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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.

Read Less, Understand More

10/07/2019 /
Nowadays, the information overloaded society in which we live forces all of us to face a huge amount of information that requires a lot of time. Read faster can help us to preliminary detect the useful information and to go more quickly through them saving time. For this reason, speed reading is a skill that everybody should learn to be more comfortable and more productive in our modern society.
In this TEDx video Jordan Harry CEO of StudyFast gives some practical advice to increase the speed reading without losing details.  He says that speed reading is not a superpower but it is a skill that everyone can learn and improve. The main aspect on which the people interested in achieving better reading performances must work concerns three bad habits:
  • SUBVOCALIZATION, that consists in saying words in your head while reading;
  • REGRESSION, that implies to get to the end of a page and realize you haven’t taken in what you read;
  • FIXATIONS, that tend to create spots on what we are reading which impede our speed.

Learn to Refuse to be more Productive

03/07/2019 /
Everybody knows somebody that even if always busy figures out how to tackle unforeseen events. These people are able to be more productive and to get their job done also with a jam-packed schedule. They rely on some basic rules aimed at limiting the daily habits and practices which reduce our productivity.
All these rules revolve around a key principle: if you want to start to be productive, you must start to refuse.
In this article, Lolly Daskal explains what enormously productive people usually refuse to do:
  1. Refuse to pursue perfection;
  2. Refuse to become distracted;
  3. Refuse to let negatively drag you down;
  4. Refuse to allow others to make your decisions;
  5. Refuse to allow past failures to drag you down;
  6. Refuse to give mental space to self-limiting beliefs;
  7. Refuse to believe what you want is impossible;
  8. Refuse to become overwhelmed;
  9. Refuse to stop learning, developing and growing.
To read the full article click here
Image source: Flickr – Matt Gibson (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Winning the race

01/07/2019 /

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 July

Slow and steady,
wins the race
Aesop

What can we learn from horses?

01/06/2019 /

What can we learn from horses?

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 June

A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character
Federico Tesio

What can we learn from horses by Federico Tesio

 

For more quotes from Diplocalendar

2019 Diplocalendar is all about animals and their behaviours, their instincts and the complexity of their social dynamics. It is an invitation to pay close attention to all that nature and its beings can teach us about life; sometimes we just have to take the time to notice and be
willing to be open to new perspectives. It is a reminder that important lessons can come from anything or anyone surrounding us, including our very own pets. This Yearly calendar has become a tradition appreciated by those who have received it in the past. This is a great motivation for me to try to find new interesting ideas, quotations and images to accompany you through the year.
And never forget to ….. Count your blessings!

 

Stay focus

01/05/2019 /

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 May

If you chase two rabbits you will not catch either one ,
Russian Proverb

Leading with Humility

10/04/2019 /

Leaders are often described as powerful and headstrong individuals, certain of their position and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals or ambitions.

Recent researches have advanced  a new model for understanding and improving effective leadership: leading with humility. Scientific inquiry has shown that humility offers a significant “competitive advantage” to leaders.

Humble leaders consider their own strengths, weakness and motives in making decisions; demonstrating concern for the common good, and exercising their influence for the benefit of all.

Managers who exhibit traits of humility resulted in better employee engagement and job performance.

In this article, Gwen Moran explains how to use humility to be more effective in the following 6 ways:

1) Be open to others’ opinions;
2) Tend to others’ needs;
3) Admit mistakes;
4) Accept ambiguity;
5) Self – reflect;
6) Let people do their jobs.
Image source:  InspiredImages from Pixabay

Be orderly in life, be original in your work

03/04/2019 /

The contemplative life requires discipline and hard work, for sure. But it also seems to require some time indulging pleasures.

There is much fascinating variety in the daily habits of celebrity and creative humanists to be discovered browsing their biographies.

Monkish and lonely Nietsche used to eat incredible amounts of fruits at lunch, and a much loved beefsteak, before setting himself for long mountain walks in the Swiss Alps.

Prodigious Karl Marx was accustomed to working long hours at night, accompanied by ceaseless smoking.

Rather predictable and orderly Immanuel Kant tried to stick to the rule that he would smoke only one pipe, but the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on…

Remember Gustave Flaubert’s quote?

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Maybe, the addition of a little “bad habit” or two might help too!”

Discover more in this article of Openculture …

Source: Pixabay – Rawpixel (CC0)

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