Status update for Facebook

Has gone into retreat in a corporate monastery high up in the mountains. May not be able to connect to Facebook in the coming months. If you need to get in touch earlier, please take contact by email.

Slovenia in August

Just came back from a week-end in Slovenia. The Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, is a lovely city. Slovenia is still out of the beaten track for many tourists and the size of the city makes it easy to see most attractions walking. The country managed to get out of Yougoslavia early and was spared the war suffered by other republics, this combines by massive investments from neighbouring Austria enabled its rapid development. A castle dominates the city. On Saturday evening, I enjoyed a delicious Serbian menu at the Gostilnica Rio Momo on Slovenska Cesta. On Sunday, I visited Kopper on the Adriatic coast. The town is close to Italy and has a mix of Italian and Slavic flair. Pizzas were therefore delicious. The trip by train went through mountains and it was delightfull. Pictures of the trip have been added to Facebook and Multiply:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=293523&id=791795443&l=8f78e15173

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Global Ethics Forum

On Thursday July 2nd and Friday 3rd, I had the opportunity to attend the first conference of the Global Ethics Forum in Geneva. Most participants came from Switzerland and France. This forum is a meeting to explore and discuss responsibility whithin the economic environment. The keynote speaches were given by P. Werhane from the International Society for Business Economics and Ethics, J. Quelch from Harvard University and M. Sarabhai from Darpana for Development. Different round tables and smaller workshops helped us expand our horizon and discover various initiatives and share success stories. The Chinese vision 2030 was presented, to make China a leader in green energy whithin 30 years.

The proceedings will be made available soon on the Forums's website:
http://www.globalethicsforum.org/page.php?PAG_ID=35&LAN_CODE=EN

Beach vacation in Bulgaria

Just came back from one week of pure relaxation in Balchik on the shores of the Black see. Below are a few pictures from the area:

Living Values in Acuto

This week-end I had the privilege of attending the EBBF "Living Values" in Acuto near Rome: http://ebbf.org/living_values.html
It was a great opportunity to reflect about values at the workplace, connecting with like-minded individuals striving to increase the standard in the world. The keynote on Sunday was given by the CEO of a German aerospace company, and he explained that the first thing he deed when taking command was to improve the gender balance, having three women and three men as his direct reports. This had a positive outcome on the company and they managed to get a big contract with a large aerospace company.

Books festival in Tübingen

Today I was in Tübingen, a traditionnal university town by the Neckar river. The old town was still well preserved. Parks along the river enabled to take refuge from the heat of an early sommer day. Today there were many fairs dedicated to books, and many people were selling old ones, in addition, writers were invited to talk about their latest releases. You can see a few pictures of the town below: