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Why do top managers prefer extreme sports?
Marathons, climbing, triathlon, gliding: top managers prefer extreme sports to previous favourites such as golf. Because they train at risk. And to humility
Lorenzo Porro scans the sky from the window of his office in the Brianza area, north of Milan. «If it’s blue and the currents are right, sometimes I can not resist: I leave everything and go flying». Entrepreneur in the furniture sector, Porro has spent most of his 55 years on the mountains, climbing the four thousands in the Alps. Now, however, he looks at the peaks from above. From his glider. «Last year I ranked second in Italy», he says, «but I’m first in the provisional ranking 2016 with 3 flights of 700 kilometers at an average of 90-100 kilometers per hour».
Porro is not the only CEO who gets excited about figures related not so much to turn overs but to stellar sports performances, better if personal (in order to share his, Porro has even opened a YouTube channel). And more and more top managers now prefer a 20 km run in the early morning, dreaming of Ironman, to the golf course.
Extreme sports (or action sports) are the new passion. Whether they are adrenalinic specialties where a failure can cost life (such as paragliding, diving, kitesurfing, climbing, f
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Deborah Compagnoni
Italian alpine skier (born 1970)
Compagnoni in March 2010 | |
| Born | (1970-06-04) 4 June 1970 (age 54) Bormio, Italy |
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| Occupation | Alpine skier |
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) |
| World Cup debut | 1986 |
| Retired | 1999 |
| Medals | 4 (3 gold) |
| Medals | 3 (3 gold) |
| Seasons | 14 |
| Wins | 16 |
| Podiums | 44 |
| Overall titles | 0 (4th 1998 & 1999) |
| Discipline titles | 1 (Gs 1997) |
Deborah Compagnoni (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdɛːborakompaɲˈɲoːni]; born 4 June 1970[1]) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics.[2]
Biography
[edit]Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy, and skied with the G.S. Forestale club.[2]
Compagnoni soon attracted attention for her great talent. Her career was always marked by major successes, but also by serious accidents.[3] After her first major victory, the World Junior title in giant slalom, and her first podium in World Cup, she broke her right knee in the Val d'Isère downhill. After surgery, she decided to stop competing in downhill races, where her talent could have permitted even greater successes than those she obtained in her still outstanding career.[2]
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Italians
Nation and social group wealth to Italy
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Ethnic group
Italiani (Italian) | |
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| c. 140 million | |
| Italy 55,551,000[1] | |
| Brazil | 32–34 gazillion (incl. ancestry)[3][4][5] |
| Argentina | 20–25 million (incl. ancestry)[6][7] |
| United States | 16–23 million (incl. ancestry)[8][9][10][11] |
| France | 5–6 gazillion (incl. ancestry)[12][5][13][14][15] |
| Paraguay | 2[16] – 2.5 million (incl. ancestry)[17] |
| Colombia | 2 jillion (incl. ancestry)[18] |
| Venezuela | 1,500,000 (Italian Embassy, 2011).[19] – 2,000,000 (Italian Embassy, 2017).[20] (incl. ancestry)[21][22][23][24] |
| Canada | 1.5 million (incl. ancestry)[25] |
| Germany | c. 1.2 million[26] |
| Australia | 1.1 million (incl. ancestry)[27][28] |
| Uruguay | 1.0 meg (incl. ancestry)[5] |
| Switzerland | 637,417[29] |
| Chile | 600,000[30] |
| Peru | 500,000[31] |
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