazioni. Per chi resta sarà molto tardi quando ci si troverà ormai privi di ogni forma di libertà e sempre più dipendenti di uno Stato che, ripeteva bene Reagan, è la bestia da affamare.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-116378262393069269?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/116378262393069269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=116378262393069269' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116378262393069269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116378262393069269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/11/milton-friedman.html' title='Milton Friedman'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-116327227607712939</id><published>2006-11-12T05:17:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:36:37.284+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Economics'/><title type='text'>Capitalismo</title><content type='html'>Il capitalismo è innanzitutto una impostazione di rettitudine nei confronti della realtà. La stortura sono le tracotanze dello Stato nell'economia (e non solo).&lt;br /&gt;Il capitalismo in potenza è generatore di benessere. Le alternative (ad oggi...) sono endemicamente generatori di povertà.&lt;br /&gt;Esportare il capitalismo nell'Europa dell'est ad esempio, è un dovere considerando anche l'inferno comunista che hanno patito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' questione di liberà (non quella giacobina con la maiuscola) che proprio perché concreta passa necessariamente anche attraverso le forme economiche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In tutti i settori temo che l'Europa (ah, anche la nostra cara Italia) sia già da tempo imbarcata su una strada fallimentare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lascio all'intelligenza di ognuno di voi la verifica di quanto espresso.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-116327227607712939?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/116327227607712939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=116327227607712939' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116327227607712939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/116327227607712939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/11/capitalismo.html' title='Capitalismo'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115721111211682957</id><published>2006-09-03T01:29:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:37:21.822+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miscellaneous'/><title type='text'>Nuovo sito</title><content type='html'>Terminata la registrazione del nuovo dominio (&lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com"&gt;www.mensetopera.com&lt;/a&gt;). Anche il blog si sposta al nuovo indirizzo: &lt;a href="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/blog.html"&gt;www.mensetopera.com/blog/blog.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115721111211682957?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115721111211682957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115721111211682957' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115721111211682957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115721111211682957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/09/nuovo-sito.html' title='Nuovo sito'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115654728345777369</id><published>2006-08-26T08:53:00.001+10:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T13:28:42.469+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><title type='text'>Astrazione</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="279" src="http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/uploaded_images/15b-757693.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;" width="420" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Oggi piacevolissima passeggiata in montagna. La costiera in tutta la sua insostituibile e &lt;em&gt;materiale&lt;/em&gt; bellezza. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nel discorrere con gli amici si è toccata la medioevale disputa sugli universali.&lt;br /&gt;A pensarci bene tutte le volte che pensiamo alle architetture, al design,... dobbiamo fare i conti con l'astrazione. Al di là di ogni precisa definizione che si può leggere, volendo porre una definizione radicale che colga tutti gli aspetti, trovo molto soddisfacente definire l'astrazione come quella &lt;strong&gt;facoltà originaria della mente che permette di ricavare dalle cose materiali conosciute attraverso i sensi (e che di per sé sono tutte individuali) gli aspetti universali che sono alla base del funzionamento della ragione&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Immediatamente ho coniugato questo a buona parte del mio lavoro e con molta soddisfazione! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115654728345777369?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115654728345777369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115654728345777369' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115654728345777369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115654728345777369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/08/astrazione.html' title='Astrazione'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115583183738973128</id><published>2006-08-18T02:14:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:37:21.823+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miscellaneous'/><title type='text'>Pubblicazioni</title><content type='html'>Sto iniziando a convertire in formato PDF gli articoli e le review che ho scritto (poche cose... ma non ho gettato la spugna!)&lt;br /&gt;Per ora sono presenti &lt;a href="http://www.esnips.com/web/mensetoperapub" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;qui&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;A fianco trovate anche il reference con rispettiva icona.&lt;br /&gt;Ho riletto con divertimento "Controllo semantico sui metodi". Praticamente non ha più nessun valore. La soluzione proposta non funziona più! (nella description del file ho inserito il perché).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Restano ancora da caricarne altri tre, pubblicati su Computer Programming:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dependency Inversion Principle, n. 138, 2004&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oggetti Immutabili, n.139, 2004&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Resource Sharing, n.141, 2004&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Please rate them!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115583183738973128?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115583183738973128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115583183738973128' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115583183738973128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115583183738973128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/08/pubblicazioni.html' title='Pubblicazioni'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115514180810447475</id><published>2006-08-12T03:35:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-08-11T21:01:33.526+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT'/><title type='text'>Brooks on Design!</title><content type='html'>Ho ascoltato con vivo interesse un intervento di Fred Brooks all'università del North Carolina.&lt;br /&gt;Non tutto condivisibile ma prezioso e divertente.&lt;br /&gt;Potete scaricare il file da &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.cs.nps.navy.mil/DistanceEducation/online.siggraph.org/2001/SpecialSessions/2000TuringLecture-DesignOfDesign/" target="_blank"&gt;qui.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho notato con piacere che Fred Brooks attribuisce al designer (al &lt;em&gt;great designer&lt;/em&gt;) un ruolo attivo e non un mero scrivano (vedi precedente &lt;a href="http://mensetopera.blogspot.com/2005/12/il-cliente-non-ha-sempre-ragione.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Il designer deve saper cogliere &lt;em&gt;cosa&lt;/em&gt; costruire (dando per scontato che poi sappia anche il &lt;em&gt;come&lt;/em&gt;) e quindi aiutare il cliente a capire ciò di cui necessita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buon ascolto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115514180810447475?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115514180810447475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115514180810447475' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115514180810447475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115514180810447475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/08/brooks-on-design.html' title='Brooks on Design!'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115463627821085295</id><published>2006-08-04T05:51:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T01:41:23.436+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT'/><title type='text'>Framework</title><content type='html'>Due mesi spesi insieme al team a lavorare ad un progetto vincolato tecnologicamente (e commercialmente) ad un framework roboante, farraginoso e pretestuoso. Non intendo rivelarne il nome anche perché i suoi limiti sono comuni a quelli di molti altri framework (ma se non provvederanno a riscriverlo ne sentirete presto parlare come di un clamoroso flop).&lt;br /&gt;I limiti dunque. Lasciando da parte le scelte architetturali (comprese tra l'altro molto tempo dopo) e concentriamoci sulla documentazione. Questa per un buon 80% è fatta a "libreria", ovvero in maniera descrittiva sono riportati tutti i metodi con relativa &lt;em&gt;short description&lt;/em&gt;. Serve a ben poco perché ad istinto i developer provavano a piegare le funzionalità del framework dentro al loro framework mentale, quello cioè a cui sono abituati a lavorare. Nessuna indicazione sulle scelte architetturali, di come affrontare problemi ricorrenti che il framework dovrebbe risolvere in maniera più semplice (altrimenti a che serve). Niente. Nada.&lt;br /&gt;Solo una accozzaglia di metodi da richiamare con una serie di dipendenze non documentate e fonte di frustrazioni per l'intero team.&lt;br /&gt;Per il caso particolare, da buoni informatici ci auguriamo l'estinzione (o una buona ristrutturazione, ma da mani diverse...:-)) perché non è solo una questione documentale ma questa quando è fatta con i piedi è indice che sotto sotto c'è qualcos'altro, e infatti...&lt;br /&gt;Non è una ripicca, ne vale il tempo di altri colleghi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115463627821085295?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115463627821085295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115463627821085295' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115463627821085295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115463627821085295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/08/framework.html' title='Framework'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-115063945519339705</id><published>2006-06-18T23:35:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-26T13:37:21.824+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miscellaneous'/><title type='text'>Lavoro</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;Perché Mens et Opera?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rispondo volentieri, andando alla radice e senza astrazioni affinché poi qualcuno possa autonomamente &lt;em&gt;cogliere&lt;/em&gt; il passaggio al proprio lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Innanzitutto: il lavoro è costrutto intellettuale, implica la libera e non faticosa iniziativa del lavoro del pensiero: atto cioè attivo a mobilitare, propiziare altri al proprio beneficio (domanda).&lt;br /&gt;E il pensiero è lavoro senza fatica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il lavoro è legge fisica, è moto cioè investimento, è l'impresa della soddisfazione che mette in &lt;em&gt;moto&lt;/em&gt; un altro a favore del soggetto operante - divisione del lavoro. Questo genera domande a titolo pieno (ma non ci sono domande che non siano anche offerte). Il lavoro non-lavoro è l’obiezione di principio alla produzione del proprio bene per mezzo della soddisfazione data a un altro. Si chiama invidia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il lavoro libero (quello testé definito) ammette riposo non come dopolavoro, ma come già interno al lavoro stesso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da qui quel &lt;em&gt;mens et opera&lt;/em&gt; (o viceversa).&lt;br /&gt;***La forma con cui ho espresso qui il mio pensiero è un debito al lavoro prodotto da G.B. Contri&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-115063945519339705?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/115063945519339705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=115063945519339705' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115063945519339705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/115063945519339705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/06/lavoro.html' title='Lavoro'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-114719329912778070</id><published>2006-05-25T03:47:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T15:32:38.929+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leadership'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT'/><title type='text'>Formazione</title><content type='html'>Di recente ho seguito una serie di corsi su svariati argomenti. Quello che ho notato in maniera pressoché costante è che i trainer tendono a dare informazioni piuttosto che strumenti di reale improvement (formazione). &lt;br /&gt;Difficile che ti dicano come fare una stima, come migliorare la comunicazione, ecc. E qui siamo nel campo della tecnica, delle cose che chiunque (o quasi) può apprendere!&lt;br /&gt;Il guaio è quando poi si pretende di dare lezioni su argomenti che sollecitano la parte pre-cablata di ognuno di noi, ovvero con il tuo modo di essere. &lt;br /&gt;Nel campo della leadership, ad esempio, si omette per ingenuità (o al contrario per scaltrezza) che non tutti possono essere leader, che la leadership pesca nel modo di essere e vivere di ognuno di noi e che nessuna tecnica può mai (nell'ordinario) farci trasformare in leader vincenti (ma avete mai letto certo tipo di pubblicazione a riguardo?)&lt;br /&gt;Si possono avere dei lievi miglioramenti, aggiustamenti, limature. Mi chiedo: ma non sarebbe più onesto dire a queste persone che è meglio fare altro, valorizzarsi in altri ambiti?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-114719329912778070?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/114719329912778070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=114719329912778070' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/114719329912778070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/114719329912778070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/05/formazione.html' title='Formazione'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17442763.post-114701160611155955</id><published>2006-05-08T00:19:00.000+10:00</published><updated>2006-05-10T02:46:34.550+10:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IT'/><title type='text'>Perché Bill?</title><content type='html'>Apprendo la notizia con stupore. Nei giorni scorsi Bill Gates ha detto di sperare di non essere l'uomo più ricco del mondo.&lt;br /&gt;"Desidero non esserlo. Non c'è niente di buono che derivi da ciò", non ama l'attenzione che arriva dall'essere il più ricco del mondo.&lt;br /&gt;Tertium non datur: o è rimbecillito o continua a fare business.&lt;br /&gt;Lascio a voi fare le opportune considerazioni. &lt;br /&gt;Fatemi capire, vi prego.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17442763-114701160611155955?l=www.mensetopera.com%2Fblog%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/114701160611155955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17442763&amp;postID=114701160611155955' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/114701160611155955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17442763/posts/default/114701160611155955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.mensetopera.com/blog/2006/05/perch-bill.html' title='Perché Bill?'/><author><name>Michele Arpaia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00661675460259077845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='12880106651912902271'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry></feed>