Bold Business Minds

Please Don’t Call Me Boss I hate being called “boss.” Maybe it is because I was good at Latin and the word lands badly in my ear. Bos means ox. And somehow, once you hear it, you cannot unhear it. But the problem is not the word itself. The problem is the culture behind it. In Romania, we still carry this deep, persistent, almost hereditary typology of the “Chief.” The man above. The person to whom others must adapt, bend, smile, report, wait, flatter, and occasionally fear. It is not only an organizational reflex. It is cultural sediment. Decades of communism taught people dependence. Not responsibility. Not initiative. Dependence. You waited for approvals. You read faces. You guessed moods. You learned who mattered and who did not. You understood that survival often depended less on competence and more on proximity to someone else’s goodwill. Servility became a skill. And like every skill, it was passed on. This is why the word “boss” still circulates so easily. It is used j...

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.