Thursday, May 28, 2009

Side Effects Of An Overbite




Here is a book that you can put in your suitcase for your next vacation: it is not a handbook for professionals but a 'noir' written by a professor of comparative literature, Abraham Ben Yehoshua, at the University of Haifa (Israel) and published by Einaudi Super ET in the series. Price: € 11.00.

Abstract:

A suicide bomber blows himself up in a Jerusalem market. A woman dies. It was foreign, lived alone in a squalid shack with a religious neighborhood. Nobody goes to claim his corpse to the mortuary of the Mount Scopus. Yet Julia Regajev yet formally a job as a cleaner in a large bakery in the city. An unscrupulous journalist uses the case to baste a scandal and denounces the 'inhumanity' of the company, which has not even noticed the absence of the employee.
It is for the human resources manager, sent on mission by the elderly owner of the bakery, trying to undo the damage of the image. But the journey to the burial of the compassionate woman reveals to him more important than a window dressing in public opinion. For a character of Joshua, being responsible does not mean to be guilty, but also actively carry the weight of a moral imperative. Thus the human resource manager learns that even a small fault, such as that have stained his company must not be overlooked, because even small faults can have a terrible power.

Happy reading!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Blueprints Of A Hair Salone

May 28, 2009: Conference on 'Happiness and work' on Lake Maggiore




The
well be working and reflection work ethic

Alberto Peretti

need from finding a simple but overlooked: when we work not only produce goods or services, but we produce ourselves, we form a very significant piece of our existence and that. What makes our work life? What health, individually and collectively?

a long, long time, the work has undergone a process of reification that has led many workers to perceive themselves as simple functions, their achievements as mere things, the world of work as a right only by mechanical and instrumental relationships mediated by money. In the work of private
existential tension the human being seeks its completeness, its fulfillment, its flowering. In a word, does not seek to produce for themselves and for others a good life, a life worth living. The separate work from the elements that make full and rewarding working life reduced to productive action aimed at achieving a purpose outside itself and translated into an absolute monetary value generates ill-being, individually and collectively.

The well-being of people can and should be sought not only after hours of working, but also within it, reconnecting the production dynamics by looking for a good life. Any proposal for a civilization is measured not by what marginalizzerĂ  work, but how will know and be able to put the its center. This means we need not look for the social well-being through work, and when considered as a simple tool production or enrichment material, but in the work, understood and valued as a dimension of good life.

intervention moves from the idea that ethical reflection is a condition to be working well, that health is also at work where people can responsibly evaluate, choose to follow guidelines of ethical behavior. Ethical reflection can observe the daily work of a deeper and broader perspective, that is not only the economic or interest-performing, rather than the enrichment of the human dimension, ethical, spiritual, relational.
Thanks to ethical reflection can provide the labor and organizational systems of a vital and energizing spiritual restlessness. Reconnecting people working to depths of his soul, breaking the sense of alienation and indifference which humiliates the existence of many.

must be clear that the work ethic has nothing to do with either the simple professional ethics or with the banal "doing good". It 'true that a job retie with the depth of the existence of those who work is a work dedicated to the true effectiveness and efficiency of the authentic. The creation of conditions for a good life work is, among other things, the best guarantee of quality performance and service excellence.

Free admission. For info and registration: conferenceroom@fandis.it

Thursday, May 7, 2009

A Fun Church Anniversary Celebration

Prune

I read a thought of a writer, Massimo Orlandi, who says: "Prune. Is easy to understand why this verb we use only for plants. Why prune themselves is much more difficult. There is easy to recognize our dead branches, we do not like giving up anything of what we have, because all we have, at least so it seems, it is necessary. We complain, yes . In personal relationships harnessed in themselves, a job that has become barren, a claustrophobic social life, of being tied to too many securities. But we believe that all these conditions are inevitable and we offer one thousand excuses for not touching them. Pruning acts to sever the branches of those routes that have become sterile without waiting to rot, perhaps overwhelming the healthy parts. Guccini reminds us that "we must be able to choose in time, not to get opposition." The action of the crop, a wise and timely power as that of the farmer, certainly creates a vacuum at the beginning, but then slowly opens the pores makes new energy filter, we feel freer, more real.
E 'a gesture of love for ourselves, an unthinkable act of love. "Luigi Padovese

again writes:" These are the postings that we have to realize that fill us with fear. For this reason we happen to focus our energies on holding things. There is excessively cumbersome. So every now and then feel the need to reduce and to take off into something new. We are faced with the need to balance our security needs with our needs for growth. "Why, quoting Father Vannucci," Whoever wants to go forward in life you which would break away, break up, as the flower bud is separated from the fruit of the flower ... surrender to the previous form to go forward. "

In a moment of quiet, yesterday reflected on these words and I feel that its time has come for me one of those moments where you need to get rid of any unnecessary burden. So I tried to show, to give shape and content to the weight rests on the shoulders and I feel I have compiled an initial list of 'things' that I would like to break free:
- first and foremost I would like to free up many objects, furniture, clothing, unnecessary supellettile . Remove everything from my house that is not strictly necessary for daily life (because I keep 3 of dishes, glasses and an unknown number of bowls of all types? Why dwell in the bathroom cabinet ranks of bottles of bubble bath? E 's list goes on ... for pages). I would like voids, a few simple lines and functional, visually restful place where everything has its very reason for being;
- I would not have to worry about what I wear most of the morning, something comfortable and dignified but without any frills. A sort of uniform but does not represent other but myself. Recognizable in its essential simplicity;
- I would like to prune unnecessary pleasantries, the solid hypocrisies of everyday life, the conventions and all the security waved flags as to be able to more often say: "Today I have no answers for you, but if you can find them together .. "
- I would stay out of conflicts that do not grow and serve only to establish boundaries and power;
- but I would also learn how to turn the latent need for acceptance and recognition that too often has made me hesitate on the path of my growth and sometimes even led me to bend down a street not really desired
- I would finally be able to leave behind all things that I have been 'date' in inheritance, delivery, gift that I never asked, I do not need me or even slow down the march
- I want to learn not to try more excuses for not immediately satisfy these desires.
- I want to start light and this is my purpose today.

And you what you would like to prune in your life or your organization?