The right move, at the right moment.

What we do

Most strategy work answers the question what. The Yijing asks a different one: when, and from which position. Shízhōng, 'the timely mean', is the classical term for acting rightly because the moment is right; it appears in the commentary on hexagram 4 and in the Doctrine of the Mean.

Our engagements follow the standards you expect from leading consulting firms: hypothesis-driven diagnosis, data, stakeholder interviews, scenarios and a clear decision architecture. On top of this we add a second lens. Each critical decision is read through the 64 situations of the Yijing—not to predict, but to surface blind spots, test timing and open the conversation a leadership team has been avoiding.

We work in Chinese, Italian and English, between Europe and Greater China, for medium and large enterprises, family businesses and the people who lead them.

Method

The Six Lines Method: how an engagement unfolds

1. 1

   Foundation

   Listen and map: interviews, data, the facts beneath the story.

2. 2

   Inner centre

   Diagnose: what is the organisation's real position and capability?

3. 3

   Threshold

   Locate the risk: where does opportunity tip into danger?

4. 4

   Approach

   Stakeholders: who is close to the decision, who is affected, who is missing?

5. 5

   Decision

   Decide with the board: options, timing and the 'great person' perspective.

6. 6

   Beyond

   Anticipate overreach: what happens if we go too far, and how we review and exit.

A binary system three centuries before the computer

In 1701 the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet sent Leibniz a diagram of the 64 hexagrams in the order attributed to Fu Xi. Leibniz recognised in it the binary arithmetic he had been developing, and in 1703 published his 'Explication de l'arithmétique binaire'. Read yang as 1 and yin as 0, from the bottom line up, and the Fu Xi order counts from 0 to 63.

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Ask a question, cast a hexagram, read it the classical way

State your question; cast with three coins, the yarrow-stalk algorithm, manual entry or numbers; find the hexagram; read the judgment and the changing lines; turn each changing line into its opposite to find the resulting hexagram, and read its judgment. Our reading engine adds the nuclear, opposite and inverse hexagrams and finds the closest cases among 720 situations.

Founder

Simon Luo Wei (罗伟) was born and raised in China and moved to Italy in his late teens; his studies and work have since spanned China, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He holds a degree in economics and management from Bocconi University, studied economics and international policy at USI Lugano and public policy and human development at UNU-MERIT Maastricht, and carried out master's-level research in philosophy and theology at the University of Lucerne. His career spans supply-chain management and corporate social responsibility in Italian luxury fashion and project work in a listed engineering and energy group; since 2015 he has been a sworn court translator and interpreter for Chinese in Milan.

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