by Andrea Zanon | Sep 19, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
This is what I notice. Entrepreneurs and executives seek efficiencies, for scale, for output. They don’t stop to call people on the phone, and they forget that the people on the other side of every trade, every negotiation, every partnership are still running on the...
by Andrea Zanon | Aug 5, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
I have watched it happen dozens of times in Venice, Roma and in Lake Garda. A line forms outside a busy trattoria, five or six tourists standing single file at the door, waiting for someone to talk to them the way you wait at airport security. Ten minutes go by,...
by Andrea Zanon | Jul 7, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Doing nothing, on purpose, is a skill the rest of us forgot Walk through an Italian town in the early afternoon and you might think something has gone wrong. The shops are shut. The streets are empty. In the one trattoria still open, a fork turns slowly against the...
by Andrea Zanon | Jun 6, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Markets reward people who move first. This is well know in investment and entrepreneurship, particularly in tech. We know it in deal flow. We know it in the race to plant a flag before the crowd arrives. Yet there is one first mover advantage sitting out there that...
by Andrea Zanon | May 4, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
Every executive reading this has a communication stack: email, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, LinkedIn messages, Zoom invites. What almost none of them have is a daily phone call. Americans send more than 2 trillion text messages annually. US smartphone users communicate via...
