When used as affiliative humor, it can raise the morale of sales teams, but when employed aggressively as irony or sarcasm, it exacerbates stress and spoils the psychological climate of selling teams

Italian social policy hasn't evolved to deal with a greying population, so that to care for their elderly, families have to rely on the evergrowing network of personal caregivers in one out of three cases

Loyal shareholders get to have double voting rights, thanks to measures introduced in 2014 to reward longterm investors, and controlling investors also manage to dominate extraordinary shareholder meetings

The decreasing cost of generating electricity from renewables has altered the traditional business model of power utilities. But it's still too early to write off gas and coal, if security of energy supplies is to be guaranteed

New Italian companies almost never die, but they are not very innovative. It would be better to take bigger risks in more advanced sectors and know how to learn from experience and failure

Elon Musk and Tesla have become a case study on errors to avoid when a company publishes accounting information and discusses it with the experts