Archive for the ‘Life size’ Category

Goodbye, Cal!

Posted: May 10, 2012 in Life size

Our beautiful, big, fierce, grumpy, 14 (almost 15) years old red cat was put to sleep today because of a brain tumor. Can’t say how sad I am. Go catch some cloud mices, Cal!

Brother mine, italian hero !

Posted: May 9, 2012 in Life size

My brother owns a small company, Tecnoserranda, manufacturing doors and fittings. He is a hard worker and a good salesman; more than anything, he does not give up easily, so to fight against the crisis devastating this country, he started to look outside of Italy to grow his business. He did it the hard & [...]

….this man retired from the ring. Still the Greatest!

What kind of leader am I?

Posted: May 17, 2011 in Life size

I just completed an MBTI / FIRO-B assessment together with all my colleagues in the Ketchum Pleon leadership team. Interesting self insight which becomes more valuable when you share it, I think, and although I do not expect the oceanic crowds reading this blog to actually do anything with this information, in a way blogging [...]

Do I feel better, now?

Posted: May 3, 2011 in Life size

No.

…being first

Posted: March 28, 2011 in Life size

I remember how this used to tickle me: the small town where I lived for about 15 years, Basiglio, has consistely led the ranking for the italian municipalities with the highest average income. And this year, again, Basiglio tops the list (reports Il Sole 24 Ore), although it seems to me Galliate Lombardo is likely [...]

32 years ago, this very day, the reactor at the Three Mile Island power station initiated a series of events and mishaps which brought about the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. If you care to read the simplified Wikipedia account of the accident linked above, you will see that it, too, SCRAM-med in about [...]

I thought not many people knew I am Nuclear Engineer by background, but evidently they are enough to have a few of them asking what is my opinion about the situation in Japan. And knowing how complex such plants are, and to avoid showing disrespect for a wonderful nation hit by such a cruel catastrophe [...]

Flog

Posted: April 22, 2010 in Life size, Why I hate...

Here is a beautiful case study of how NOT to use Social Media: an only-too-obvious flog whose only purpose in its only post is to create inbound links to the target website. I bet there is another hundred like this one, a childish attempt to trick Google’s algo. I have no idea who is the [...]

Very complete writeup by Olivier Blanchard on Brandbuilder blog