1 Press Release E-Leaders Conference 2014 in Milan Here the final results of this international forum on new kinds of leadership By mid-July it will be possible to access the articles on the website www.g-casa.com. Milan, June, 13th 2014 – The proceedings of the conference sponsored by Chinese American Scholars Association have been completed. Speakers from Asia, Europe and the Americas have shared in-depth theories and practices of management in order to train tomorrow's leaders in fields of business, education and society. Donald Hsu, President of C.A.S.A. and Gianni Degli Antoni, Professor Emeritus and "founding father" of the Faculty of Computer Science in Milan, closed the conference, providing a valuable summary of the social and cultural phenomena in which we are a bit victim and a bit maker. Are 35 the papers presented during three days of activities. Massive the presence of women (24). The presence of entrepreneurs and professionals remained below expectations (only 6 business people present - 5 women - and only 3 Italians). <<During this Milan’s edition - sums Paola De Vecchi Galbiati, an Italian member of CASA - eLeader Conference pointed out international interest in Small and Medium Enterprises by providing them practical solutions to develop their soft skills, i.e. those qualities and interpersonal skills that can be taught and learned, like any other discipline or profession. Train these skills, means acquiring different approaches to problem solving and cooperation. SMEs can reap considerable benefits from these innovations.>> <<This kind of events are imbued with scientific rigor, and this, of course, does not attract a lot of people, but - says De Vecchi Galbiati - we believe this step is necessary to give a solid base to new approaches. We intend to expand our proposal: CEOs, HR managers, CIOs and CMOs through these events can learn information about what is going on at the international level in organization, technology, social sciences and economics.>> She concludes: <<The next step will be to simplify our content management system, in order to make it more interesting and attractive to market we serve: SMEs. It is through cultural contamination and cross-fertilization that we arise the most innovative ideas and disruptive ones.>> *****************************
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Press Release
E-Leaders Conference 2014 in Milan Here the final results of this international forum on new kinds of leadership
By mid-July it will be possible to access the articles on the website www.g-casa.com.
Milan, June, 13th 2014 – The proceedings of the conference sponsored by Chinese American Scholars Association have been completed. Speakers from Asia, Europe and the Americas have shared in-depth theories and practices of management in order to train tomorrow's leaders in fields of business, education and society. Donald Hsu, President of C.A.S.A. and Gianni Degli Antoni, Professor Emeritus and "founding father" of the Faculty of Computer Science in Milan, closed the conference, providing a valuable summary of the social and cultural phenomena in which we are a bit victim and a bit maker. Are 35 the papers presented during three days of activities. Massive the presence of women (24). The presence of entrepreneurs and professionals remained below expectations (only 6 business people present - 5 women - and only 3 Italians). <<During this Milan’s edition - sums Paola De Vecchi Galbiati, an Italian member of CASA - eLeader Conference pointed out international interest in Small and Medium Enterprises by providing them practical solutions to develop their soft skills, i.e. those qualities and interpersonal skills that can be taught and learned, like any other discipline or profession. Train these skills, means acquiring different approaches to problem solving and cooperation. SMEs can reap considerable benefits from these innovations.>> <<This kind of events are imbued with scientific rigor, and this, of course, does not attract a lot of people, but - says De Vecchi Galbiati - we believe this step is necessary to give a solid base to new approaches. We intend to expand our proposal: CEOs, HR managers, CIOs and CMOs through these events can learn information about what is going on at the international level in organization, technology, social sciences and economics.>> She concludes: <<The next step will be to simplify our content management system, in order to make it more interesting and attractive to market we serve: SMEs. It is through cultural contamination and cross-fertilization that we arise the most innovative ideas and disruptive ones.>>
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CASA and E-Leader Conference brief
Chinese American Scholars Association (CASA) was founded for academics, managers, professionals who supported the concerns of the Chinese American issues. CASA was registered with State of New York and Internal Revenue Service (IRS code Section 501 C-3), as a not-for-profit tax-exempt organization in 1989. CASA ran 20+ workshops and conferences in the New York area with daily attendance 30 to 450 people. In 2004, emerging markets Brazil, Eastern Europe, Russia, India and China moved to the world stage. Distance Education, Entrepreneurship, E-Commerce, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, provided new and innovative ways to learning. CASA board decided to hold E-Leader conferences to address these global issues. Since 2006, CASA ran 16 successful E-Leader conferences in Asia and Europe. Speakers and local participants raved about the face-to-face exchanges between CEOs, founders, managers and professors, from diverse areas of expertise and background. E-Leader International Journal provided the online and CD-ROM publications. CASA now has 202 board members from 41 countries including Czech Republic, Germany, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, UK and USA.
The aim of E-Leader conference is to train tomorrow's leaders in teaching and research in the following areas: Arts, humanities, psychology, social science, business, finance, management, marketing, computer, engineering, information system, education and instructional technology, health services and physical sciences.
E-Leader Conference 2014 - Milan, June 2014 – Summary (issued by Paola De Vecchi Galbiati)
To facilitate the contents’ analysis of eLeader Conference 2014 in Milan, we tried to classify the presentations and scientific articles according to four main dimensions:
- The specific discipline in which the research is part - The phenomena analyzed by each research - The context in which they are born and grow - The kinds of leadership that they promote
And we got the framework set out below: the items listed relate to the themes and topics that firms and schools need to pay attention and feel more involved.
June, 3rd – first day of congress – we have discussed about: intellectual property, sustainability, marketing and communication styles and roles, collaborative democracy and net-organization. June, 4th we have analyzed from different perspectives what kind of soft skills the future leaders have to train and develop: Clean Thinking, Transparency and Honesty, Intellectual Property, Tolerance, Neuroleadership. Last day, June 5th, we have shared presentations in process and tools to train the future leaders: Happy Enterpreneur Mind Set, Holistic Leadership, eLearning, Integrity in Business, Technologies and Applications to train Collaboration and Co-Creation.
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The summaries produced by the various speakers are referred to studies, researches or experiments made around the world: most represented universities and businesses was from United States, with over 10 papers, followed from Italy, Czech Republic, UK, Slovenia and Singapore. Among the young scientists, I mention the work of Barbara Grah (PhD in Economics, University of Ljubljana) on “Neuro-Leadership and integrative learning”: an interesting perspective on how organizations can implement a cultural ecosystem through a collaborative approach to problem solving. Among the entrepreneurs, I report Melonie Karen Gould, business woman, mentor and sponsor of many innovative companies, who presented her research and organizational framework “Happy Enterpreneur mind set”, a useful help to those who want to reshape their own way of doing business in this time of disrupting changes. The rapid evolution of digital world is producing innovations not only in the field of products and services, but also in the systems of reference we use to learn and to interact with the world around us. In a recursive way, we refine our knowledge and in parallel, we are changing also the vision of the world and the actions we can do in order to be a part of it.
