Innovation and Strategies with Giacomo Fallucca

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Success in the pizza business isn’t just a matter of a proprietary sauce and tasty toppings. Innovation is crucial, even in a mature market. In today’s episode, we have Giacomo Fallucca. Giacomo is the CEO and second generation CEO of  Palermo's pizza.</span></p> <p><strong>How did your background inspired you to be where you are today? (05:15)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- His father was a very passionate individual, how did it affect him in life</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- I remember in high school,I was sort of like a freak, cause I didn't really know much about high school traditions. I didn't know what homecoming was. I didn't know much about prom. And I think my friends looked at me as sort of like a freakazoid. He doesn't know anything, you know, but I knew my, I knew my way around a bunch of adults and adults situations. They want to drink beer in the backseat of my car.</span></p> <p><strong>What can we do in helping others get what you want? (09:36)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Social skills, sense of pace, urgency, detail, ingenuity, logic. And so when we look at those main six traits of an individual, there's not a right or wrong, it's called the culture index or the predictive index.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- His classmates always had money in their pocket while he always borrowing the money for lunch. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Part of my engagement is looking at how I communicate emailing employees personally, checking up on them, talking to them, you know what, with Microsoft teams and the virtual, I just feel like we're more, there's definitely more communication with them.</span></p> <p><strong>How the more you don't know, that's just how you grow? (17:23)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- In the front of the pizza business, you're working with multi-billion dollar companies and it's a lot more complicated even to collect money from a retaile