Get your brain in motion

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Ambassador Stefano Baldi was born in Città della Pieve (Italy) on April 8, 1961. He is a career diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OSCE in Vienna, 4 January 2021.

He was Ambassador of Italy to Bulgaria from 2016 to 2020 and previously Training Director at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affair and International Cooperation from 2011 to 2016. He was Head of the Science and Technology Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2011.

From 2006 to 2010 he was First Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the European Union, responsible for legal and financial aspects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy as Relex Counsellor.

He has also served at the Permanent Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Geneva and to the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York in charge for disarmament affairs. He has been the first head of the Statistical Office of the Ministry from 2000 to 2002.

He has lectured in with many Italian universities (Roma La Sapienza, LUISS, Roma TRE, LUMSA, Trento, Pavia, Firenze), holding seminars and courses in international affairs, particularly in multilateral diplomacy.

His most recent researches focus on diplomatic management, Social media for International Affairs and Books written by diplomats. He is author and editor of more than 30 books. His recent publications include several books on the activities of diplomats (Diplomatici, 2018) and a book on Management for diplomats (Manuale di management per diplomatici, 2016). He has also published, both in Italian and in English, the results of a comprehensive research on books written by Italian Diplomats (Through the Diplomatic Looking Glass, Diplo, 2007). His most recent books concern a photographic research on Italian Diplomatic History.

From 2013 to 2016, he has been producer and speaker of a weekly Radio Programme on Diplomats at Radio LUISS. He has a personal website and he is responsible for the Blog on Training “Diplo Learning Corner” and for the website “Immaginario diplomatico” dedicated to historical photos of Italian diplomats.

Who is the real hero

The Diplo calendar 2020  realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.

The selected quotes are by well-known as well as lesser known Italian men and women that can inspire us in our daily life.

Here is the selected quotation for the month of March

The real hero is always a hero by mistake;

he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else

Umberto Eco

 

Are you ready for more work?

One director being a kindly man, and desirous of rewarding him for his long service, ordered him to be given something more important than mere copying; namely, he was ordered to make a report of an already concluded affair, to another court: the matter consisted simply in changing the heading, and altering a few words from the first to the third person. This caused so much toil, that he was all in perspiration, rubbed his forehead, and finally said, “No, give me rather something to copy.” After that they let him copy on forever.

From Nikolai Gogol “The Overcoat”

Image source: Linus Schütz from Pixabay

Can’t find one passion?

Wondering why you just can’t seem to find your one, true passion? Feeling frustrated and disappointed in yourself because you can’t foresee yourself doing just ONE thing?
In this TEDx talk, Emma Rosen makes a good point: maybe we are not all meant to be high achievers. Maybe some of us are meant to be wide achievers.
She shares three questions to understand what is the best kind of career for you:
What skills do you want to use and enjoy using?
What do you want to get out of your work?
What kind of working environment would you like?
View the full talk to get a lot more interesting tips to get to know yourself better and understand what your passion (or passions) is (are) and how to build your career around that!

 

What can you teach a man

The Diplo calendar 2020  realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.

The selected quotes are by well-known as well as lesser known Italian men and women that can inspire us in our daily life.

Here is the selected quotation for the month of January

 

You cannot teach a man anything
you can only help him find it within himself

Galileo Galilei

 

What can you teach a man

Beware the wolf

The Diplo calendar 2019 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.

All the quotes are about animals and their behaviours, their instincts and the complexity of their social dynamics.

Here is the selected quotation for the month of November

He who makes himself a ewe the wolf eats

Proverb

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