Are static business organizations useful?

Some thought regarding corporate structures and organizations mixing combining a humanistic and scientific approach.?

A linux distribution suggests something about a fluid approach

Years ago, I've started using Linux OS and FOSS software for all my computational needs whenever it's possible. My laptop (sometimes “my laptops”) is running some Linux flavor since my last year in university. For some time, also my professional notebook was a Debian, Manjaro, or Ubuntu machine. I've made this choice because I need reliability, and I was always searching for efficient use of hardware resources. A strong plus is also that I appreciate the idea of something built with transparency and collaboration at its core.

Now I'm using?openSUSE?for my academic journey to complete a post-graduate degree and my company provided me a MacBook for work. I've chosen?Tumbleweed?a rolling release distribution because I want a dynamic OS that has also some sort of stability. In three years, I've never crossed my path with some serious problem.

Last Saturday a kernel panic hit my installation, so during class found me in trouble. Due to a specific approach, my OS of choice can do a simple rollback to a specific status, allowing me to not miss my academic deadline. So I've finally appreciated the idea behind this system, a rolling release (aka software is always changing) system that has at its core some tested software packages, and all is connected to a simple system backup strategy. The meaning of all of this is that somebody thought about a system that accepts the risk of breaking to accept innovation but lower the risk of it through some test and always present you with an exit strategy.

What a novelist can do against COVID 19?

During a car trip, me and my wife (the kid was sleeping) accept the suggestion of her coworker to listen to a podcast by Il?Post. The podcast is called "Mai Più" (aka "never again") and is the audio version of four different articles written by Alessandro Baricco.

We spent an engaging 40 minutes trying to juggle all the interesting ideas that are coming to us. It certainly impressed me how he can expose all the contradictions in all the organizations and institutions that rely on old systems to solve new problems. We can't build up to something strong from the ashes of the last economic, social, and health crisis living in immutable company, nation and system.

The podcast refers to a "XX century cleverness", a rationalistic way of understanding the world that brings a powerful specialist knowledge unable to see the connection between every aspect of reality, this way of thinking hit us very hard during the COVID-19 crisis in Italy. Also starting with only this simple idea we can try to find some new way of thinking, that can boost collaboration between human being and knowledge. We need a new breath, not starting to model what we have or what we do, but bring with us the problem and finding some new method to solve it.?

It's possible to build modern company?

I'm not an organizational psychologist or business organization expert, nor an Accenture consultant, but it's clear that in Italy, where I live and work, we have a lot of problems that affect our labor market and our companies. Knowing that I'm ignorant I refer to this Twitter?thread?for some data and more deep analysis. Here below a bullet point list of problems:

1. During the last two decades, the wages in Italy are not grown
2. Earning a Bachelor's Degree or a Master's Degree it's not useful in our market
3. Italian citizens born before 1986 are the first that are not able to earn more money than their father and grandfather.?

I am sure that a lot of people struggling with this are facing this sort of frozen situation also in their working environment. A lot of new technology and methods, but also the best business structure for knowledge companies need an always changing organization. I'm sure that there is a human capital wasted in my country, blocked by fear of change or misunderstanding of new generation. Sometimes this lack of fluidity has some strong arguments. We are earning money. We all have to remember that also Nokia and Blackberry were top earners companies. Our society needs a structural change, that needs to be brought also to our company, we need to narrow the gap between our scientists and humanists. We need to accept that the company that is strong need to be also flexible, so we can approach problems with a new point of view. We need a rolling release business structure in which transparency boosts the career and control is banned. Only following this purpose I think we can escape this negative loop and doing so the Italian entrepreneur could be the stable core of our new company operating system. New people, technologies and ideas come in with no fear and the old value of the company does not interfere with them but becomes the defender of something new.