Alex Havard's audio clip on Virtuous Leadership. He talks about leadership founded on character and virtue."I think the key problem we are facing today is a lack of magnanimity", he said. "Leadership is not something you are born with: it is a learned behavior."

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In this engaging interview with IESE Prof. Paddy Miller, world-famous orchestra conductor, writer and teacher Ben Zander discusses how music can teach the business world how to lead with passion and creativity, while helping others reach their full potential.

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Antropologia, Leadership, Musica, Pensare i perché

In this audio, Prof. Pablo Cardona describes how to implement a mission-based management system and the steps involved in training managers for these integrated high performance teams. www.iese.edu

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Cittadini, Leadership

As the years that pass, the person who dedicates himself to cultivating an intellectual life discovers that the quintessence of the life of the spirit is attention. Here is where the intellect and the will have a chance to exercise themselves.

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Since the desire of knowing can be disordered or immoderate, as the bodily desires of eating and drinking can also be unmeasured, the virtue of studiositas exercises restraint on the desire to know so that we not seek knowledge immoderately.

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Che cosa avrei voluto sentirmi dire il primo giorno di scuola dai miei professori o cosa vorrei che mi dicessero se tornassi studente? Ci sono così tante cose in questo mondo che non so e che voi potreste spiegarmi, con gli occhi che vi brillano, perché solo lo stupore conosce.

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You can never make a good impression on other people, until you stop thinking about what sort of an impression you’re making. Even in literature and art: no one who bothers about originality can ever be original. Whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, without caring two pence how often it’s been told before, you will nine times out of ten become original, without ever having noticed it. This principle runs through all of life from top to bottom: give up yourself and you’ll find your real self. Lose your self and you’ll save it.

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Lo europeo se podría caracterizar como una fina combinación de tres elementos: refinamiento, trascendencia y amor a la libertad. El futuro de esta síntesis, amenazada por la caída de la natalidad y por la secularización, depende de que se decida a ser de nuevo ella misma.

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As with all technological innovations, Facebook presents us with something like a double-edged sword. While it permits us to maintain friendships that otherwise would unfortunately wither away, its propensity to create and maintain such abundant friendships threatens to choke those friends that matter the most.

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Ciertamente, los mensajes tienen que ser actuales y relevantes, y los medios tienen que ser los adecuados a cada momento. Pero comunicar es más que eso. Comunicar es dirigir y por tanto, aportar visión y esperanza, lograr que las personas se comprometan y den su vida, en este caso lograr que la fe vuelva a vivirse y Dios esté presente. En este sentido, se puede decir que los problemas de comunicación de la fe suelen ser también problemas de fe.

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Si queremos hablar sobre la fe, es preciso tener en cuenta el ambiente en el que nos movemos. Tenemos que conocer el corazón del hombre de hoy —con sus dudas y perplejidades—, que es nuestro propio corazón, con sus dudas y perplejidades.

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Technology is going to keep on advancing and we are going to see smaller and more productive gadgets than ever before. The challenge is to keep redefining the line that separates the real from the virtual, developing good habits.

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Spesso la formazione degli studenti risulta composta da molti piccoli frammenti specializzati, ma dispersa e senza unità per la persona stessa e per il futuro esercizio professionale. Il lavoro di sintesi non è oggetto di formazione o educazione. Lo deve operare ciascuno per conto proprio, indipendentemente dalla comunità accademica.

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Silence and stillness are not enough for us. They might be for a little while, as an immediate escape from the din and demands of daily life. But they are means to an end rather than ends in themselves. In his Letter for World Communications Day Pope Benedict XVI shows how silence is meant to serve relationships – with God and others.

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Una de las satisfacciones que solemos tener los profesores es la de comprobar cómo nuestros alumnos van aprendiendo a hablar sobre aquello mismo que les explicamos, y ver cómo se lanzan a hablar entre ellos mismos sobre las materias que van estudiando.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Etica, Famiglia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Società

Un escaso dominio de la lengua es la consecuencia y, al mismo tiempo, la causa de un universo mental pobre; es decir, de una escasa humanización: «Hay muchos, muchísimos inválidos de habla —decía el poeta Pedro Salinas—, hay muchos cojos, mancos, tullidos de la expresión.

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Antropologia, Arte, Scienza, Cinema, Cittadini, Estetica, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Media, Società, Universitas

We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life". Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of cries, alarms, difficulties, emergencies. Plausible reasons have never been lacking for putting off all merely cultural activities until some imminent danger has been averted or some crying injustice put right. But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons.

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El hombre tiene que aprender a ser dueño de sí mediante el vencimiento y la abnegación, y con ello a ser dueño de su propio poder. La libertad que da este dominio orientará aquella seriedad hacia las soluciones verdaderas, en tanto que hoy vemos cómo se emplea en ridiculeces una gravedad casi metafísica; hará que el mero valor se convierta en fortaleza y desenmascarará los pseudoheroísmos, en virtud de los cuales se deja inmolar el hombre, fascinado por pseudoabsolutos.

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En un mundo donde el saber tiene un carácter marcadamente objetivo y despersonalizado, donde las imágenes jubilan con frecuencia al pensamiento, es completamente necesario afirmar que para convencer hay que decir lo que se tiene como propio. Sólo lo auténtico es verdad en sentido genuino: sólo lo que inspira mi libertad y nace de lo hondo de mí es verdadero y cierto.

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One of the paradoxes of digital communication is the tension between isolation and the thirst for contact with friends and colleagues. On the one hand, some seem to take refuge in virtual relations to replace direct conversations, because they lack empathy and social competence. On the other, the number of “friends” increases and the relationship to persons closer to us intensifies.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Etica, Famiglia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Società

When people believe that willpower is fixed and limited, their willpower is easily depleted. But when people believe that willpower is self-renewing — that when you work hard, you’re energized to work more; that when you’ve resisted one temptation, you can better resist the next one — then people successfully exert more willpower. It turns out that willpower is in your head.

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Alex Havard continues his discussion of magnanimity by illustrating and explaining the critical component of humility. He describes these attributes in the life of Francois Michelin.

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Etica, Leadership, Pensare i perché

Le nuove tecnologie non stanno cambiando solo il modo di comunicare, ma la comunicazione in se stessa, per cui si può affermare che si è di fronte ad una vasta trasformazione culturale.

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Antropologia, Scienza, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Etica, Famiglia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Pensare i perché, Società

Con el paso de los años quien se dedica a cultivar una forma de vida intelectual descubre que la quintaesencia de la vida del espíritu es la atención, porque en ella es donde se articulan voluntad e inteligencia.

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The discovery of new intellectual tools has brought to the fore a problem that has accompanied mankind for centuries. As we use them to gain in knowledge, we run the risk of losing depth and a capacity for reflection. A problem as old as Plato.

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More than thirty years ago, when the world was still divided in two, Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered a commencement address at Harvard University in which he noted some of the weaknesses and defects of the West. Despite the years which have passed, they continue to be relevant today and invite one to reflect about the degree to which the situation has changed and the challenges which still remain.

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Escribir, leer, volver a leer y volver a escribir: son los recursos del pensar. Escribir es poner en limpio lo pensado, leer es comprender lo pensado por otro. Ese es el telar en el que se teje nuestra vida intelectual.

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The world requires – today more than ever – enlightened, thoughtful politicians who are bold and broad-minded enough to consider things that lie beyond the scope of their immediate influence in both space and time.

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Ignoring the podium on the small stage, Alexandre Havard walked to the front of the room and stood inches from the front row. He paused, looking at the students gathered before him. “Nobody can say, ‘Leadership is not for me,’” he said. “Leadership is not a technique; it is a real life ideal. It’s about becoming who we are: Real human beings.”

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These two concepts have impacted my personal success from my educational endeavors, to my technical or engineering career, to my business,and my personnel life.

Charles T. Taylor, Ph.D., an alumnus of East Stroudsburg University ('84/M'86) and founder and executive vice president of PROTEUS Technologies, was the keynote speaker for the graduate commencement on Friday, May 7, 2010

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Comunicare la fede è un problema antico, presente nel corso dei duemila anni di vita della comunità cristiana, che si è sempre considerata messaggera di una novella che le è stata rivelata e che è degna di essere comunicata.

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Reading a book is essentially an effort on your part to ask it questions and to answer them to the best of your ability. That should never be forgotten. And that is why there is all the difference in the world between the demanding and the undemanding reader. The latter asks no questions—and gets no answers.

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The magnanimous soul rooted in goodness is able to to things not as right or wrong but as great or small. Alexandre Havard is the founder of HVLI and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Born in France, Mr. Havard is a graduate of one of France’s leading law schools, and worked as a lawyer throughout Europe. In 2007 Alexandre Havard founded the Havard Virtuous Leadership Institute (HVLI). Since 2007 he has been living and working in Paris, Helsinki, and Moscow, and regularly travels to the United States. He oversees the HVLI network and offers the Virtuous Leadership seminars to business executives, educators, public officials, and MBA students and consults with some of the largest international corporations around the world. Alexandre Havard is the author of Virtuous Leadership: An Agenda for Personal Excellence, which was published in New York by Scepter Publishers in 2007. The book is in its fourth printing in English, it has been translated into 13 other languages, including Chinese, Russian, French, Polish and Spanish.

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“Che cosa può ridare entusiasmo e fiducia, che cosa può incoraggiare l’animo umano a ritrovare il cammino, ad alzare lo sguardo sull’orizzonte, a sognare una vita degna della sua vocazione se non la bellezza?”

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Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.

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What is wrong with the world? What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right. Social science is by no means always content with the normal human soul; it has all sorts of fancy souls for sale. Man as a social idealist will say "I am tired of being a Puritan; I want to be a Pagan," or "Beyond this dark probation of Individualism I see the shining paradise of Collectivism." Now in bodily ills there is none of this difference about the ultimate ideal. No one says "I am tired of this headache; I want some toothache"…

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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos gave the Baccalaureate address to Princeton University's Class of 2010. Bezos graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He was introduced by Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman. Bezos spoke to the Class of 2010 about the difference between choices and gifts. Cleverness, Bezos pointed out, is a gift, while being kind to others is a choice. One's character, he suggested, is reflected not in the gifts one is endowed with at birth but rather by the choices one makes over the course of a lifetime.

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If judged at the time of their deaths by the results of their efforts to advance the political causes that were important to them, both Cicero and Burke were failures. Yet, it is unlikely that they could immagine the enormous influence their philosophical writings would have in years to come.

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El profesor del IESE Pablo Cardona, analiza en esta entrevista las dimensiones del conflicto. Según cuenta el profesor, el conflicto se divide en la dimensión "racional", que tiene que ver con la falta de alineamiento en las ideas, y la dimensión "emocional", que abarca ya no las ideas sino la confianza entre las partes. En la mayoría de ocasiones, estas dimensiones van unidas y en su opinión esto complica el proceso de resolución de un conflicto. El profesor de Dirección de Personas en las Organizaciones considera que el conflicto ayuda a "avanzar, a replantearse, a buscar soluciones más creativas", sobre todo cuando se trata de un conflicto más racional. Cuando la dimensión afectada es la emocional, una buena solución del conflicto puede ayudar a aprender a perdonar, a conocer las limitaciones mutuas e incluso a "entendernos mejor y querernos más". El profesor de Dirección de Personas en las Organizaciones considera que el conflicto ayuda a "avanzar, a replantearse, a buscar soluciones más creativas", sobre todo cuando se trata de un conflicto más racional. Cuando la dimensión afectada es la emocional, una buena solución del conflicto puede ayudar a aprender a perdonar, a conocer las limitaciones mutuas e incluso a "entendernos mejor y querernos más".

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Gracias, jóvenes, porque el regalo de vuestra juventud oxigena al Papa, alienta a la Iglesia y refresca un mundo sediento de ilusión y coraje.

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Al volver ahora a vuestra vida ordinaria, os animo a que guardéis en vuestro corazón esta gozosa experiencia y a que crezcáis cada día más en la entrega de vosotros mismos a Dios y a los hombres. Es posible que en muchos de vosotros se haya despertado tímida o poderosamente una pregunta muy sencilla: ¿Qué quiere Dios de mí? ¿Cuál es su designio sobre mi vida? ¿Me llama Cristo a seguirlo más de cerca?

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Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a hero.

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Cittadini, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Pensare i perché, Società, Solidarietà

Precisamente porque el mundo en el que vivimos resulta ser el mejor, sólo será factible mejorarlo con el ejercicio de la libertad personal, pero de una libertad educada, que se apoya en el fundamento de una educación y una preparación moral e intelectual, que facilita dar respuestas a los interrogantes que propone este inicio de milenio.

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Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

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Riccardo Muti was born in Naples where he studied piano at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella under Vincenzo Vitale, graduating with distinction. He was subsequently awarded a diploma in Composition and Conducting by the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi,” Milan, where he studied under the guidance of Bruno Bettinelli and Antonino Votto.

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Arte, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Orizzonti, Leadership

La contemplación religiosa y la contemplación estética son de suyo distintas, pero pueden llegar a enlazarse de un modo íntimo.

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What does solitude have to do with leadership? A leader is someone who makes tough decisions. But in order to do so, he has to know how to think for himself and he has to know himself well. This requires the ability to engage in solitary reflection.

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Chi si occupa delle dinamiche della ragione ed è a contatto con tutto ciò che riguarda la formazione dell’opinione pubblica, non può fare a meno di notare distanze colossali fra i meccanismi di formazione delle opinioni e le strutture del ragionamento che chiunque accetta come basilari.

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Dio e gli scienziati: due forze che si attraggono o si respingono? Non vi è dubbio che appena si rinuncia ai luoghi comuni e si cerca di approfondire qualcosa di più della storia, si scoprono fra gli scienziati molte personalità di grande spessore umanistico, filosofico e perfino religioso.

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Our society must recovery the sens of friendship. Besides the joy of its existence, friendship reveals itself as a key to evangelization, from the early times of Christianism. The exemple of saints let us know the two senses of this essential way of human relationship.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Orizzonti, Leadership, Pensare i perché

Nel 1985, in un incontro con i giovani dell’UNIV, Giovanni Paolo II diceva: «È un’idea molto buona fare ogni anno a Roma questa riunione internazionale di studenti di tutto il mondo, e poi è una buona circostanza per voi incontrarvi così e cantare insieme: è una grande gioia, per me è una grande gioia.»

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Su quale bilancia si pesa la vita di un uomo? Nell'uomo l'agire e l'essere sono affidati alla libertà, e libertà significa che si può fare qualcosa di giusto, ma anche di sbagliato, che si può preservare qualcosa ma anche che qualcosa si può corrompere. Qual è dunque la bilancia, e quale l'ordine? Ecco la risposta di Romano Guardini.

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Las llamadas de Juan Pablo II a recristianizar el mundo tienen que ver precisamente con aquello que le falta al mundo postmoderno: el sentido.

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Lisa spends her free time giving enthusiastic, inspiring talks to groups large and small, describing her Italian-American upbringing and how Coraggio—courage—is the common trait that enables Old World characters to trek resiliently through hardship and suffering.

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Contemporary Relativism—the stance that there is no real truth outside of the realm of the physical sciences¬—is in many ways a descendant of 19th century Liberalism. Cardinal Newman was one of the first thinkers to see the potential lethality of Liberalism's effects on religion. A good part of his life was dedicated to showing that the act of faith implies reasonable assent even while it surpasses mere reason.

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El alto aprecio que se tiene hoy de la libertad, muchas veces va de la mano con una idea incompleta de la misma: ¿basta elegir para ser ya libres?, ¿o no irrumpir en las fronteras de la libertad de los otros? ¿Es un límite contra los demás o un puente hacia ellos? El autor muestra algunas razones que pueden enriquecer nuestra idea sobre la libertad.

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Mosso dalla curiosità di Ulrich von Hutten, Erasmo decide di descrivere il suo amico Tommaso Moro. Ecco quindi la prima biografia di questo grande personaggio: umanista, Lord Cancelliere d'Inghilterra, padre, amico, martire e recentemente proclamato patrono dei governanti e dei politici. Una figura che con il suo esempio continua ad illuminare: "un uomo per tutte le stagioni".

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Famiglia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Letteratura, Società

Interview with IESE Prof. Pablo Cardona and Helen Wilkinson Leadership can be learned, say Pablo Cardona and Helen Wilkinson in their book, Creciendo como líder (Growing as a Leader), which, as the title implies, believes that leadership is a necessary process of change that starts from within. The authors review 10 key competencies of being a good leader, which they say can be developed through further education, training and coaching.

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È parte dell’essere giovane desiderare qualcosa di più della quotidianità regolare di un impiego sicuro e sentire l’anelito per ciò che è realmente grande. Si tratta solo di un sogno vuoto che svanisce quando si diventa adulti? No, l’uomo è veramente creato per ciò che è grande, per l’infinito.

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“It is plain every great change is effected by the few, not by the many; by the resolute, undaunted, zealous few”.

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The city of Madrid will shelter next year the World Youth Day. Discover the most beautiful places and we'll see you there!

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Galileo Galilei inventó el Telescopio. Lo hizo en el mes de mayo de 1609.

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Scienza, Leadership, Società

El 13 de mayo del año 323 a.C. fallece en Babilonia el rey macedonio Alejandro Magno.

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Cittadini, Etica, Orizzonti, Leadership, Società

There is a certain ambiguity to the word ‘freedom’. Some people say that to be free is to be independent—but we humans are clearly dependent on so many things. Some others think that freedom is the power to do whatever one likes—but this rather superficial definition will not resist serious scrutiny. We could rightly say that to be free is to have fulfilled all the potentialities of our nature—but this is a future freedom. In the present, freedom has to do with our personal choices, and the extent of our freedom depends on the quality of those choices.

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Antropologia, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Pensare i perché

La libertad nos permite alcanzar formas de felicidad más altas que la simple huida del dolor o el triunfo a corto plazo. En esta carta, el autor se detiene particularmente en dos de esas formas, dos actividades del alma que ponen en marcha cualidades humanas radicales. Primero, la amistad, porque “ser hombre es ser amigo de los demás”; luego la esperanza, el modo humano de encarar libremente el futuro.

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Antropologia, Arte, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Letteratura, Pensare i perché, Società

In this short essay, the author reflects on the problems and inconveniences which arise in everyday life.  Although we cannot avoid them, we are always free to transform our daily troubles into exciting opportunities.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Etica, Leadership, Letteratura

Excerpt from the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, following the first-ever democratic elections. (4'13)

"The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us."

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Cittadini, Orizzonti, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Società, Solidarietà

A group of five students of Colegio Mayor Mendaur (Pamplona, Spain), led by Miguel Josa Martinez, was the winner of the "Pigna di Bronzo" in UNIVTube 2010. With the video entitled "Christian Politicians, seeking the common good," they managed to catch the attention of the public, offering a finished product of high technical quality.

The video contains extensive interviews with university students and professors, politicians and other public personalities. The video also includes some statements of Pope Benedict XVI, wherein he emphasizes the need for a new generation of Christian politicians who, being professionally well-formed, are committed to the common good and the defense of the fundamental values of the human person.

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Una cultura cristiana, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Pensare i perché, Società, Universitas

Benedetto XVI ha salutato i più di 4.000 universitari dell’UNIV durante l’udienza di mercoledì, che si è tenuta a Piazza San Pietro. Citando san Josemaría, li ha esortati a corrispondere al Signore nella loro vita quotidiana.

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Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Media, Solidarietà, Universitas

Our current democratic society is founded on the values of the person, liberty, the dignity and responsibility of the individual, common respect, and mutual aid.  Although the modern world has claimed these values as her own creation and as the product of pure reason, they have their true origin in Christian revelation.  What will happen when our culture, which affirms these Christian ideals, definitively separates itself from Christianity?

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Antropologia, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Etica, Leadership, Letteratura, Pensare i perché, Società

Ser un directivo cristiano no sólo no es incompatible con ser un buen directivo, sino que puede ser la mejor expresión de lo que es un empresario. Esto no quiere decir que cualquier empresario o directivo que se diga cristiano es mejor directivo que los demás, sino que, de algún modo, todas las cualidades y potencialidades humanas, profesionales y técnicas del buen empresario quedan recogidas en lo que es un empresario cristiano.

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Antropologia, Scienza, Una cultura cristiana, Leadership

There are those who think one must be born to lead—that some have a knack for it and some do not, that leadership is largely a matter of temperament combined with experience. Not everyone can be a Roosevelt or a de Gaulle or a Churchill, they think. Nothing could be further from the truth. Leadership is not reserved for elite. It is the vocation not of the few but the many.

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Antropologia, Etica, Libertà, Leadership

An overview of the reasons why academic enquiry concerning man—especially in the University—continues to be one of the most important educational issues.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Letteratura, Pensare i perché, Società

La identidad cristiana no sólo es compatible con la labor del científico, sino que contribuye vigorosamente a forjar un perfil investigador de mayor hondura, solidez y motivación, capaz de afrontar con éxito los desafíos de la ciencia del siglo XXI.

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Antropologia, Scienza, Una cultura cristiana, Giovani, Leadership, Pensare i perché, Società, Universitas

Looking back to 1945 it is odd to discover the public reaction to the allies’ victory was principally marked by humility. This strikes us as odd because something has changed.

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Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Pensare i perché, Società

Harambee promotes educational programmes in Africa and about Africa – developmental projects on the sub-Saharan region and awareness-building activities elsewhere designed to encourage a positive outlook on African culture.

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Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Orizzonti, Leadership, Società, Solidarietà

The idea of "time off" is free time during the week that some companies begin to foster among the employees. The employees can dedicate this time off for activities that are fundamental in one's personal life: family, taking care of the sick, personal formation, etc. In the cases where time off was applied, it was observed that the efficiency and productivity of the employee has improved, and not diminished.

The idea of time off helps one see professional life as multi-dimensional and personally enriching, and not simply a one-way fast lane.

Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing

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Famiglia, Leadership, Società, Universitas

Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something(...) If you have a dream, you have to protect it.  People who can't do something will tell you that you can't.  If you want something, go for it.

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Libertà, Leadership, Pensare i perché

Somos libres para pensar por cuenta propia. Pero, ¿tenemos el valor de hacerlo de verdad? ¿O estamos más bien acostumbrados a repetir lo que dicen los periódicos y revistas, la televisión, la radio, lo que leemos en internet o lo aseverado por alguna persona, más o menos interesante, con la que nos cruzamos por la calle? ¿Estamos dispuestos, en definitiva, a ser o llegar a ser “filósofos”, a entusiasmarnos con la realidad y buscar el sentido último de nuestra vida?

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Antropologia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Pensare i perché

If I were to be asked what of my presidency I would want to continue: it is these intangibles more than any policy I think, at the moment, is correct for the country. Circumstances change and international trends can shift direction; new approaches may serve the country’s interests better than those I laid down. But what doesn’t change are the elements that go to make up good decisions and right policies: sincerity, integrity, solidarity, universality, and of course – in recognition of the historic verity that man proposes and God disposes – prayer.

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Cittadini, Orizzonti, Libertà, Leadership, Società

Questi piaceri, rimprovera il diavolo Berlicche, hanno fatto sì che questa anima si incamminasse verso una nuova conversione: “colui che gode veramente e disinteressatamente di una qualsiasi cosa nel mondo, per se stessa, e senza che gliene importi un fico di ciò che ne dice la gente, è per ciò stesso armato contro alcuni dei nostri più sottili modi di attaccare”.

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Antropologia, Etica, Giovani, Leadership, Letteratura

It is too easy to get distracted by the demands of life and to forget to take the time to be aware of our own thinking.

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Leadership

Non abbiate paura di apparire diversi e di venire criticati per ciò che può sembrare perdente o fuori moda.

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Una cultura cristiana, Giovani, Leadership, Solidarietà

Portare Cristo in tutti gli angoli del mondo significa, senza dubbio, impegnarsi per una nuova cultura, una nuova legislazione, una nuova moda, rispettose della dignità dell’uomo. L’apostolato non è compito di nostalgici, ma di ribelli, ed esistono molti motivi per svolgere l’impegno apostolico con spirito costruttivo.

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Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Orizzonti, Libertà, Leadership, Media, Pensare i perché

A voice for human dignity. We stand for reframing ethical and policy debates in terms of human dignity, not dollars and cents or political calculation.

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Antropologia, Arte, Scienza, Cinema, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Estetica, Etica, Famiglia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Letteratura, Media, Musica, Pensare i perché, Società, Solidarietà, Universitas

Articles, background profiles, forecasts and statistics, market and currency updates, newswires and links on 60 countries.

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Arte, Scienza, Cittadini, Etica, Orizzonti, Leadership, Media, Società

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals.

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Antropologia, Etica, Famiglia, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Società

A conversation with James B. Stenson: offers his experience and advice to university students. James Stenson is an educator, speaker and writer on family concerns. He has authored books such as Upbringing, Compass: A Handbook on Parent Leadership, Lifeline: The Religious Upbringing of Your Children and Father, the Family Protector.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Società, Solidarietà

Inaugural Conference UNIV Forum 2007. James B. Stenson spoke at Palazzo dell'Apollinare, in Rome on Tusday, April 3, 2007. Stenson is presently an educational consultant. He has a website at Parentleadership.com which offers some works on parenting.

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Antropologia, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership

Our modern day society is focused on goals rather than means. Unfortunately, the journey towards the goal comprises much more time than the moment of the actual attainment of that goal.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Etica, Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Pensare i perché, Società, Universitas

¿Por qué con frecuencia los cristianos, y sobre todo los jóvenes, se desinteresan de la política? ¿No equivale eso a desertar de una tarea clave para la sociedad? Es lo que se planteaba el secretario de la Congregación para la Educación Católica durante un seminario internacional sobre el tema “La política, forma exigente de la caridad�?.

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Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Pensare i perché, Società

En Sydney el Papa ha dicho a los jóvenes que para seguir a Cristo no hace falta ser personas extraordinarias ni perfectas, sólo se requiere estar abiertos al amor.

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Antropologia, Una cultura cristiana, Orizzonti, Giovani, Leadership, Società

En su reciente visita a Cerdeña, Benedicto XVI ha vuelto a insistir en lo que llama la “emergencia educativa�?; es decir, la necesidad urgente e ineludible de la educación. ¿Cómo educar hoy? El Papa señala algunos requisitos fundamentales.

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Antropologia, Cittadini, Una cultura cristiana, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership, Universitas

Skoll wants to change the world right now and believes film can help to do that. In less than three years he has made, among others, these films: Syriana; Good Night and Good Luck; Murderball; North Country; Fast Food Nation and An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary about global warming.

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Orizzonti, Giovani, Libertà, Leadership

Discurso de Graduación del Curso Académico en la Univerdad de Stanford el 12 de Junio de 2005. Steve Jobs. CEO de Apple y Pixar Animation.

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Famiglia, Orizzonti, Leadership

American business professionals are uninspired. Only 10% of employees look forward to going to work and most point to a lack of leadership as the reason why, according to a recent Maritz Research poll. But it doesn't have to be that way. All business leaders have the power to inspire, motivate, and positively influence the people in their professional lives.

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Leadership, Società

We offer here some issues about university life that can be explored through discussion.

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Orizzonti, Leadership, Universitas

Por utilizar una expresión del mexicano Octavio Paz, Premio Nobel de Literatura, podríamos decir que el clima en el que se mueve la institución universitaria en este comienzo de siglo es el propio de un “tiempo nublado�?. Las luces y las sombras se alternan en un panorama cultural donde, por una parte, el saber ha llegado a constituir la mercancía m´s preciada en la llamada sociedad del conocimiento y, por otra, casi nadie parece interesado en investigar la naturaleza íntima de las cosas y ganar verdades firmes acerca de lo real.

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Etica, Leadership, Società, Universitas

The university of the golden age of benefaction was surely different – a haven for disinterested scholarship, the unworldly fingering over of classical texts and arcane philosophical questions, patient of eccentricity, the object of a benevolence that asked no questions about research output, access, competitive profile and industrial investment.

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Scienza, Leadership, Universitas

Parte de la conferencia pronunciada en la Graduación de la X Promoción del Máster en Dirección de Empresas para ejecutivos, en la Universidad de Piura.

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Una cultura cristiana, Etica, Leadership