Well thanks for your honest reply mate.ripper wrote:Well... the amount of burocracy and regulations, laws, local laws here in Italy is absurdly high and it is well known that this hampers foreign investments here (to oversimplify: why invest where you don't know how much time you'll take to have all the papers done and which papers are needed?).
It is also possible that Italian working culture, based on many small and medium small enterprises, where roles are not well defined and one employee has to do different tasks has an impact on bigger company: if you professionally grow up in a "unregulated" working ambient I can imagine that it might be hard to perform at 100% when you switch to a place of 1000+ workers where everything HAS to be strictly regulated. I see some small changes in the working culture, at least here in northern Italy where I live, but changes are slow and I guess it is also related to old workers retiring and younger people entering in the market and filling command positions.
I remember a Niki Lauda interview, that I can't find it now, that said that he was a little worried (ok he and Toto are always worried in interviews...) about Vettel joining Ferrari because he could bring some "german approach" to the italian working culture... I guess he wasn't totally off and sometimes we need someone that is a little more "schematic" to prevent our "italian organized chaos" to go totally out of control. We italians sometimes say that "...but we are flexible" but, while sometimes it is true, I suspect that sometimes it is a statement used to cover our chronic disorganization.
Just my two cents.
I get the feeling that it's a bit of chaos, thrown in with a different mind set, that keeps things going over there
I also get the feeling that's probably sometimes a bad thing when it comes to organising an engine department, or a F1 Team that has hundreds of people