Together with some successful Italian and U.S. entrepreneurs we got a new company going:  Key2USA that helps European companies to start succesfully doing business in the United States. 

We have great salesmen and salespeople waiting for your products in the United States.

For more information write to info@paoloruggeri.it 

Paolo Ruggeri

I have spent the last 20 years of my life studying and researching the mechanics underlying the motivation of personnel and leaders and business owners who excelled in people management.

The product of this research was the book The New Leaders, a Leadership Manual for the 3rd Millenium Manager. The book is a collection of successful actions, best practices and useful insight into what engages people and increases their motivation and productivity. 

For more information about the book or to order a copy write to info@paoloruggeri.net 

Paolo Ruggeri

 

Today we finished to crosscheck the final copy of THE NEW LEADERS our handbook on leadership and management of personnel and we gave it to the presses. 

In a matter of weeks will be available in USA and UK. 

Paolo Ruggeri

I was re watching this video lately and, well, even if it is from late 2009, it is really current: 

Paolo Ruggeri
 

Here is a video of John Gerzema, author or Spend Shift, one of the best marketing book of 2010. In this short interview John explains how the customer has changed his spending habits after the great recession of 2009. 


Paolo Ruggeri

Today I held a presentation about leadership and people management to a great group of Bulgarian entrepreneurs in Varna. 

I was impressed as I had the chance to meet a lot of capable and motivated people. The town is beautiful and so is the scenery. I believe Bulgaria should do more marketing to let the world know about its beauty. 

The slides are attacched. 

I Thank George Naydenov for the invitation and the great organization. 

Paolo Ruggeri

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Here the italian public debt, courtesy of Istituto Bruno Leoni: 




In the italian private sector we have excellent entrepreuners and great hardworking human resources while in the public sector we have greek like politicians and public servants.

Paolo Ruggeri

Attacched you'll find the slides of the public speaking training for the Trend USA sales reps that I just delivered in Miramar (Florida). 

They have been two great days. I really enjoyed being here and know some really great people. 




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Today I gave a presentation to the Miami corporate office of Granite Transformation USA. Last year GT has been the 40th most expanding company in the US. 

As usual, when you are dealing with a great company, you always deal with great people like the ones I met in Granite Transformation.

Attached are the slide of my presentation. 

Paolo Ruggeri

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I consider myself a great friend of the United States of America. I support and cherish the ideals of freedom contained in the Declaration of Independence. Over the years I also created a lot of business and a lot of money for american companies. I consider the USA my second home.  Yet I am a supporter of Wikileaks. I support wikileaks because I believe governments, including the US government, must come clean and adopt transparency.  Mr. Manning (the whistleblower who allegedly stole the confidential cables) IMO has not been a man of honour: he broke a sacred trust. He was a soldier. He shouldn't betray his group.  The position of Julian Assange is different. I don't know the man, so I don't know if he is a good person or a bad person. I cannot tell. If he molested other women, it's not ok.  However he is right in publishing the cables. Let the governments of the world be transparent. I am against confidentiality and secrecy by governments. If their dealings are ethical why should they keep it hidden? The United States should know better. Don't prosecute Assange for publishing the cables.   Paolo Ruggeri

Even though I am focused on the operations of my italian consulting companies, lately I have had more than one request from my Italian customers to deliver services to their United States subsidiaries.  Therefore I am looking to buy a stake in a consulting company (human resource or management consulting, or sales or marketing consulting, or corporate training) located in the United States. I offer:  a) Cash for equity (up to 250k or even more, depending on the state of the company)  b) Help and support (know how, motivation and experience gained in building consulting companies that sell in excess of 10 millions usd per year).  c) European customers who have branches in the United States and are looking for consultants who know their operations. Even if you still do not have a consulting company and are just planning a start up, inquire with me by filling out the form available at www.paoloruggeri.net/pagine.asp?idp=97 Paolo Ruggeri

Lately I've had a lot of business to keep up with in Italy. My companies are growing; good consulting services and hands on speakers with practical expertise are in demand these days, so I had to cut down on my international presentations.  I reckon I'll be back up and travelling around (and posting new slides) after summer 2009.  Paolo Ruggeri

The HT Beta Test is now online in english and spanish. By taking this test you can receive an assessment of your management skills: 

http://www.paoloruggeri.it/ht_analyzer/ht_candidate_ifs_en.php    http://www.paoloruggeri.it/ht_analyzer/ht_candidate_ifs_es.php  Paolo Ruggeri  

When are we going back to normal? When is the economic downturn going to end?  I am afraid this is "the new normal" as far as business and economics are concerned.  Time to re-invent all of our companies. Like Tom Peters says, "change is not an option, it's an opportunity we can't afford to miss".  Paolo Ruggeri 

As part of a project to expand the operations of Mind Consulting in Eastern Europe, we are looking for partners in the countries of Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine.

We are looking for professionals who have a background or, even better, an already existing consulting operation in the field of human resource management, recrutiment and hiring of personnel, management consultancy for small and mid size entreprises.

Mind Consulting Italy (www.mindconsulting.it) is the leading italian human resource consulting company for small and mid size entreprises with 18 millions euro's annual turnover and over 180 consultants.

We shall establish partnership with qualified professionals which will include sharing of know-how, managing italian companies that have operations in eastern europe, and we'll integrate our recruitment business to cater to the needs of european customers.

If you have an existing consulting operation in one of the above countries, we might be able to establish a profitable, win-win, partnership.

For more information please fill out the form at http://www.paoloruggeri.net/pagine.asp?idp=97 Paolo Ruggeri