I am Arduino Mancini, and this is my blog.
I offer insights and training tools for people who want to develop effective thinking and improve their performance, at work and in private life.
Training, career management, glass ceiling, job search, boss and people management, critical thinking, negotiation, gender diversity are just some of the topics we will discuss: at the bottom, to the right, you find the post’s categories.
To complete the panorama of the tools at your disposal, you will find reviews of books and movies, training courses and coaching programmes for people, groups and organisations.
A characteristic of this blog?
I believe that the task of a blogger is not to dispense truth, but to leave the reader at least a doubt to be kept within his notes: and questions to share with the tibicon community.
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Find out with this test!
2023 October 03 |
by Arduino Mancini
Feedback
What does this test consist of? First of all, let me ask you a question: Do you usually accept feedback from people who work with you? I am not talking about your boss, but rather about colleagues and staff members with whom you share the workday. I’m sure you do! But if you want to […]
Because in most cases they are parvenus! Want to know more?
Who is a parvenu? Dictionaries agree to define it as a person who has acquired a superior economic and social status without adapting to the manners of the new context. In most countries the man in power, who inevitably aspires to charismatic leadership, is too often a parvenu. We can define him as a person who […]
Seven good rules will help you!
More and more often we encounter situations in which we need to call on experts, that is, people with knowledge and experience in a specific topic, superior to the ones we can rely on as an individual, group or organization. In my experience, ascertaining whether we are actually in the presence of an expert in […]
Here's what I learned by working as a manager and as a coach!
Resistance to change will probably be the main issue that people with leadership and management responsibilities in the companies will be facing in the near future (and not only in the near…). Why? Over the past three decades, the world has moved faster and faster, forcing companies to face rapidly evolving scenarios with ever-changing strategic […]
Here are six bad habits that will help you find out!
I think we can share the idea that listening is an essential function of communication that multimedia has substantially damaged, because we are systematically urged to devote attention to more than one thing at the same time. Is this all the smartphone’s fault? Absolutely not, because long-standing habits affect listening skills perhaps more profoundly than […]
How the sense of powerlessness can be learned. And taught!
In the cartoon strip, I have reported a conversation that everyone has experienced at least once: which I hope has provoked in you at least a motion of rebellion. Where do expressions such as “You don’t have to think, you just have to obey” come from? What is its purpose? Can one learn pessimism? And […]
Want to know why?
People’s motivation at work is highly dependent on how they feel about managing their roles. Listen to what American entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash has to say about this. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging around their neck that says, Make me feel important! Never forget this message when working with people. Whether we are aware […]
An enlightening video will help us answer this question!
Recently a colleague, who works primarily for companies in perpetual search of talent, was puzzled by the content of this video and asked me what I thought about it. After watching it carefully, I realized that Simon Sinek, the author, had in two minutes challenged many of his beliefs about recruitment: beliefs that with my […]
What would you do if your boss reprimands you for not stopping him/her from blundering?
It happens fairly often that the boss asks the staff member to execute his instructions without much discussion. But it can also happen that the boss might reprimand the staff member for not stopping him/her from doing something stupid, as it happens in the cartoon strip. Have you ever experienced anything like this? How did […]
Three questions to defeat your liking bias!
How often it happened to you to buy things that you did not need? Or to buy from one person rather than another without the quality of what you were about to buy playing a crucial role? Much more than you imagine, I bet. In this post, I want to focus on a mechanism that […]
