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Memoirs of a Management Consultant: Brief history of my life, professional and other, told by myself. E-book. Formato EPUB Franco Guazzoni - Nexo, 2025 -
The book, in the form of an autobiography, recounts more than fifty years of the history of the profession in Italy through the experience of a business consultant. From the 1960s to the early 2000s, from Olivetti General Electric to Cegos, MIDA, Ernst & Young Consultants to Coreconsulting, the author lived through the crucial years of management consulting and consequently of Italian entrepreneurship. But these memoirs contain much more. Among much else, they tell of a whale hunt, a duel that ended badly, friendships and also football and cycling. With urbanity and irony, this account of the memories of a lifetime encompasses professional and private life, travels, achievements and some regrets.
Giuseppe Consoli Guardo. For Antonello and Zanetto: New Perspectives. E-book. Formato EPUB Giuseppe Consoli Guardo - Nexo, 2025 -
Giuseppe Consoli Guardo (1919-2010), archaeologist and art historian, in this last work retraces and clarifies the extraordinary cultural dimension that united Antonello da Messina, an artist unique in the European fifteenth century, with the Lombard fresco painter Zanetto Bugatto. The author reconstructs Antonello's youthful years, still little known, conjecturing that his hand is evident in the fresco known as the "Triumph of Death" in Palermo, alongside Zanetto and the Burgundian artist Guillaume Spicre. Consoli Guardo sees this encounter as clarifying the enigmatic connection between Antonello and Zanetto. It projected the young painter from Messina into an itinerant formative period that brought direct insights into the most important places of art of his time, in both Italy and abroad, while enjoying the hospitality of monastic bodies, in the Quattrocento centres of fertile cultural exchanges. In reviewing some well-known fifteenth-century works, Consoli Guardo reconsiders their attribution, proposing Antonello's authorship for many of them. In the case of some portraits already ascribed to the Sicilian painter, he then suggests the identification of the likenesses with famous figures in the history of the Italian Quattrocento, from Galeazzo Maria Sforza to Lorenzo de' Medici. In this volume published posthumously, Consoli Guardo opens up new perspectives for historical research, with a consideration of the contribution that Antonello da Messina made to art, not only in Italy but explicitly in Europe.
Memorie di un consulente di direzione: Breve storia della mia vita, professionale e no, raccontata da me medesimo. E-book. Formato EPUB Franco Guazzoni - Nexo, 2021 -
Il libro, nella forma dell'autobiografia, racconta oltre cinquant'anni di storia della professione in Italia attraverso l'esperienza di un consulente d'azienda. Dagli anni Sessanta ai primi decenni del Duemila, dalla Olivetti General Electric alla Cegos, alla MIDA, all'Ernst & Young Consultants alla Coreconsulting, Franco Guazzoni ha vissuto anni cruciali della consulenza manageriale e dunque dell'imprenditoria italiana. Ma in queste memorie c'è molto di più. Si narra infatti, tra le altre cose, di una caccia alla balena, di un duello finito male, di amicizia e anche di calcio e di ciclismo. Con ironia e garbo, nella trascrizione dei ricordi di una vita, trovano spazio le vicende professionali e quelle private, i viaggi, i successi e qualche rimpianto.