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Vi avevo avvisato che la vigilia ed il giorno di Natale, sarebbe stato tranquillo.....e come avete visto ho mantenuto la promessa....
il 26 invece...aspettavo amici caciaroni e di buona forchetta ...
Perciò....



Panoramica della tavola...ringrazio per la bella tovaglia nuova, l'amica Cindystar , che me l'ha fatta recapitare a casa in un pacco pieno di splendide sorprese, regalandomi l'entusiasmo di un bambino davanti ad un pacco dono...



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Chicken Salad



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At Christmas we have been good .... eh .... we are content, but ... say that the dinner has been rescheduled later in the day ...
not remember what time we sat down, nor when we got up ....
still went well ... well mother in the evening, when we seen her home was peaceful and quiet ......



pigtails with cooked ham and rosemary edamer



Lasagna with mushrooms, cheese and sausage



Leg of turkey stuffed with perfume Orange



Belgian Endive

soon to follow recipes ....

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As mentioned I am the guide to show you the tables of the festivities .....
on Christmas Eve, we were house as usual, but this year have been added, my mom and the boyfriend of Eleanor Francis ... ... ihihi me 'laugh tie this title, because I remember when I was a kid, I shoot many, in fact to 17 years to be the "boyfriend" when you feel great and ready to face the world is not just cute, but I'm sure he will pass me because the guy is a treasure ....
Well after the submission of the new addition to the family, here are photos of Eve dinner ....




Shrimp cocktail
As every year, and Manu Ele in the days before make any order regarding the dishes for the table on Christmas Eve and they never fail!



home made smoked salmon
pleasant discovery I did not know you could do at home, but with the suggestion of his friend Christian, I succeed in this business, anything but titanic, the short- recipe in the blog;)



cream risotto scampi
Another dish that is connected to the family tradition ....




Calamari
gratin recipe from my friend Laura, very good, fast and effect on these monitors ... soon ...
accompanied home made bread and fresh salad ....
Last but not least .... to accompany pandori and panettone .....



The crunchy almond

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We are preparing to celebrate the New Year ...
last year organized a theme party ....." antisfiga ", but ...
did not work very patiently ........ ..... this is life and I learned to appreciate the mere fact of getting up every morning, enjoy the joys although sometimes may seem modest compared to the pain ....
say that ..... everyone has a wish come true .... sometimes .... others do not .... we continue to grow it but not get crazy if you will hear .... could also possible that during our journey done something even more beautiful, we had not planned ......
leave you best wishes and the idea for a centerpiece ..... I have used for the tables of the past few days, but would be fine for New Year .....
A beautiful square vase, a box of Christmas poutporri with pine cones, a dry branch, a pomegranate, a branch of red berries and a beautiful white candle .... a little 'fantasy ....



For placeholder, always welcome the portacandelina galej IKEA, maybe try to fill them with salt to give the effect of snow, a white candle, rather than floats, so you do not have the metal base and then .... un oggetto a piacere.... un pezzetto di cannella, un rametto di abete, palline colorate o quello che la vostra fantasia vi suggerisce...
io ho usato una mora finta...



Nei prossimi giorni posterò le tavolate delle feste appena passate e con il nuovo anno riprenderò a condividere le ricette....a presto! ;)

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I admit, I had taken some 'lightly ... What unites

"Think, and 'free. 84 practical ideas to develop the talent and succeed, " J. Lorente (ETAS, 2010)

I admit, I had taken a little 'lightly. The title is very easy I had been called assessments as easy on the consistency of the book. I figured the usual memoir, written by the latest advertising at the end of his career from which a vision of success and how to achieve it.

In short, nothing more, at best, the usual "do not tell my mother ..., hollywood washes whiter, Confessions of an advertising" etc. .. With this in mind I approached reading in a very lightweight, easy , trying to grasp the juice, some slogan "help" by reading the first pages of the book.

Poi mi sono dovuto ricredere, ho rallentato ed ho riletto alcune pagine che avevo sorvolato in modo forse un pó troppo superficiale.

Rileggendo, i concetti da portarsi dietro, sui quali riflettere, da aggiungere al proprio bagaglio di conoscenze, ci sono. Ci sono e vi verranno trasmessi in modo molto chiaro, diretto, in pochi secondi cosi come può fare solo un pubblicitario affermato come e’ l’autore di questo libro.

Qualche esempio? Il self-marketing ed il posizionamento del prodotto “voi”. Avrete sicuramente letto numerosi libri che vi hanno parlato del vostro piano di marketing, del vostro vantaggio competitivo, del vostro personale piano di vendita per vendere voi, la vostra professionalità, il vostro brand. Libri, peró, con una impostazione tradizionale, con una descrizione dettagliata del piano di marketing che dovevate stendere a tavolino (magari la sera, a casa, dopo dieci ore di lavoro).

Dal punto di vista formale niente da dire, rispecchia quello che vi hanno insegnato nelle vostre business school , un metodo accademico semplicemente traslato su di voi. Dal punto di vista pratico, peró, un pó noioso da attuare, schematico con il rischio di farvi perdere per strada, mentre dettagliate il vostro personal marketing plan.

This book, however, very light, will talk about you, as you are and what you want and you can do. Why is never late to decide what you want to grow up.

Here then is a series of short commercials very concise but equally precise, sometimes so direct as to seem brutal to strike, as well as a successful advertising has to do. Capture your attention and leave you in a message then come up with quiet within you.

Why basically the whole game is played here. To succeed we must compete, compete with other people animated by the same spirit of victory. Identify your goal, you want to go, what excites you and follow it with enthusiasm and clarity. Do not try to play games, the cunning, the tripping. Play in a transparent, open up and communicate, convey your brand as if it were a religion, with certainty and hope for a better future.

not stop to learn, grow, be curious, read, talk to people. Without pretense, without unnecessary and artificial strategies, without deceiving the people with whom you interact.

Perché leggerlo:

E’ un libro leggero ma denso. Prendetelo come una pausa, quando siete sopraffatti da una giornata lavorativa troppo impegnativa e carica di tensioni, aprite il libro ed ascoltate i consigli amichevoli che vi dá l’autore.

Sará un modo come un altro per ritrovare il proprio focus interno, per rassicurarvi del fatto che le vostre azioni durante la giornata sono state in linea con il vostro credo profondo, che nonostante vi sembri di essere stati travolti da un tornado, siete sempre voi, un pó better than yesterday and especially with his feet planted firmly on the ground.

"Think, and 'free. 84 practical ideas to develop the talent and succeed, " J. Lorente (ETAS, 2010)

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an insurer to Rimini (Muccioli) and a tailor made and Spanish (the founder of Zara)?



" Seven keys of imagination, " Piero Morosini (ETAS, 2010)

If you plan the future, if you draw a strategy based on data, knowledge of this and then 'probably will not go very far from where you are now. Some counter-example? Think of the community Vincenzo Muccioli or clothing chain Zara, take back a moment from the confusion related to this risky approach. Think for a moment and you will see that it is not so risky.

What unites an insurer to Rimini (Muccioli) and a tailor made and English (the founder of Zara)?

First of all, the ability to listen to people, empathize with them, understand their desires. And then sapergli provide an environment, a product, a lifestyle in line with these desires. All transactions within their organizations with a flexible approach, able to abandon rules, processes, structures that culture, corporate or otherwise, then, requires the management of work and the people inside. An ability to have the vision and pursue it with humility, perseverance, but with a clear sense of urgency and imperative, management.

Do not be discouraged by the first pages, the author will take you on a short trip on the historic role of magic e della immaginazione nella storia; se siete appassionati di storia bene, avrete materia da approfondire, altrimenti raccogliete la tesi finale di quelle brevi pagine: l’immaginazione, storicamente, era considerata un precursore della conoscenza scientifica. Solo con Cartesio e la razionalitá applicata al pensiero, il ruolo dell’immaginazione é stato sminuito, cancellato, nascosto.

Poi percorrete insieme all’autore i laboratori di psicologia dove solidi esperimenti hanno evidenziato il ruolo della immaginazione come fattore “preventivo” di successo; di individuazione ed anticipazione del risultato che si vuole raggiungere ed offrire al mondo.

E poi, misuratevi con il disagio provocato da questo libro, ogni volta che, leggendo una tesi sostenuta da Morosini, proverete un senso di distonia, di incredulità verso quanto affermato, fermatevi a riflettere.

E’ qui che questo libro raggiunge il suo risultato, disorientarvi e farvi capire quanto, nel vostro lavoro, siate addentro a delle logiche, a degli standard di pensiero che vi vincolano a rimanere quello che siete ed a continuare a fare business nel solito modo.

Un esempio? Pensate a quanto indiscutibile sia per you, and for the business in which you work, the concept of trade-off : the rise of a characteristic of a product must be to the detriment of another. The product, to differentiate, to enhance a particular feature , features, services to be characterized at the same time, to contain costs, should in fact exclude others and sacrificing a slice of the population from its target. Normal right? I'm different, I position it by leveraging one, two distinctive features and omit other aspects that I consider non-core or in line with my target. Here is the axiom.

Actually, who has really made a difference even reinventing mature markets has used a strategy on trade-, offering more to its customers at lower prices and reduced unit costs. Impossible? EasyJet Read the case mentioned in this book and think Morosini. You will see that the trade-off is an approach to business strategy taken as an absolute law (who has the courage to deny a management gurus such as Porter?) But that is not being applied by those companies that have succeeded to be successful, I repeat, even in mature markets such as apparel, aviation, beverage.

you're probably wondering, okay, I speak of great commercial success but I just want to find my space in the commercial arena, my direction, my sense in the world of work. It may be that I never quite reaches the levels of the founder of EasyJet or Zara. So, is there a place I have to give my contribution?

Advancing reading the book you will see how the author manages to lower the sense of mission, vision, bright and implementation of their own fevered dreams exemplified by the characters mentioned above, in a more intimate, ours.

We explain what we do to re-tune with our emotions, with those forgotten dreams can make us vibrate and give us a sense of direction lost. Exercises for self but also of self-listening, because the difference between us and the founder of Zara may seem unfathomable, but in the end it is not. The difference lies in having identified its mission , in being able to isolate what makes us really excited, not so many rationalizations table.

The difference, of those who managed to make a difference, was to have had a vision, averla saputa immaginare dal punto di vista del cliente ed averne perseguito la realizzazione con una costanza e testardaggine sicuramente non comuni. Ed é da qui che inizia il nostro lavoro, quello di ri-sintonizzarci su quei sogni che abbiamo perso strada facendo.

Perché leggerlo:

Non so voi, ma io la distinzione tra vision e mission non l’ho avuta mai molto chiara. Certo a livello di definizione é sufficiente prendere un buon manuale di management ed impararne a memoria la spiegazione.

Ma il vero punto non è recitare la vision e la mission della propria azienda ma capire come queste vengano generate, i processi creativi, di pensiero, di motivazione che stanno alla base delle aziende di successo.

Qui non si tratta di essere fedele ad uno statement aziendale e prenderlo cosi com’é ma capire come, quelle persone che hanno generato nuovi e redditizi settori di business, abbiano avuto la capacitá di “vedere” il futuro, di capire perché quel futuro sarebbe stato importante per il mondo, per i loro clienti e di attuare le azioni necessarie per raggiungere consistent with that vision, tenacity and a capacity to rise with each fall largely unknown.

People who have achieved success in a seemingly unexplainable, or rather having unexplained head in the classic management text cut rationalist. How could they have been successful also violating the most elementary rules of the business strategy that you have taught in your prestigious business school ? Effect of "magic"? It may be, however you read the sections of the book by Morosini who speak of the role of magic in history and creative process of great artists the past. You will see the magic in the air is less span than you thought, and perhaps also to do with the rational world of business .

"The seven keys of the imagination," Piero Morosini (ETAS, 2010)

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Mamma mia!! ma quanto tempo è che non posto qualcosa!!! troppo, troppissimo...
ma del resto il tempo è veramente pochissimo, ora che la piccola ha cominciato il nido c'è veramente da trottare aventi e indietro!! senza contare che dopo 8 ore di lavoro al pc non è che abbia moltissima voglia di starci anche a casa....
comunque, bando alle ciance, e vediamo di recuperare il tempo perduto...
innanzitutto, per riprendere alla grande, direi di cominciare con la torta del 1° compleanno di Cecilia...

la foto non rende giustizia, fondamentalmente perchè l'ho dovuta fare in fretta perchè dovevo dare retta non solo alla festeggiata, ma anche a tutti gli altri invitati in tutto (12)
trattasi di un pan di spagna classicissimo, bagnato con latte e zucchero, farcito con crema di ricotta e pezzi di cioccolato gianduia... una goduriaaaaaaaa!!!
l'idea della forma l'avevo da tempo, ma non sapevo bene cosa fare su questo 1....
allora ho sbirciato nel sito della wilton ed ho trovato l'idea perfetta, una cosa semplice ma allo stesso tempo d'effetto!!

le stelline, la fiamma e i cubi sono di cioccolato plastico bianco, colorato con i coloranti in polvere...
tra l'altro senza volerlo la candela è colorata con i colori dell'azienda in cui lavoro...

Here's the birthday girl with satisfaction that Pappano is a cube of plastic chocolate ... Gourmet!
It 'been a grind! especially because it was the first time I prepare a complete meal (starter, main course, side dishes and dessert) for 14 people!! was a challenge! I must say that fortunately everything went well ...

At this point I am already thinking what to do for the 2nd birthday .... : D

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One Saturday forzanovista: Savona and Ventimiglia!

E 'arrival in a big Saturday forzanovista in Liguria!

Saturday, November 13 press conference at the National Secretary FN Savona, Roberto Fiore, along with Hugh Ghione, head of the New Right movement in Savona.

We will meet, along with supporters and members, at the Hotel Suisse (Paleocapa along the street, at number 24) at 12.

Later rather big event in the extreme west Ligurian XXMIGLIA In fact, it will open the second within the New Forces regione.Vi expect in our ongoing Genoa

The appointment is at 16 and, for the inauguration will be Roberto Fiore.

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Admit it, you have not had the courage to buy

Admit it, you have not had the courage to buy it. You were in the library, check you have seen this title from the shelf, "Self-promotion for introverts. Informal Guide to a career in a peaceful " and you stopped to look at the libro come se vi avesse fatto l’occhiolino, se vi avesse chiamato per nome.

Vi siete guardate attorno, avete preso il libro, lo avete aperto a caso e lui ha cominciato a parlarvi di come siete fatti, della vostra tendenza a pensare prima di parlare, del perché il collega estroverso fa sempre le presentazioni migliori delle vostre, del perché…Avete chiuso libro, avete respirato a fondo ed avete pensato “sono io!”.  

Vi siete guardati nuovamente intorno per vedere se qualcuno vi aveva visto mentre leggevate, rapito, alcune random phrases. No, well, they have not discovered.

Now comes the hard part, you have to go to the cashier, place the book on the case (cover title visible) the risk that the clerk / treasurer will cast a sidelong glance as if you were there, a library in the center, to admit in public, your introversion. Because the titles and I really did not want to speak for incurable introvert pass in front of the cashier / aea everyone in the queue behind you, of course, many at that time.

So you took the backup plan, you took the book with make bold, I have kept in plain sight while you were in the queue and then you asked, with an unusually high tone of voice and awkward: "It 's possible to make a package? You know, and 'a gift ... "is relaxed, smiling at the cashier / a tired of gift items for that title, especially at Christmas when there are still six months. Have you paid, you are immediately pulled out and you have the gift to begin reading this book.

If you bought "Self-promotion for introverts. Informal Guide to a career in a peaceful " have done well. It 's a book enlightening, I know, the first translated into Italian, as compared to the amount of English language books on the topic, a book that talks about introversion and their career strategies.

You have done well because you were tired of all those books of American-style self-assessment that has forced a ridiculous and unnecessary autogenous training where you had to repeat all day: "I'm the best, I'm good ; I'm not afraid, I can do it, every drop makes me stronger ... ".

It 's a book that will tell you about dell'introversione intimate as a normal thing, and why' normal. For too long the world of business and 'was portrayed as only the preserve of tycoon extrovert; born trader, great storyteller. All based on a misunderstanding of the fund, equal to-social introvert. Here is the error. Or rather, here is your competitive advantage.

in the old economy of abundance, where the face of enormous potential markets by producing goods that attack was going to steal anyway, the business itself could be played by aggressive people, with easy and close the bar with a sure hand and an iron.

In the dell'abbastanza good economy, the overabundance of informed choice, the niches to discover and pursue the reality and 'very different. We need people who can first of all to listen, to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe interlocutor, and only then speak, offering products in a consultative, not as aggressive sales. People are able to build relationships of mutual trust, strengthening the link, becoming a partner of its customers. Exactly how does an introvert you. Why ricordiamocelo, the introvert and 'simply the person who thinks before speaking and not vice versa, that's all.

The exercise, if anything, and 'not to extend too long the phase of thought and act when actors have already moved before you. Too late. Fine.

The book will help you do just this, to shed light on your personality and discover the potential that until recently were thought to be defects. It will help you develop your ability to build your network , do networking just focusing on your main competitive advantage, to create respect, empathy.

this capacity that you will also be applied on modern social networking tools : facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo. The book will help you to abandon your natural reluctance, tells you to open up and tell the world what you're doing, do not overdo it, so exactly as you are discreet.

Why read it:

The authoress, introverted par excellence, but look a bit ', successful woman with a job held in the coaching and public speaking will also help you to transform good intentions into actions, programs, things to do by a certain date.

will advise you how to leverage new media to build relationships, get in touch with the people with whom you want to do business . He tells you how to promote your business through blogs, websites. We tell you how to get into communities, virtual and real, and how to promote as an expert in what you can do working together in forums, discussion groups and associations.

And then I will give you important companies in the Fortune 500 ranking , led by CEO introverts that have led to success thanks to their rigorous personality, reserved, disciplined, ready to perceive weak signals from the environment. Read it, and 'one of those books that will not disappoint you, perhaps because it is not' written by an extrovert.

"Self-promotion for introverts. Informal Guide to a career in a calm, Nancy Ancowitz (ETAS, 2010)

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This morning a group of militant student struggles Genoa have presided over the release of the Technical Institute vessel "San Giorgio" Genova. Arrived, placed the material and the red flag with Celtic, have made a flyer on the reform Gelmini, discussed and challenged by the student movements throughout Italy at this time. The leaflet in question spurred the average student to "fight" as a form of protest and rebellion against a rotten system that thinks only the economic interests of a few while ignoring the needs of students, professors and experts!

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student protests, the association of high school students of Forza Nuova, Announces d 'have made a night raid in more than 100 Italian cities to protest against the "Counter-Reformation Gelmini": thousands of road signs indicating the "Stop" were filled by stickers and flyers bearing the message "The Reform Gelmini:" symbolic initiative follows dozens of principals and mobilization of all students Studentescae Fight against the reform of the Minister Gelmini, unariforma which we are at the forefront of his claim. As students we can not accept and not accept in silence to see destroy our future, to deny our right to education. The reform should be exactly the opposite direction than the current education system needs, among the worst in Europe: Instead of investing money illegal and unsafe buildings heal, instead of investing resources to combat carolibri and cut thousands of jobs, is the disproportionate increase number of students per class, in other words, students are forced to indigent poor education. Despite the apparent opposition of worldwide educational reform, Minister Tremonti Gelmini and make a deaf ear: ignoring legitimate claims shows a total lack of awareness of the importance of young people for Italy tomorrow. "

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You are algorithmic or heuristic?

You algorithmic or heuristic? The answer lies here. To understand what motivates you in life and work because you are dissatisfied by what you are doing you should ask yourself this question; algorithmic or heuristic?

Before responding to ó , you should read "Drive. The surprising truth about what motivates us at work and in life " by Daniel H. Pink.

The author explains that if you prefer to work algorithmic routine, established through the procedure, where the goal to reach and 'default as well as are the ways of working to achieve it.

You heuristic instead if you feel attracted to creative work, where the options are open, where the goal may also be default but it leaves ample room for autonomy in taking action to achieve it.

algorithmic If you are you will feel inspired by forms of remuneration linked to the goal on time and according to these steps, you will be paid based on your performance and nothing more.

objectives You will be punished if they do not reach the as indicated. Carrot and stick.

If you feel you are heuristic not only stimulated by an adequate remuneration, that is obviously a pre-condition, but the autonomy and the opportunity to apply your creativity without constraints to the achievement of ' likely to exceed target.

So far, so clear, why go further in reading? Although it is true that each of us in certain parts of their work, more or less extensive, and 'algorithmic, it is also true that to become more heuristic does well.

does well first of all to your job prospects, highly creative works, business, relational and knowledge are the ones least likely to be outsourced abroad as difficult to be outlined, based on replicable procedures to be applied .

then is good for you, your ambitions, to make, what you really want to do your new job. Because we are not talking only to keep their jobs or not, appearance is not entirely negligible, but to have success.

True success is what allows us to apply our desires, our ambitions, our desire for autonomy, to our daily work, not be more dovendolo but making it a state of flow of identification continues.

Attention to ó , what I'm saying there will be recounted in the book using the usual techniques of self-motivation and retract the American school. There will be no repeat slogans in the car while you are prisoners of the usual queue for the daily commute to work.

The author "Drive" will take you to a location at times annoying but enlightened; annoying because, referring also to solid evidence obtained from experiments in the field of motivational psychology, forces you to question the stereotypes of which we are all imbued.

will be very difficult to accept that it will not be 'much-needed pay rise to give us the push we lack motivation, yes of course, initially we will also be satisfied, enhance our performance and regain the momentum but sooner or later, we need more new ideas, new salary increases, new benefits in order to raise our level of satisfaction. A kind of endless race on the treadmill (provided there is someone willing to continue offering increases in salary, I doubt it).

Why read it:

This book has two reading levels.

The first is intended as criticism of management thinking in people management technology. It reminds us that it is necessary to reconsider the forms of governance adapt to a new audience, all of us who in the activity is' work is also a form of expression of one's being in a continuous improvement. One argument that abandoning the logic of "carrot and stick" no longer suited to modern competitive scenario where each of us and 'obliged to be their own entrepreneurs.

The second use of managers to themselves or others, provides a clear view of the motivational forces that we have cultivated and strengthened in our daily activities and during the management of others. Because, whether you are a CEO or a new intern, and 'one of our obligation to improve the quality of our lives work and the environment in which we operate.

"Drive. The surprising truth about what motivates us at work and in life " (ETAS, 2010)

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" Different . Conformity reigns but the exception dominates " (ETAS, 2010)

Sit. This book will not allow you to memorize four, at most Five basic concepts for use in the next meeting with some senior managers. Will not give you certainty, will not allow you to jump from chapter to chapter trying to memorize a few slogans to impact.

Do not skip the introduction, this is an integral part of the book.

Sit back and enjoy the ride from the discourse, a discourse that combines the author's life and thoughts Youngme Moon to a pitiless analysis of how it should change the way you compete.

In the first phase, this Harvard professor, demolish le vostre certezze sul come state facendo business, lo farà con mano ferma ma con atteggiamento materno, comprensivo. Distruggerà per farvi ragionare, per dare una nuova visione a voi ed al business in cui operate.

Pensate a quante volte vi siete trovati di fronte ad una decisione aziendale già presa, che doveva essere fatta perché il mercato lo impone, la concorrenza lo sta facendo, saremmo considerati poco cool a rimanere fuori da questo filone.

Davanti a slide accurate e business case inoppugnabili anche voi alla fine avete abbozzato, avete fatto qualche domanda right not to be too skeptical to agree and then you have started the nth product development, because the market wants, our competitor does.

The author will inspire you to reflect on how business decisions can be guided by "cultural paradigms," pervasive references on how to think and what kind of decisions taken. Cultural paradigms that express an axiom according to which the progress, development, continuous improvement is associated with a positive value, an improved product, improved, must be better and more popular, buyers.

Il libro ci aiuta a riflettere come i tradizionali investimenti in marketing e sviluppo prodotto indirizzino tutti i nostri sforzi a far diventare il nostro brand, i nostri prodotti, la nostra azienda, l’ennesima espressione anonima del gregge, il gregge dell’“abbastanza buono” ormai imperante.

“Differente” ci dice di fermarci, riflettere, di uscire per un momento dall’arena competitiva e ragionare, uscire dagli schemi di aggressività reattiva alle mosse dei concorrenti.

Un esercizio di questo genere, per non cadere nella riflessione fine a se stessa, ha bisogno di applicazioni e casi concreti. L’autrice ce li fornisce nella seconda parte del libro, dopo le critiche si passa all’azione.

Avete mai riflettuto al successo di certi brand venuti dal nulla? Brand che non vi hanno stordito di pubblicità con facce felici di bambini biondi entusiasti di mangiare quella merendina o salire sulla nuova macchina comprata da papà? Brand a volte sgradevoli che hanno azzerato ad un tratto la comodità di accessori, informazioni, abbondanza ai quali eravamo abituati e che consideriamo scontati nell’acquisto di un dato prodotto?

illuminating example of the author who, I admit, also generating a bit of nostalgia, reminds us that our knowledge of the Internet has grown in step with the enrichment of the homepage of Yahoo. A portal that has accompanied us in the discovery of the Internet, providing progressively all the services that we could need, there, on the front page, a click away. Yahoo has got us used to be a point of reference, the base from which to search for anything (horoscopes, weather, news, games, ...). Then e 'and nothing came Google and' the same again.

only a mask research in an ethereal white space, as if to remind those with luxury shops and boutiques and a few essential exhibition displayed products.

What 'happened? Which levers acted Google and all those brands that have distinguished themselves from the fray? Find out by reading "Different. Conformity reigns but the exception dominates " of Youngme Moon.

Why read it:

There are books that leave us ready-made slogan, other, more complex as this, which seem to go off-topic, because only then reveal the finished book.

are those books that force us to break out and think, something very difficult in a business world where we are all forced to wear short-term results.

Here, the author throws us a challenge, a challenge that we can not grasp if we are not able to be calm, if not we will be able to leave the quiet conformism that has led us to say yes before product presentations that they were supposed to die immediately.

will help us to change our way of thinking about competition. Compete with other brand not to add yet another feature that can never be distinguished as soon matched, but distorting the rules, making its brand a product for a few people for opposition, for those who want to stand out from the herd and .

because the flock is' reassuring, makes us like using the same symbols of others and, in terms of career, allows us to make the obvious choices, not because smentibili accepted by the whole market.

shame that here we play can be winners or losers, differentiate their brand and succeed or die slowly in a gentle and slow drift along with the flock.

"Different. Conformity reigns but the exception dominates " (ETAS, 2010)