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Are we too soft with our employees? The answer brings us an additional profit of 2% every year.

Matteo Cervelli
2 min readJan 31, 2022

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I closed the call and reflected that we had just burned €30k.

I find myself wandering in an alley in Paris. I looked at the cars parked in the street and stopped on the sidewalk. There was a bakery, and the smell of butter of the croissants permeated the atmosphere.

It would have been great if I hadn’t found out how much a trivial mistake by a designer was costing us.

In 2018 I dreamed of an organization that would enhance talent.

When I became CEO in 2018, the cash flow was so low that this created an immediate lack of finance.

We were working on building better processes through more enabled people. Mostly, I was looking for leaders to lead people to be more reliable. However, the simple concept of checking one’s work was lacking.

Suddenly, I began to wonder if I shouldn’t raise my voice and slap everyone. Was I too soft?

Should we get tougher on people and give a damn about “Belief in people”?

The error is a treasure, and I wanted to build our success on it.

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Matteo Cervelli
Matteo Cervelli

Written by Matteo Cervelli

Business Growth Engineer | I share tips to scale business, manage change and be a successful leader | My Why is to trigger people's for a beautiful world.

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