Bold Business Minds

I hate to be called Boss! Maybe because I was good at Latin and it sounds exactly like... "bos". We, in Romania, have a deep-rooted typology of “Chief” in our culture. Servility is a side effect of many decades of communism and dependence on the goodwill of others. I see many people's egos inflated by their work position like a paradoxical balloon that only contains a void. It is the result of promotion in important positions of a very special type of person. The “unfinished”, as I call them. People that bring with them too many personal frustrations and who, once fixed in higher chairs, metamorphose into not very enlightened despots. I have witnessed these changes many times and taken action when it was up to me. It is specific to smaller, family-owned companies, where nepotism is... natural, but it also exists in large corporations. There is no future for Bosses... I don't think the species will survive.  The communication, the standard of living, and the infrastruc...

As a reaction to recent opinions on COVID vaccination in Romania, I felt like writing this post.  “Why do governments (and large companies, in general) always have to overthink the solutions?” First of all, the officials are a species that by its nature is avoiding stigmas; politicians. The first reaction they have is reluctance. We live in a different paradigm, in SME, in the real world, trial, and error, adapting fast, reacting fast and serving purpose. So I would never expect from them a can-do attitude, start from something and improve the model on the run.  On top of their natural hesitation, there is a huge wave of fake news that generates resistance against vaccination. So, not only that they have to deliver the vaccine, but they have to sell it to people that live on a rather mystic base than an argumentation, logical one. They had to convince the most anchored in the past church in the world to communicate positively about vaccination. Took time and, probably, money. ...