{"id":291054,"date":"2005-05-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/flying-high-is-possible-with-the-sharing-factor-in-business\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:37:52","slug":"flying-high-is-possible-with-the-sharing-factor-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/flying-high-is-possible-with-the-sharing-factor-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFlying high is possible\u201d with the sharing factor in business"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cFlying high is possible\u201d<\/strong>
A group of young people experienced this when they met together to exchange ideas with seasoned entrepreneurs in several fruitful workshops. The entrepreneurs shared their past experiences in the business world, even the painful ones, and the youth with enthusiasm and curiosity encouraged them to live the ideals of the Economy of Communion (EoC) in an even more radical way. \u201cFrom the youth we received more than what we gave,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/strong> was the comment of one of the entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Fraternity is the \u201cplus\u201d of the EoC manager<\/strong>
The workshops were based on the talks delivered by Cecilia Cantone Manzo, president of EoC s.p.a., the society that manages the Lionello Business Park, and by Prof. Luigino Bruni, who described the ideal EoC manager, pointing out that fostering fraternity should be one of his or her positive traits along with all the other qualities required of an entrepreneur, namely the ability to risk, to innovate, and to carry out a project.<\/p>\n

A push to do business innovatively<\/strong>
A group of experts presented the typical problems that can arise, considering them from the point of view of the \u201cculture of giving.\u201d The subject proved to be of great interest to the young participants, who were struck by the novelty of such an entrepreneurship. A student from Naples remarked, \u201cComing here reinforced our will to do business, to do something new.\u201d<\/em> The youth expressed the request that a similar appointment at Loppiano be repeated every 6 months.<\/p>\n

Unexpected progress in business management<\/strong>
On April 24, the meeting opened its doors to other entrepreneurs. One of them, a native of Piedmont, Italy [a province known for its business-minded population] shared his experience saying, \u201cIn spite of the difficulties and the general economic crisis, we have seen a continuous and notable increase in sales. It\u2019s been my experience that the Gospel\u2019s \u2018hundredfold\u2019 never comes in a big, cumbersome package (the kind that winning a lottery would mean, for example), which can also ruin the harmony of normal daily life. The \u2018hundredfold\u2019 arrives in a very discreet way. Many times our financial officer \u2013 at about mid-year, for example \u2013 would warn us of a borderline situation. We would just go on working, with renewed sprint, and at year-end, to our real surprise, he would announce that beyond our every expectation, our business had made progress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economy of communion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}