by Ludovico Bianchessi
There are books that teach. And then there is Beyond trainingwho disassembles. It dismantles illusions, disassembles pre -cooked formats, dismantles that lazy idea that a powerpoint course is enough to change the fate of a company (or a person). Paradoxalemnte, it works as a training course on real training. Andrea Granelli and Nicola Spagnuolo, two who have made a job and mission of the training of corporate staff, take us on a journey in contradiction on the learning highways. Where everyone runs to teach, they slow down to understand. And to remind us that training is not a magical potion but, if anything, a diet to rewrite. The book is elegant as a Harvard seminar but restless as a self -analysis session. The two authors, with the air a little out of office professors, tell us clear and round that the old managerial recipes no longer work. And that continuing to propose them is like offering minestrin in broth to those with the fever of the new world.
In a society where everything flows – and often escapes – grains and Spanish try to stop time just enough to reflect. And find out that to learn something, paradoxically, it is necessary to dismister many others. That is, it is necessary to embrace the ambiguity, trust the help, and return to have memory. Yes, memory. That faculty now evaporated under the slippery fingers of the touch screen. But also that long memory that reminds us that educating is not to train, that learning is not to perform, that knowing is not knowing “everything”, but knowing how to connect. To do this, the two authors give us a new lexicon: translation, memorability, transdisciplinarity. Difficult words to say a simple thing: that training, to work, must speak to people, leave a mark and cross the boundaries. Not only those of skills, but also those of the soul. Between Kant and Marcus Aurelio, between Umberto Eco and the digital that struggles us (but that, if used well, can help us), this book is a manual for those who cannot stand the manuals. It is a life jacket for those who sail in the daily “Normal”, the one where everything changes except the old slides. In the end, all that remains is a certainty: «Training does not make miracles. But without training there will be no future ». And then, if we really have to learn something, we learn at least to unlearn with style. Because the real trainer – Grandelli and Spanish suggest us – is not what the world explains to you. This is what teaches you to live in it. Maybe with a little more doubt. And with many more questions.
