Perhaps we would expect it from an editorial company, but that a construction company incentives for reading between all its employees, also reaching gratifying on the salary, is truly an unusual phenomenon. Who deserved an inspection In Mapello, area of sheds and … bricks, where the Vanoncini spa company stands. As soon as the entrance, already at the reception, scattered almost everywhere, there are books: novels, manuals, illustrated fairy tales … architect of this cultural revolution is the pro tempore president Danilo Dadda. Entering the company immediately after the surveyor diploma, he was hired by the then president Pietro Antonio Vanoncini, who had left a brilliant career in the metallurgy and scientific research sector to deal with the family business, and had hit him with him sharing values. The initiative to encourage reading among its over 90 collaborators was born three years ago, but finds its roots in Danilo Dadda’s childhood. «I grew up with the example of my mother Grazia who was a strong reader, despite having not been able to make the university and ours was a very humble family, with a bricklayer dad. But in free moments I often saw her with a book at the kitchen table, because we still didn’t have the living room. She has always encouraged me to read and if I look at my personal library I can, through the titles, retrace the phases of my life, even the bad ones. A few years ago I crossed a moment of personal crisis, I was mentally tired, demotivated, I wanted to give up everything. In an attempt to understand what was going on, I came across a company that proposed personal training for entrepreneurs and managers, starting from self -knowledge. Among the tools of this path there were also books. After finding the serenity and seeing the big change made by one of my children, who in oppositional spirit had stopped studying, but after taking him to the course he enrolled in the university, I thought of sharing some of these books with the my collaborators. From there everything started ». At first Dadda provided a list of sixty securities to choose from, offering an incentive of one hundred euros to the reader, which doubles and triples the second and third presentation, and grows further if the. Book is in English. To create a moment of confrontation and return then conceived a Book Club, where the collaborator, during the corporate coordination meetings, exposes the book read in front of his colleagues, who often let themselves be infected by the enthusiasm and decide to follow his example . Among the titles presented, Silvia recommends WinArnoldo How to treat others and get them friends, Charles IL lateral thinking… «I gave the” la “by presenting Emotional intelligence of Goleman », continues Danilo Dadda,« and then gradually from the motivational books, on
team work or personal growth, the initiative has also expanded to the fiction. And so it happens that at the Book Club we talk about the Prophet by Gibran (who was the first Book Chosen by Elisa) or novels such as Chronicle of an announced death by Márquez or L‘alchemist of Coehlo, to make some examples. Our purpose, mine and of the partner Marco Vanoncini, is to make people who work here, from the engineers to the construction site, from workers to warehouse workers, grow humanly and professionally. For me, read is one of the tools to become better people and learn to face their limits, starting from the difficulty in speaking in public ». An initiative in the beginning “falling from above”, but then became viral and certainly not only for the economic gratification. There are those who say that they have not read a book for decades and rediscovered the pleasure, those who in the coffee break can’t wait to take a novel back in hand, perhaps sheralding an apple in the manner of Agatha Christie, because in the refreshment room beyond At the machine with drinks there is always a fresh fruit basket in the name of motto Mens Sana in body body (soccer and beach volleyball tournaments included). “What I want for my collaborators and colleagues,” concludes the president, “is that they are happy”.
Vanoncini spa is a specialist in dry construction systems, where the walls are rectied by a steel frame and not bricks, with therefore anti -seismic and hyper -insulating properties. The company collaborates with the Polytechnic of Milan and contributed to the construction of the spaces of Expo 2015, the Vertical Bosco and CityLife
