There are moments when an entrepreneur discovers that the distance between what they thought they knew and the reality of a crisis is immense.
It is no longer about managing everyday difficulties: it feels as though the very ground beneath your feet is giving way.
In those moments, every decision weighs not only on the company, but also on one’s personal life.

A negotiated arrangement for a restructuring plan with business continuity is never just a technical or legal procedure: it is a path that lays bare the person even before the company. I learned firsthand how profoundly this can change the way we look at work, at professional relationships, and at the very concept of civil and criminal responsibility.

For this reason, if someone today is facing similar situations and would like an opinion from someone who not only studied them, but lived them and bore their consequences, they can write to me. They won’t find ready-made answers, but an entrepreneurial perspective that understands from the inside the weight and the pitfalls of such journeys.

Many of these themes are also explored in my novel The Beat of Rigel, which brings onto the narrative plane the questions and challenges that inevitably emerge when a crisis becomes a concrete experience.

Corrado Maggi
30.09.25