(Finance) – The memories, the teachings, the values learned during the university period which influenced his entire professional career. As reported by FS News, the CEO of the FS Group Stefano Donnarumma he returned toUniversity of Salernoamong whose desks he graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1993. And he did so on the occasion of one of the events organized by the university to celebrate its eighty years of history. A special day for the former student Donnarumma, awarded with a special recognition for the goals achieved during his professional life. To receive the award also Raphael Gigantinocountry manager Google Cloud Italia ed Helium SlaveCEO of TIM Enterprise.
During the event, Stefano Donnarumma spoke to the students who pressed him with questions about his past as a student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salerno and on his present as a company manager. “The university experience – confided Donnarumma – taught me to develop three qualities: first of all that of in-depth capacity. In my time there was no web and the research was carried out on texts where the sources had to be cross-referenced, really getting to the bottom of the issues and understanding the origins of the phenomena. Another quality that the university experience left me as a legacy – continued the CEO of Ferrovie – was the development of sense of community. In the faculty, students form a community in various forms that teaches you collaboration and dialogue. And then another quality that I learned during my university years was the value ofambitionthe pure and beautiful one of a boy whose greatest intent was to one day be called “engineer”.
And in this regard the managing director of Ferrovie reminds the students of a anecdote: “the professor with whom I graduated, after the graduation session, with a joke complimented us for having graduated that day in “engineering examology”, pointing out that we would also become engineers only in the following ten years, once we started work”.
A dream realized as a young man which opened the doors to a career which saw the engineer Donnarumma at the helm of the country’s leading industrial companies. But be careful, explained the CEO of FS, “a career is made by those who dedicate themselves in life to the things they like most, not by those who plan it”. In short, at the basis of everything there is dedication, passion and obviously talent which is “that thing you recognize when something comes easy, well and you’re passionate about it”. And speaking of passion, Donnarumma offers students some advice: “learn everything you can learn, study not only to take the exam, but to acquire knowledge and try to understand what you like most”.
In his answers to the students, Donnarumma also spoke about the useful values in team management and of organizations complex. First of all, that of knowing how to delegate. “In the sense of believing that a person, one of your collaborators, one of your colleagues is the right one to do a certain thing, to entrust and therefore rely on”, explained Donnarumma, according to whom leadership is exercised “by acting as a guide, trying to organize making the best of things, communicating well, making people feel like they are part of something. My leadership style is always to bring others on board, giving the opportunity to be heard.” And in this whole process, for the CEO of FS, at the center there is the freedom to be able to make mistakes, “letting people make their mistakes, so that we can then understand how to fix things and learn more and more from all this “.