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The Truth Nobody Tells You: Why Real Sustainability Starts with Calm, Not Carbon Credits

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 16, 2025

Introduction: Sustainability Is Not a Strategy, It’s a Nervous System Sustainability in business has become synonymous with dashboards, ESG ratings, and CSR checklists. But the real foundation of sust...

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Documentation Is a Form of Dignity

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 15, 2025

The Dignity of the Written Word When I was a child, my grandfather, an old Engineer with ink-stained fingers, once told me: “What is not written is not real.” At the time, it felt too severe. Why shou...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 14, 2025

The Lesson Beneath the Silence When Noostech came to an end in the aftermath of COVID, it wasn’t just a company that closed. It was a moment suspended in time, complex, painful, and intimate. A chapte...

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The Ethics of Letting Someone Go

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 11, 2025

I. The Uncomfortable Question We All Avoid Let me begin not with numbers, but with a memory. It was early spring, Amsterdam still grey. I had just signed off on a termination notice, an act I had post...

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Eco-Friendly Doesn’t Mean Large Budget

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 10, 2025

The Green Illusion: When Ethics Meets Economics Let me begin with a confession. Years ago, when I first decided to “go green” with one of my companies, I did what many CEOs do: I called a sustainabili...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 9, 2025

There was a time, early in my career, when I believed I had everything under control. My calendar was color-coded. My team was aligned. My inbox was… tolerable. But I had a blind spot. A seductive one...

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Kindness Is Not Compliance

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 8, 2025

There’s a silent confusion I’ve encountered in boardrooms, Zoom calls, and coffee-stained policy documents: a strange assumption that kindness is a form of compliance . That by being nice, smiling in ...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 7, 2025

Why Your Supply Chain is a Mirror, Not Just a Mechanism Every entrepreneur I’ve ever respected eventually learns this: your company’s integrity doesn’t just live in your mission statement or in the co...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 4, 2025

The Day My Coffee Machine Became My Boss It was 06:43. The coffee machine blinked at me with its smug little light: descale now . I hesitated. Not because I didn’t know how, three buttons, ten minutes...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 3, 2025

Why I Wrote This (and Why You Might Want to Read It). A few years ago, I found myself preaching responsibility, ethics, and sustainability to CEOs, boards, and startup founders, while missing birthday...

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by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 2, 2025

Why I Let Go of the "Ownership Dream" There was a time I believed that to own meant to win. My first car, my first office, even my first espresso machine, it all felt like validation. Proof of growth....

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Why Your First Hire Defines Culture

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Jul 1, 2025

Let’s cut the poetry: your first hire isn’t just a person, it’s a precedent. And if you get it wrong, you’ve already set your company’s immune system to tolerate dysfunction. Culture Is Not a Mood. It...

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