Guest post by Stephanie Haywood of My Life Boost What to RememberQuick Facts TableHow to Begin (Checklist)Expanding Your EducationFAQ: What People Commonly AskStep-by-Step: Building Toward a CareerResource Drop — Tools & InspirationSpotlight: Useful Product Highlight Technology isn’t just an industry anymore — it’s the backbone of everything from healthcare to art, from logistics to space … Continue reading Navigating a Career in IT and Computer Science: A Practical Guide for Curious Minds
How Expanding Your Education Can Power the Growth of Your Small Business
Guest post by Stephanie Haywood of My Life Boost Running a small business often starts with grit, but it grows with strategy. Whether you're just launching or scaling an existing venture, investing in your own education can unlock new momentum. This doesn’t mean going back to school full-time or drowning in certifications. Instead, it’s about … Continue reading How Expanding Your Education Can Power the Growth of Your Small Business
How Small Businesses Can Integrate AI: Benefits, Challenges, and Smart Strategies
Guest post by Stephanie Haywood of My Life Boost Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a buzzword—it’s a working tool reshaping how businesses operate, communicate, and grow. For small business owners especially, AI presents both incredible opportunity and real friction. You’re not dealing with unlimited budgets or entire departments dedicated to transformation. You’re managing payroll, … Continue reading How Small Businesses Can Integrate AI: Benefits, Challenges, and Smart Strategies
Engineer ≠ Ingegnere
Technically, the Italian word corresponding to engineer is ingegnere. However, there is a profound, structural difference between the two profiles, even though the etymology is clearly the same, given the morphological similarity1. Unfortunately, this similarity often leads to misunderstandings, as it is believed that the two qualifications are essentially the same, regardless of the country … Continue reading Engineer ≠ Ingegnere
Planning
As "in the long run we are all dead", don't spend too much time or effort on long-term planning. Focus on the short- and mid-term instead. Credits Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
Privatizing profits and socializing losses, again!
2024 (expected)202320222021Net income [billion €]8.318.616.814.2Source: https://eulerpool.com/en/stock/Stellantis-Stock-NL00150001Q9/NetIncome The table at the top of this post shows Stellantis NV's net income for the last four years. Overall, we are talking about 57.9 billion euros, a large part of which was distributed as dividends. Nevertheless, a few days ago, the company's CEO resigned. Officially, this is because he … Continue reading Privatizing profits and socializing losses, again!
Company management
"The fundamental rules of company management" page is online. Credits Featured image Campaign Creators on Unsplash.
“My personal Project Leading vademecum” is online
I just published this new page: My personal Project Leading vademecum. Credits Photo by Thirdman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-group-of-people-with-their-hands-together-5583258/.
Business Skills that Translate to the Rest of Your Life
Creating your own business is a fantastic way to put yourself in the driver’s seat of your own career. Many people find that, once they start to work for themselves, the thought of going back to traditional employment gets pretty unappealing. After all, there’s nothing like having complete control over where your future goes. However, … Continue reading Business Skills that Translate to the Rest of Your Life
Are You Looking for a Salary or What?
In this post, I discussed how it can be difficult for my generation to talk to millennials and Gen Z-ers, especially in regards to work-related matters. I had the chance to confront such communication issues again in this other post, where I focused on the recruiting process of Millennials. Now I would like to make … Continue reading Are You Looking for a Salary or What?
Communication and Employer Branding: How Employers and Applicants Switched Roles in the Internet Era
Last September, I had a thought-provoking meeting with a representative of what I call a "social recruiting company". I use this expression because this company—which I will refer to as SRC for convenience—exploits a social media-like communication approach to implement an innovative and ingenious business model. By the way, it was clear from the start … Continue reading Communication and Employer Branding: How Employers and Applicants Switched Roles in the Internet Era
Merciless Time Management: How Managing and Aging Affected My Ordinary Life
In this previous post, I talked thoroughly about the efficient use of resources at my workplace. What I stated there is also true for the scarce resource par excellence, time. Being precious, I started to make careful use of my time several years ago. I wanted to manage my time as well as I had … Continue reading Merciless Time Management: How Managing and Aging Affected My Ordinary Life
Losing the Edge
Manager: a professional who achieves set objectives by organizing other people's work. Recently, I had an interesting conversation about management with my good friend, Matteo. Specifically, we discussed the role of the technical manager in modern companies. Matteo has a deep technical background and is a great engineer. Currently, he is experiencing a stage of … Continue reading Losing the Edge
The Art of Trading Off: How Engineering Has Affected My Ordinary Life
In this post, I talked about the creative side of engineering. Surprisingly, that is not the only one. In a nutshell, this is what engineering is all about: https://youtu.be/egWvQuT5TCU Simply put, you have to achieve a technical goal with a set of available resources (time, people, money, etc.) and within a deadline. That's it. Most … Continue reading The Art of Trading Off: How Engineering Has Affected My Ordinary Life
Teamwork and communication
In 2016 I attended a course about the communication strategies in politics. Although it dealt with some specific techniques used in this context, the basic mechanisms it illustrated are valid for the communication in general. The course was held by a mental coach who has specialized to work with politicians and work/sports teams. Therefore, I took … Continue reading Teamwork and communication
Sharing meetings
Managing a team to work effectively and efficiently is one of the most common problems that managers have to face and I am no exception, as I currently work as R&D Director. Effectiveness and efficiency of working teams are probably some of the most studied and debated issues in the field of management theory. [1] … Continue reading Sharing meetings
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