Valerio Albisetti - Il viaggio della Vita

<!– .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } –> My leader (or jokingly the “Albisettian”) leader should also: - Always tell his workers exactly what they can expect. - Maintain rules for work hours and expected behavior in order to give security. - Do away with the traditional hierarchies. - Rotate responsibilities so that everyone knows one other and jealousy and envy are reduced. - Treat everyone...

When selecting people to be part of his or her group, my leader: - Remembers that they must share his or her ideals. - Uses unconventional interview methods to find talent. - Chooses optimists, not pessimists. - Ensures the people chosen truly want the job. - Chooses indefatigable workers for the most delicate tasks.

My leader must be: Bold in projects; attentive to details. Full of original, unconventional, energetic and ever stimulating ideas. He should avoid publically making critical observations of workers. Rather he should make them privately, in loyalty to the workers. He should choice a vice that shares the same ethical and moral values; a loyal but not too obliging person who knows how to work with others. (to be continued)

I remember a manager who always kept a distance from all of the people he met in the company. He used to say that his was the ideal attitude of a manager. One day I met him in a bar. He was alone. We greeted each other and he nodded for me to come sit at his table. I hadn’t even sat down before he started to vent his pain, his anguish. He was depressed. He was surprised when I told him that I had known this for a long time. From his behavior at work. When a person keeps a...

When a manager is dead inside he takes pleasure in doing harm, in preventing newness, in destroying and in discouraging the potential of his workers. If you observe certain companies you will find managers who, in theory, want to change. In practice, however, they seek to maintain the status quo at all costs. This is because every change brings newness, risk and possibility of failure. Every change brings the possibility to renew oneself. When you are dead inside, all of...

The mean manager knows he has lost his intimate vitality, his personal energy. He rages against his subordinates. He loves to plot against people and make them suffer. Deep down he is envious and jealous of others- above all whole, simple and vital people, because they remind him of what he once was. Often when one obtains power, like a much yearned for command post, that person’s personal and spiritual growth journey stops. There is a detachment from the great moral...