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...
by Andrea Zanon | Apr 14, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
On Galateo, the Italian art of showing up right, and why soft skills are the new competitive edg There is something I experience last week I want talk about event if it hurts. A young hire, who was at a business lunch at a nice steakhouse, holding his knife and fork...
by Andrea Zanon | Mar 26, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
I have lived in forty countries. I have sat in boardrooms from Beirut to Boulder, coached executives on five continents, and watched deals close and collapse across cultures I spent years learning to read. And the single most useful thing I carry from my years growing...
by Andrea Zanon | Mar 25, 2026 | Andrea Zanon
In 1968, a barista at Bar Basso in Milan reached for the gin and grabbed Prosecco by error. He made the drink, served it, and called it sbagliato. Wrong. The client drank it. Came back for another asking un altro giro (another round). The mistake never left the menu,...
