How does culture influence behaviour? It was the summer of 2012, and I was on a two-week English campus in Dublin. My class was composed of 4 Italian guys like 5 Russian friends, and me. One day, the teacher asked if we would report one of our parents to the authority if they committed a homicide. To my surprise, the […]
🌏 How Does Culture Influence Behaviour?
📒 4 Product Management Books You Should Read
Why read four books about product management? I believe that Product Management is becoming the alphabet of the upcoming days: nowadays, the entire economy is shifting through digital products and platforms services. According to Investopedia and uxcam, the top 6 companies listed on the S&P 500 index are digital products(Microsoft, Amazon, Google, et cetera). A fully optimized product manager could increase company profits by 34.2%. […]
🦢 The Black Swan: Was It Possible to Forsee Covid Pandemic? Copy
The Black Swan Theory Could the covid 19 pandemic be forseen? Were we blind in not preparing enough for what happened in 2020? The Black Swan Theory could help us understand it. It’s been a while since the last time I read a book that proposed “revolutionary” ways of thinking like “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. […]
🗞 How to Catch Up with News and Articles
“So many blogs, so little time.” Would Frank Zappa ever say it? You’ll never know it, but for sure, the number of inspiring blogs around is staggering: there are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites. How can you manage to catch up news and articles every day? Have you ever felt like there are so many […]
🦢 The Black Swan: Was It Possible to Forsee Covid Pandemic?
The Black Swan Theory Could the covid 19 pandemic be forseen? Were we blind in not preparing enough for what happened in 2020? The Black Swan Theory could help us understand it. It’s been a while since the last time I read a book that proposed “revolutionary” ways of thinking like “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. […]
🕹 GameStop: the Quiet after the Stock Storm
It’s been almost a year since the Gamestop stock case. For those who wonder what it is, in January 2020, Reddit Community WallStreetBets orchestrated a significant cumulative buy of GameStop stocks. The volume of stocks increased tenfold, the price adjusted, growing 1822% (taking as reference the interval 7th – 27th of January). How is GameStop after that? Was it a market joke? […]
🌍 Don’t be Just a Student – An AIESECer Perspective
I often find myself missing university years, and I believe that apart from friends, love and alcohol, what really made them unique is extracurricular activities and being a volunteer. Yes, indeed, you are probably hit by with exams, washing machines and hangovers. But volunteering in a student association in your early 20s may be the best way to gain knowledge about […]
👨🏫 How to Pitch Your Startup Effectively
Admit it: in the last year, you have thought, “I have a startup idea that will make me a millionaire“. Another classic statement is: “yes, I believe I can create the new Facebook for pets”, or “the new Airbnb for camping”, or the “Youporn for food”. It’s easy to create “the new insert a famous platform for random product”. What you may miss, is […]
🧠 How to Assess Knowledge Management in Organisation
The Knowledge-Economy We already mentioned previously that the importance of knowledge and knowledge management has been rising noticeably in the last decades. Firms and organisations value more and more intangible resources and intellectual capital. More and more competitive advantage is due to the ability of a given company to gain critical insights on the market, as investors know. According to NYU Stern […]
🪢 Do We Perceive Connections Correctly? A Network Approach
Network Centrality Measure In the last articles, we explored different aspects of network theory. After introducing networks and their presence in everyday life, we tried to understand how to create one in R, starting from a list of members sharing different interests or activities. Let’s start adding another layer of deepens by exploring the concept of centrality. Given a network, the centrality measures how often […]