Good2Work - announce list

Jaron M. Wiedmaier, General Director Continental Tires RUS

Jaron Wiedmaier — 2012-02-09T10:26:00+04:00

Jaron M. Wiedmaier was born in Israel in 1960. In 1987 he graduated from Otto von Guericke University (Magdeburg, Germany) where he studied Technical Engineering.

Tomasz Pawlikowski (Publicis) recommends: Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results by Bill Jensen and Josh Klein

Tomasz Pawlikowski — 2012-02-09T10:22:00+04:00

Today's top performers are taking matters into their own hands: bypassing sacred structures, using forbidden tools, and ignoring silly corporate edicts. In other words, they are hacking work to increase their efficiency and job satisfaction. Consultant Bill Jensen teamed up with hacker Josh Klein to expose the cheat codes that enable people to work smarter instead of harder. Once employees learn how to hack their work, they accomplish more in less time.

Arjan de Jongste (Philips): "We Do Not Believe In Hierarchy"

Arjan de Jongste — 2012-02-09T10:20:00+04:00

We continue talking with Arjan de Jongste, CEO of Philips Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia, about people, about his way of solving conflicts and about cultural differences of Russian employees.

Amit Sah (Citi Russia) recommends

Amit Sah — 2012-02-02T10:44:00+04:00

Amit Sah, Consumer Business Manager, Citi Russia, recommends to our Club members to look outside of their area and try to learn from great political or sports leaders. And the most important here is to find the difference that helps to break out.

Kenichiro Hibi (Sony Electronics): "I Try to Reply on All Questions that Employees Send to Me"

Kenichiro Hibi — 2012-01-31T10:10:00+04:00

We are talking with Kenichiro Hibi, Managing Director at Sony Electronics Russia & CIS, about his strongest leadership traits. We also speak about delegation, empowerment and innovation.

Noritsugu Uemura General Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. Moscow branch

Noritsugu Uemura — 2012-01-26T10:27:00+04:00

Noritsugu Uemura was born in Japan in 1957. In 1980 he graduated from Kobe University (Economics Dept.) and joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. His first assignment in the company was LVS marketing and Strategic Planning at Marketing Department of Mitsubishi Electric Nagoya Works.

Angela Cretu (Avon): "Make Them Feel the Vibe of Doing Something Meaningful Together"

Angela Cretu — 2012-01-26T10:20:00+04:00

We are talking with Angela Cretu, Group Vice-President Eastern Europe at Avon Beauty Products, about her leadership traits. Angela believes that her most important quality is the ability to be a connector for people.

Tomasz Pawlikowski (Publicis): "Leadership Is Not Only a Gift, It’s a Responsibility"

Tomasz Pawlikowski — 2012-01-24T10:51:00+04:00

We are talking with Tomasz Pawlikowski, CEO of Publicis in Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS and Greece, about his most important leadership traits, which are the abilities to inspire and guide people. He also believes that leadership is not something that can be learnt but something that people are born with.

Accredited Online Colleges on the Rise

Nick Johnson — 2012-01-19T11:36:19+04:00

The Internet is revolutionizing higher education: accredited online colleges are growing in size, traditional colleges are adopting online programs, and all trends indicate that distance learning is not only here to stay, but that it will make an unprecedented impact on the educational systems currently in place today. What kind of change will online college courses provoke in the paradigms of students, professors, and educational institutions in the coming years? Let’s take a look.

David Gray (PricewaterhouseCoopers) recommends: The Art of Action

David Gray — 2012-01-17T11:28:00+04:00

David Gray, Country Managing Partner at PwC Russia, recommends The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results by Stephen Bungay.

Arjan de Jongste (Philips): "I Not Only Manage the Brand Philips I also Manage the Brand Russia"

Arjan de Jongste — 2012-01-17T10:50:00+04:00

Arjan de Jongste, CEO of Philips Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Central Asia, believes that delegation and empowerment unlocks the potential in people and that it is important to let people do things on their own, because, otherwise, they'll lose half of their potential.

Tomasz Pawlikowski, CEO Publicis Central & Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS and Greece

Tomasz Pawlikowski — 2012-01-17T10:39:00+04:00

Tomasz Pawlikowski was appointed CEO Publicis Central & Eastern Europe in 1999 where he has lead double digit growth across the region. Under Tomasz' leadership Publicis agencies have grown robustly in every market, reaching and maintaining a Top 5 position in each. He has also created several successful Publicis Groupe brand acquisitions - mainly in the Balkans and former Yugoslavia - Saatchi and Saatchi, Zenith Optimedia to name a few.

Don Prince (CCL LLC) recommends a film by Peter Weir "Dead poets society"

Don Prince — 2012-01-11T17:15:00+04:00

Don Prince, General Director at Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC), recommends to all leaders a 1989 drama film “Dead poets society” starring Robin Williams and directed by Peter Weir. It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature.

Angela Cretu, Group Vice-President Avon Eastern Europe

Angela Cretu — 2012-01-10T11:30:00+04:00

Angela graduated from The Academy of Economic Studies, Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics in Bucharest in 1997 and in 2005 from the London Business School.

Sandeep Walia (The Ritz-Carlton): "We Ourselves Need to Be Happy to Give Happiness"

Sandeep Walia — 2011-12-15T10:36:00+04:00

Sandeep Walia, General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, is talking about managing people, "wow stories" and a way to create a great team from the very beginning.

Don Prince (CCL LLC): "We All Have Responsibility to Make the World a Better Place"

Don Prince — 2011-12-08T17:00:00+04:00

According to Don Prince, General Director at Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC), the most important values are good old fashion hard work, honesty and integrity. Also we are talking about culture difference between Russia and US.

Arjan de Jongste, General manager at Philips Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus & Central Asia

Arjan de Jongste — 2011-12-08T14:01:00+04:00

Throughout Arjan's career to date, the recurring and central themes have been driving change management and turning around businesses from losses into profit. These experiences have enabled him to develop a leadership style which is highly result-driven, but at the same time is coaching and inclusive of the teams who work for and around him.

Sandeep Walia, General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow

Sandeep Walia — 2011-12-08T10:19:00+04:00

In June 2010 Sandeep Walia assumed the role of General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow. Since July 2007 he has been responsible for the hotel’s operation as Hotel Manager and was instrumental in positioning The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow as the city’s leading hotel receiving several accolades such as “Hot Hotels 2008” by Condé Nast Traveler US, number one “Best of the Best 2008” by Robb Report US and the Crystal Boat Award winner in the category “Industry Leader” by the Moscow Government.

Bruno de Labarre (Reckitt Benckiser): "The Biggest Challenge We Have in the Russian Market Is Unpredictability of the Laws and the Regulation"

Bruno de Labarre — 2011-12-01T11:31:00+04:00

We are talking to Bruno de Labarre, General Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Russia, CIS, about discipline, culture differences of Russian employers and the most important challenge he has now.

Don Prince, General Director at Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC)

Don Prince — 2011-12-01T10:52:00+04:00

Don Prince is the General Director of Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC) in Moscow. For the past 16 years he has trained and coached thousands of managers and executives around the world in the area of leadership development. He has talked to and listened to global leaders from industry, government and other types of organizations as they discuss their leadership challenges and the skills they have developed to meet those challenges.

David Gray (PricewaterhouseCoopers): "Value Is Actually In the People"

David Gray — 2011-11-24T10:54:00+04:00

David Gray, Country Managing Partner at PwC Russia, talks about differences between generations and about what, on his opinion, is the most important value for the company, which is people – energetic, enthusiastic and inspired people.

Sandeep Walia (The Ritz-Carlton): "Behave Yourself as You Would Like Others to Behave"

Sandeep Walia — 2011-11-17T18:32:00+04:00

We are talking with Sandeep Walia, General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, about leading by example, empowerment, and why the biggest challenge he has right now is also an opportunity.

Bruno de Labarre, General Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Russia, CIS

Bruno de Labarre — 2011-11-17T15:26:00+04:00

Bruno de Labarre joined Reckitt Benckiser in 1998. At different times Mr. de Labarre hold the post of Sales Director at Reckitt Benckiser in France and Belgium and Development Director in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, India and China. Since 2002 Bruno de Labarre has been General Manager of Reckitt Benckiser Russia & CIS. Mr. de Labarre is responsible for the company's business in Russia and CIS countries.

David Gray (PricewaterhouseCoopers): "You Need to Build Up a Team that can Work like an Orchestra"

David Gray — 2011-11-10T18:16:00+04:00

We are talking with David Gray, Country Managing Partner at PwC Russia, about his leadership style and what he believes are his strongest leadership competencies.

Values of Good2Work 2.0 Defined

Yury Barzov — 2011-11-10T12:47:06+04:00

We now have draft definitions of the values of Good2Work 2.0.

They are based on an entrepreneurship curriculum developed by Michele Lansdowne, from the Salish and Kootenai tribes in Montana, and Lisa Little Chief Bryan, from the Lakota tribes in South Dakota. It focuses on the questions, choices and obstacles that entrepreneurs may face when growing their businesses in Indian country...

David Gray, Country Managing Partner at PriсewaterhouseCoopers Russia

David Gray — 2011-11-08T16:41:00+04:00

David Gray appointed Country Managing Partner at PwC Russia on 1 July 2011. Prior to this appointment, David was the leader of PwC's Energy, Utilities and Mining practice in Central and Eastern Europe. David has been working in Russia for more than 16 years and has helped build a market-leading practice.

Don Prince (CCL LLC): "The Higher Persons Go in the Organization, Typically the More Optimistic They Are"

Don Prince — 2011-11-08T16:16:00+04:00

We are talking with Don Prince, General Director at Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC), about the most important leadership competences, his special hints to develop them, and how everyone can become an optimist.

Per Wendschlag (IKEA) recommends "Meine Letzte Stunde" by Andreas Salcher

Per Wendschlag — 2011-11-08T12:38:00+04:00

Per Wendschlag, General Director of IKEA Russia and CIS, recommends the book called Meine Letzte Stunde (My Last Hour) by Andreas Salcher, the book that describes the process of living and dying, that makes you think that you only have one life to live.

Sandeep Walia (The Ritz-Carlton): "The Whole Philosophy of The Ritz-Carlton Says We Are Ladies and Gentlemen"

Sandeep Walia — 2011-11-01T18:37:00+04:00

Sandeep Walia, General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, thinks that the most important values are passion and pride, and of course, respect to the people. Also he tells us how to be an example and encourage people to make extra efforts.

Don Prince (CCL LLC): "Leaders of the Future Will Have to Work Across a Number of Boundaries"

Don Prince — 2011-10-25T17:58:00+04:00

Don Prince, General Director at Center for Creative Leadership (ССL LLC), tells us about the future of leadership, about competences that are going to be critical in next five to ten years and boundary spanning leadership.

Charter of Good2Work 2.0 Corporate Business Club

Yury Barzov — 2011-10-19T15:11:53+04:00

In a meeting of five highly successful Russian entrepreneurs several months ago an idea evolved to establish a business club with the culture of respect, trust and accountability. Membership in this club will help entrepreneurs and top executives to raise performance and competitiveness of themselves and their companies by means of efficient sharing of information, knowledge, contacts and other resources. Now the club is established. It is by memeber invitation only to ensure the highest quality of communications and shared values...

We Are Searching for Editor!

Yury Barzov — 2011-10-12T23:40:18+04:00

Good2Work Club of Leaders is seeking proactive and responsible person for the position of editor. In the process, you also will master skills of video editing.

How Steve Jobs Was Fired From Apple and Entered His Life’s Best Period

Ilya Zinenko — 2011-10-06T10:48:00+04:00

We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

Amit Sah (Citi Russia): "I Believe, It Is Important to Go Through a Crisis and Go Through the Difficult Times"

Amit Sah — 2011-09-29T10:59:00+04:00

Amit Sah, Consumer Business Manager, Citi Russia, believes that it’s very important to go through the crisis, because it helps to know a lot about your business and your people. Also we are talking about his main values and the company's culture.

Steven Geiger, Chief Operating Officer, Skolkovo Foundation

Steven Geiger — 2011-09-22T13:37:00+04:00

Steven Lawrence Geiger, Chief Operating Officer of Skolkovo Foundation, a strategic initiative of the Russian Government to accelerate diversification and growth of the Russian economy through innovative technologies and entrepreneurship.

Amit Sah (Citi Russia): "If Everybody Agree with You, There Is a Problem in Your Team"

Amit Sah — 2011-09-22T13:11:00+04:00

Amit Sah, Consumer Business Manager, Citi Russia, tells us about his strongest leadership trait, his way to pick up the right people, and stresses the importance of taking risks and making mistakes.

David Pearson, Global Director, Member Firm HR Support, of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

David Pearson — 2011-09-20T17:52:00+04:00

David Pearson is the Global Director, Member Firm HR Support, of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), effective 1 July 2011. In addition, he is working on climate change and sustainability and corporate social responsibility for DTTL. Prior to this position he was the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte CIS for four years. David has over twenty years of public accounting and private telecommunications industry experience in the US and Canada...

Amit Sah, Consumer Business Manager, Citi Russia

Amit Sah — 2011-09-20T12:55:00+04:00

Amit Sah has moved to Russia as Consumer Business Manager for Retail Consumer Bank in early 2010. Before joining Russia, he was CBM for Global Consumer Group in Thailand. He joined the Bank in 1988 after completing his postgraduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He now has over 19 years of experience with the organization.

No Roadmap, No Compass ‒ Japan country heads render orientation and guidance in an unprecedented catastrophe

Yury Barzov — 2011-09-16T10:13:59+04:00

The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 destroyed cities and villages, killed thousands of people, and resulted in the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Egon Zehnder International sat down with leaders from 45 multinational companies from different industry segments to see how they responded to a situation that most executives would find unimaginable.

Kendrick White (Marchmont Capital Partners): "The Person Is More Important Than The Technology"

Kendrick White — 2011-08-25T08:20:00+04:00

In an interview with Kendrick White, founder and CEO of the "Marchmont Capital Partners" we are talking about the development and future of innovative business in Russia, about the important of human capital in any company and how Trust and Confidence contribute to strengthening of business processes

Bruno de Labarre (Reckitt Benckiser) recommends to read books of any kinds

Bruno de Labarre — 2011-08-23T11:24:00+04:00

Bruno de Labarre, General Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Russia, CIS, recommends to read books of any kinds and explains why he doesn’t like management books, especially from America.

Kendrick White, Managing Principal of Marchmont Capital Partners

Kendrick White — 2011-08-18T15:52:00+04:00

Kendrick D. White, Managing Principal of Marchmont Capital Partners, has extensive venture capital fund management experience as well as corporate finance consulting and direct executive management experience, accumulated during his 17 years of full time work in Russia.

Per Wendschlag (IKEA): "Live the way you are!"

Per Wendschlag — 2011-08-18T13:18:00+04:00

We are talking with Per Wendschlag, General Director IKEA Russia and CIS, about ethics of the corporate life, young people and also about how orient they in a company.

Annelies van den Belt (CEO of SUP): "You Сan Сhange the Way People Look at Certain Things or Look at Themselves"

Annelies van den Belt — 2011-08-09T10:15:00+04:00

We are talking with Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP, about mistakes, creating luck in business and also about communicating with people in difficult situations.

People Marketing by Good2Work

Yury Barzov — 2011-08-02T12:13:38+04:00

Skype and YouTube brought Internet video into virtually everyone’s life...

Trust Should Be Rewarded

Marianna Gongalskaya — 2011-08-02T11:39:00+04:00

On April, 28th we started to accept applications for corporate participation in the Good2work 2.0 corporate club, which creates new type of business environment.

More than 100 Good2Work interviews with CEOs of leading local and multinational companies in Russia brought us to conclusion that lack of trust is one of the biggest problems in our business environment. Then the idea evolved to establish a business club where trust will be supported by common values of the participants. This way we can create a proprietary highly efficient business environment based on trust.

Per Wendschlag, General Director IKEA Russia and CIS

Per Wendschlag — 2011-08-01T16:44:00+04:00

The new General Director of IKEA Russia and CIS, Per Wendschlag, is together with his management team and support functions from other IKEA units implementing IKEA routines and strengthening the IKEA culture in IKEA MOS.

Steven Geiger (Skolkovo Foundation): "No Idea Is Too Crazy"

Steven Geiger — 2011-07-21T10:30:00+04:00

We are talking with Steven Geiger, Chief Operating Officer of Skolkovo Foundation, about his competencies and values that, he believes, are critical for any entrepreneur to share.

Bruno de Labarre (Reckitt Benckiser): "If You don’t Go to the Field to Check Things Yourself, then There Is no Way You’ll Understand what Is Going On"

Bruno de Labarre — 2011-07-14T11:56:00+04:00

Bruno de Labarre, General Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Russia and CIS, tells us about his strongest leadership competency, the role of communication in the company and his approach in managing people.

Annelies van den Belt (SUP): "Management Actually Is the Capital of Your Company"

Annelies van den Belt — 2011-07-07T09:49:00+04:00

Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP, is talking about successful leading, main competencies and also about challenges in business.

Annelies van den Belt (CEO of SUP) recommends Spotify

Annelies van den Belt — 2011-07-04T10:26:00+04:00

Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP, recommends a music service.

Per Wendschlag (IKEA): "It’s a Privilege to Make Mistakes"

Per Wendschlag — 2011-06-28T14:28:00+04:00

Per Wendschlag, General Director of IKEA Russia and CIS, believes that allowing people to make mistakes and letting them learn from it is better than having people that sit back and do nothing. He also believes that it is important to give people feedback and do it immediately.

Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP

Annelies van den Belt — 2011-06-15T12:14:00+04:00

Annelies van den Belt has extensive experience in managing commercial online ventures having been the managing director of ITV Broadband and previously run the commercial online division of both the Times and then the Telegraph newspaper websites.

Per Wendschlag (IKEA): "There Is One Nice Thing in Life - You Always Have a Choice"

Per Wendschlag — 2011-06-15T11:48:00+04:00

Per Wendschlag, General Director of IKEA Russia and CIS, is talking about his competencies, leadership style and also about his learning experience.

Bruno de Labarre (Reckitt Benckiser): "For Me the Key Value Is People, and It’s not just Words"

Bruno de Labarre — 2011-06-02T11:49:00+04:00

For Bruno de Labarre, General Manager at Reckitt Benckiser Russia and CIS, the company is about people. He also believes that company should act as a good citizen, and has a serious question for other CEOs about the new Russian generation.

Poll on Values Shared by Entrepreneurs and Executives

Yury Barzov — 2011-03-30T11:30:22+04:00

"What's the difference between businessmen and entrepreneurs?" asked aid to the President of Russian Federation a while ago in a meeting of businessmen, entrepreneurs, academics and state officials. Nobody gave a clear answer. Later some people claimed that entrepreneurs, unlike businessmen in general, need values to make money. And how about executives? We invite you to participate in a very simple anonymous poll on this issue. Please, find just a couple of minutes. Your opinion is important!

Ian Strickland (OBI Russia) recommends: Leading at the Speed of Growth

Ian Strickland — 2011-03-17T13:35:00+03:00

Ian Strickland, Managing Director of OBI Russia, recommends Leading at the Speed of Growth by Katherine Catlin & Jana Matthews. Book that helps CEOs and entrepreneurs reinvent their companies and themselves so they can be successful leaders of growth.

David Steer (Kraft Foods): "I’m Not Going to Sit and Reward Failure"

David Steer — 2011-03-10T16:49:00+03:00

We continue talking with David Steer, CEO of Kraft Foods in Russia, about the importance to inspire people, how the issues between people could be resolved, about compromise and risk taking.

Peter Kronschnabl (BMW) recommends: "Fish!" and "The Peter Principle"

Peter Kronschnabl — 2011-03-05T18:35:00+03:00

Peter Kronschnabl, CEO of BMW Russia, recommends to our Club members Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen, Ken Blanchard and The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull.

Ian Strickland (OBI Russia): "You’re Only Ever as Good as Tomorrow’s Results and what You Do Today Is Fundamentally Important"

Ian Strickland — 2011-03-01T12:55:00+03:00

According to Ian Strickland, Managing Director of OBI Russia, there are four core traits that he values the most: being open and honest, respect for people and awareness of what your performance needs to be.

David Steer (Kraft Foods): "Make Today Delicious"

David Steer — 2011-02-22T10:27:00+03:00

We are talking with David Steer, CEO of Kraft Foods in Russia, about inspiration, ability to be flexible in different environments and about different types of leaders.

Ian Strickland (OBI Russia) recommends: Business: The Ultimate Resource

Ian Strickland — 2011-02-17T13:59:00+03:00

Ian Strickland, Managing Director of OBI Russia, recommends Business: The Ultimate Resource is a practical one-stop resource to the world of work and careers, written by an expert team of world-class writers, for use by anyone at work.

David Steer, President and General Director Kraft Foods Russia

David Steer — 2011-02-16T12:12:00+03:00

David Steer joined Kraft Foods to head up their Russia business in December 2007. Prior to joining Kraft, he was based in the UK as Brand Director for a number of British American Tobacco's global drive brands.

David Steer (Kraft Foods): "My Reputation Worth Much More than Anything Else"

David Steer — 2011-02-15T14:30:00+03:00

David Steer, CEO of Kraft Foods in Russia, is talking about his main values and also about the issue why some people work because of fear.

Ian Strickland (OBI Russia): "When You Have Something that People Can Associate with It Becomes then the Common Denominator"

Ian Strickland — 2011-02-01T12:51:00+03:00

Ian Strickland, Managing Director of OBI Russia, believes that it is very important for business to get its DNA right. He also believes that it is valuable for the business leader to have inner self-motivation and self-improvement.

Ian Strickland (OBI Russia): "You Can Learn All about Business, but You’ve Got to Always Deliver Everything that You Learn through People"

Ian Strickland — 2011-01-25T12:46:00+03:00

Ian Strickland, Managing Director of OBI Russia, talks about his strongest leadership traits. He believes it's people management and the ability to motivate.

Ichak Adizes: "What Unites the Company Is Common Vision and Common Values"

Katia Barzova — 2011-01-18T12:12:00+03:00

We are talking with Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the world's leading experts on organizational performance and change, chairman of the board of the Adizes consulting company, about how important it is to have values in business.

Peter Kronschnabl (BMW) recommends: "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry and "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga

Peter Kronschnabl — 2011-01-13T18:00:00+03:00

Peter Kronschnabl, President of BMW Group Russia, recommends our Club members to read couple of books about management and business: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry and The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga

John Stech (Chrysler): "If You Can Admit the Weaknesses to Yourself, It's Also Good to Admit the Certain Weaknesses of Other People"

John Stech — 2011-01-13T12:00:00+03:00

John Stech, CEO of Chrysler RUS, points out what values are the key ones for him and also tells us about the amount of trust that should be put into the relation between people.

Stephen Conchie, Herbalife Vice-President, Russia and CIS

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2011-01-11T14:24:00+03:00

Stephen Conchie, Herbalife Vice-President in Russia and CIS, takes the responsibility of Herbalife strategic business development in one of the most priority regions - Russia and CIS countries. Graduated in 1993 from Manchester Metropolitan University receiving degree of bachelor of human sciences in marketing and retail (B.A. (hons) Retail Marketing.

Ichak Adizes: "What Makes You a Good Leader is not what You Know, what You Have or whom You Know but what You Are as a Person"

Katia Barzova — 2011-01-11T14:20:00+03:00

Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the world's leading experts on organizational performance and change, chairman of the board of the Adizes consulting company, tells us about leadership and explains how a person can become a true leader.

John Stech (Chrysler): "Speed Is the Ultimate Factor that We Strive for"

John Stech — 2010-12-22T12:15:00+03:00

The first competency that John Stech, CEO of Chrysler RUS, mentioned is the ability to make every member of the team to contribute to the organization, besides he talks about the decision making and the amount of responsibility that is available in his team.

Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the leading management experts in the world.

Katia Barzova — 2010-12-21T14:55:17+03:00

Dr. Ichak Adizes was selected by Leadership Excellence Journal among the top thirty Thought Leaders of America and by Executive Excellence Journal among the top thirty consultants of America. For his contribution to management theory and practice, he has been awarded ten honorary doctorates, two honorary citizenships, etc.

Joerg Bongartz (Deutsche Bank): "The Hope to Get Back to What We Had Before the Crisis Is Useless"

Joerg Bongartz — 2010-12-14T12:27:00+03:00

Joerg Bongartz, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Bank Ltd., talks to us about particularities of banking sector in Russia. We also talk about the new restrictions and how it is going to affect the banking business.

John Stech, General director of Chrysler RUS.

John Stech — 2010-12-08T13:05:00+03:00

John Stech, General Director of Chrysler RUS, 42, in 1993 got an MBA degree at University of New Hampshire, in 1989 got the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry and German, at Bucknell University.

Peter Kronschnabl (BMW): "Let Them All Share Success and Failure"

Peter Kronschnabl — 2010-12-08T12:46:00+03:00

Peter Kronschnabl, President of BMW Group Russia, is talking about his strongest traits - the ability to lead by example and the ability to give people right responsibility to take decisions. We also talk about respect and values that Peter adhere in business and life.

Joerg Bongartz (Deutsche Bank): "You Always Have to Be Yourself"

Joerg Bongartz — 2010-11-30T12:21:00+03:00

We are talking with Joerg Bongartz, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Bank Ltd., about his strongest leadership traits. Joerg believes that in his case it's credibility. He also believes that it's very important to be yourself.

Vincent Ollivier (BNP Paribas) recommends "1984" by George Orwell

Vincent Ollivier — 2010-11-30T12:20:00+03:00

"1984 by George Orwell. I think it's a key book to understand the modern world, especially the appendix. I guess, you know this book or at least what it talks about. I guess, it's not a very funny answer but it's one of the key books to understand the modern world and to position itself towards this world".

Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states.

Neil Tunstall (Indesit Rus): "It’s Useful to Know the Theories And to Listen to Business Gurus, but You Learn More Just by Listening to Your Peers from Different Industries"

Neil Tunstall — 2010-11-17T11:46:00+03:00

Neil Tunstall, General Director of Indesit Rus, shares with us challenges that his company is facing today and asks other CEOs about how to better understand the current situation in Russian economy.

Peter Kronschnabl President BMW Group Russia

Peter Kronschnabl — 2010-11-12T12:43:00+03:00

Peter Kronshnabel became President of BMW Group Russia from July 1, 2010. From 2006 he headed the division of the BMW Group in India.

Under the leadership of Mr. Kronschnabl a carefully planned market entry strategy for BMW in India was successfully executed.

Francois Poirier (Peugeot): "If We Want to Go Altogether in the Same Way,We All Have to Be Convinced that It’s the Good Way"

Francois Poirier — 2010-11-12T12:16:00+03:00

Francois Poirier, CEO of Peugeot in Russia, believes that the whole team should believe in the direction that the company should go, and the chief executive is not the only person who makes decisions. Also he tells us about the importance of personal communication between the members of the team.

David Thomas (Volvo) recommends: Up the Organization by Robert Townsend

David Thomas — 2010-11-10T16:52:00+03:00

David Thomas, President Volvo Car Russia, recommends: Up the Organization by Robert Townsend, a person who ran Avis in 1950' in America.

Neil Tunstall (Indesit Rus): "All Companies Make Mistakes but Being Able to Apologize Is what Truly Important"

Neil Tunstall — 2010-11-09T13:34:00+03:00

The most important value that Neil Tunstall, General Director of Indesit Rus, adheres to is respect. Respect for people he works with, clients. He also believes that all companies should be able to admit their mistakes and never differentiate on the quality of their products.

Erik Koebe (Credit Agricole CIB): "For Big Group Like We Are to Contradict to Moral Values Would Be Disastrous"

Erik Koebe — 2010-10-28T09:51:00+04:00

Erik Koebe, President of Credit Agricole CIB ZAO, is telling us about values that he thinks are the most important. He also tells us what he thinks about working with Russian teams, asks his question to other CEOs and tells us about most important things in his agenda right now.

Neil Tunstall (Indesit Rus): "Business Is Not a Democracy"

Neil Tunstall — 2010-10-19T11:12:00+04:00

Neil Tunstall, General Director of Indesit Rus, believes that his most important competency is being able to listen to people and value their opinion. He also believes that leader should be able to create an environment where people are not afraid to say what they think but also to know that the final decision is made by the boss.

Erik Koebe (Credit Agricole CIB): "You Need to Understand What the Individual People Are Doing on the Daily Basis, And What Ideas They Have"

Erik Koebe — 2010-10-05T10:39:00+04:00

We are talking with Erik Koebe, President of Credit Agricole CIB ZAO, about his strongest leadership traits. In his opinion, it is not just one but a combination of few different ones. We also talk about Russian specifics in the banking sector and how does he communicate these issues to the headquarters.

Joerg Bongartz, Chairman of the Board Deutsche Bank Ltd.

Joerg Bongartz — 2010-09-23T11:35:19+04:00

Joerg Bongartz is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Global Banking and has been with the bank since 1982. He is Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank Ltd., Moscow.

Vincent Ollivier (BNP Paribas): "Modern World Is Pushing Us to a Kind of Schizophrenia, Cutting Us Permanently in Two Parts"

Vincent Ollivier — 2010-09-23T11:20:00+04:00

Vincent Ollivier, Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Vostok, is telling us what values are the most important for him. He also asks his question to other CEOs and telling us what is the major challenge in his agenda now.

Francois Poirier CEO of Peugeot Russia

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2010-09-15T13:42:15+04:00

Francois Poirier is a CEO of Peugeot Russia company since 2009. He is responsible for the whole spectrum of strategic issues of development of the company on the Russian market.

Vincent Ollivier (BNP Paribas): "You Are a Rock of Will in an Ocean of Inertia"

Vincent Ollivier — 2010-09-14T14:26:00+04:00

We are talking with Vincent Ollivier, Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Vostok, about his strongest leadership traits. He believes they are: a strong will and an ability to teach.

Mission of the Club: Keep Climbing

Yury Barzov — 2010-08-23T18:45:00+04:00

More than 100 international and Russian executives and buisness founders already conducted interview with the club. They come from such companies as 3Com, 3M, Alliance Boots, Allianz, Almaz Capital Partners, Baring Vostok Capital Partners, BBDO, BNP Paribas Bank, Banque Société Générale Vostok, BMW, Center for Creative Leadership, Cisco Systems, Citigroup, Danone, Delta Private Equity Partners, Dirol Cadbury, GE Money Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Heineken, HP, HSBC, Independent Media Sanoma Magazines, Indesit, Jet Republic, Mazda, Microsoft, Nestle, Oracle, Oriflame, Robert Bosch, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sanofi Aventis, Thunderbird CBSD, Unilever, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Volvo, Western Union and more.

Vincent Ollivier, CEO of BNP Paribas Vostok Bank

Vincent Ollivier — 2010-07-22T14:48:18+04:00

Vincent Ollivier is Chief Executive Officer of "BNP Paribas Vostok" bank, a 100% structure of BNP Paribas Group, providing a full range of banking and financial services to Individuals, Small Businesses and Corporate Clients in Russia.

John E. Pepper (retired CEO P&G): "Most Important Reason of All Is That You’re Providing More Space for Great Young People to Come and Grow and Be Leaders"

Liza Barzova — 2010-07-15T11:23:00+04:00

We are talking with John Pepper, Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company and retired CEO of Procter & Gamble, about entrepreneurship and Procter & Gamble's culture of growing leaders.

Erik Koebe, President of Credit Agricole CIB ZAO

Liza Barzova — 2010-07-14T10:20:06+04:00

Erik Koebe joined Calyon Rusbank (now Credit Agricole CIB ZAO) in Moscow in March 2007 as Senior Country Officer.

Ivan Svitek (Home Credit): "Only if You Have the Personal Chemistry between People You Will Be Able to Work Together"

Ivan Svitek — 2010-07-07T10:53:00+04:00

Ivan Svitek, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Home Credit and Finance Bank, explains why he would be unable to work with the person he's not comfortable with and tells us about the challenges that he's faced with right now.

Neil Tunstall, General Director of "Indesit Rus" LLC

Neil Tunstall — 2010-06-29T12:26:37+04:00

Neil was born on April 2nd in 1968

John E. Pepper (Walt Disney Company): "Bring the Vision Alive by What You Do, Always with the Aspiration to Figure out How to Do Better, Never with the Attitude that We’ve Solved the Issue, Aren’t We Great"

Liza Barzova — 2010-06-29T11:33:00+04:00

John Pepper, Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company and retired CEO of Procter & Gamble, is telling us about the most necessary competencies a good leader should have. According to John there are few of them: ability to form a vision, ability to make right choices, ability to bring a team together along with others.

François Goupil de Bouillé, Managing Director, Nissan Motor RUS

François Goupil de Bouillé — 2010-06-29T02:47:00+04:00

François Goupil de Bouillé was born in 1957 in Beirut.

John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman of the Board, The Walt Disney Company

Liza Barzova — 2010-06-17T15:33:13+04:00

John E. Pepper, Jr., 71, has served as Chairman of the Board of the Company since January 1, 2007 and is Co-Chairman of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Ivan Svitek (Home Credit) recommends: "Winning" by Jack Welch

Ivan Svitek — 2010-06-10T11:25:00+04:00

The new book by Jack Welch called Winning is recommended to our Club members by Ivan Svitek, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Home Credit Finance and Bank.

Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC): "Being Good Work Colleagues and Being Friends Is Not That Far Apart In Russia"

Joerg Schreiber — 2010-06-08T12:07:00+04:00

Joerg Schreiber, President and Managing Director of Mazda Motor RUS, is sharing with us his opinion on cultural differences and specifics that a foreigner who comes to work in Russia has to deal with in order to succeed.

Ivan Svitek (Home Credit): "Trust Your Intuition"

Ivan Svitek — 2010-06-04T11:07:00+04:00

Ivan Svitek, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Home Credit and Finance Bank, is telling us about the importance of trusting your intuition in everything you do and about persistency in work and learning from your own mistakes.

Stefan De Loecker (Nestle): "I Don't Believe that Personal Values Can Be Different from the Ones in Business"

Stefan De Loecker — 2010-06-01T11:59:00+04:00

The next very important part in business is a set of values that allow the company to work successfully. Stefan De Loecker, CEO of Nestle in Russia and CIS, names his main values - the importance of being happy and successful.

Dmitry Konnov (Universal Music Group): "There Is No Such Music Project that can Manage Itself, It’s Like Trying to Treat a Disease Using Only Wikipedia"

Katia Barzova — 2010-05-27T16:20:00+04:00

Dmitry Konnov, managing director of Universal Music Russia, describes which requirements the person who wants to work in music industry should meet in order to be successful.

Beware of Fake Leadership

Yury Barzov — 2010-05-26T14:43:03+04:00

Some people claim that arbalests once changed the rules of war, since an inexperienced arbalester could kill a knight who had a lifetime of training. As busienss leadership is a dream career for all corporate bureaucrats, which are not very fond of life long training, there are always many people ready to by an “arbalest of leadership”. It seems there are enough who are ready to sell.

Arkady Dvorkovich, Aide to the President of Russian Federation: "Today Major Task of the State Officials Is to Demolish the Barricades between Them and the rest of People"

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2010-05-21T10:29:00+04:00

Arkady Dvorkovich, Aide to the President of Russian Federation, delivered this exclusive video master class to the Talent Pool of the United Russia political party and our club as an opening part of our joint special project "Leadership Lessons from the State". Arkady believes that the most important competencies of a state official are the ability to work in a team, the capacity to work hard as well as the ability to rapidly recover from failures and setbacks.

Stefan De Loecker (Nestle): "If I Take My Personal Situation I Don't think I'm a Specialist in Anything"

Stefan De Loecker — 2010-05-20T13:22:00+04:00

Alignment and ability to make people work in one team are the strongest competences of Stefan De Loecker, CEO of Nestle in Russia and CIS.

Dmitry Konnov (Universal Music Group): "Relationship with an Artist Is like Family"

Katia Barzova — 2010-05-14T15:19:46+04:00

Dmitry Konnov, managing director of Universal Music Russia, shares with us the essentials of his job. He believes that ability to create mutual respect between all members of an artist's team is one of the core competencies that leader in music industry should have. He also stresses out the importance of creativity and energy within the team.

David Pearson (Deloitte): "We Are Always Doing Our Best to Help Develop People, So They Can Accomplish More Than They Even Dream They Can Accomplish"

David Pearson — 2010-05-05T09:20:00+04:00

David Pearson, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte CIS, explains us how partnership concept works within his organization, and believes that developing people is the most important thing. He also asks other CEOs about how they are going to manage their people and their businesses with current improvement in the market.

Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC): "People in Russia or Another Country Like East Germany Are Very Good at Smelling When There Is Something Fishy In There"

Joerg Schreiber — 2010-04-29T10:34:00+04:00

Joerg Schreiber, President and Managing Director of Mazda Motor Rus LLC, tells us about his values. We also talk about most important challenges that he has to deal with now.

David Pearson (Deloitte): "People Want to Think That Everything Is Black or White And, as You Know, It’s Not"

David Pearson — 2010-04-23T10:50:00+04:00

David Pearson, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte CIS, believes that integrity, commitment and support are his core values.

David Thomas (Volvo): If You Are a Democratic Company You Also Have to Listen to the Organization

David Thomas — 2010-04-16T09:43:00+04:00

The main values for David Thomas, President Volvo Car Russia, are respect for people and caring about security - that are the values that are important within Volvo company since 1927. It is really Swedish, really democratic.

David Pearson (Deloitte): "People for the Most Part Want to Go in a Direction And as a Leader, I Think, It’s Critical That You Provide the Vision for Them"

David Pearson — 2010-04-14T11:00:00+04:00

David Pearson, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte CIS, believes that being optimistic is his core competency, which allows him to bring confidence in his people and help them to believe in themselves.

Ivan Svitek, Chief Executive Officer of Home Credit and Finance Bank Russia

Ivan Svitek — 2010-04-14T11:00:00+04:00

Mr. Svitek joined Home Credit Group in September 2008.

Esther Dyson: "Once I spent six months training to be a cosmonaut in Star City..."

Esther Dyson — 2010-04-09T12:36:00+04:00

Esther Dyson, an independent investor and writer, tells us about her personal values, what she believes is the right for companies to do to be socially responsible and explains why working in innovations is hard.

Joerg Schreiber (Mazda Motor Rus LLC ): "Question Yourself: How Courageous Are You In the Face of Your Boss?"

Joerg Schreiber — 2010-03-30T10:37:00+04:00

We are talking with Joerg Schreiber, President and Managing Director of Mazda Motor Rus, about his strongest competency - courage: courage to have your own opinion, courage to make a decision, courage to not walk away from the responsibility.

David Thomas (Volvo): "I'm Not Better than Anybody Else in the Organization"

David Thomas — 2010-03-23T11:58:00+03:00

The strongest leadership trait of David Thomas, President Volvo Car Russia, is involving all people in the organization into decision making process. He also thinks that the amount of the information the person has shoud not be the only thing that differs him from the rest of the people in the organization.

The Path to the Summit - Changing Focus from Product to Client

Yury Barzov — 2010-03-18T17:40:00+03:00

Is there great excitement without hard effort? Is there great reward without extraordinary challenge? Is your team going through transformation? Is it on the path of all great teams and great companies? Is it on the path to the summit? Watch the video to get inspired for change...

Esther Dyson: "On Wall Street People Think that if You Just Throw Money at Companies or You Make Mergers, You're Going to Build Something New But You’re Not – You're Just Throwing Money at Something"

Esther Dyson — 2010-03-15T17:24:00+03:00

According to Esther Dyson, an independent investor and writer, success is about doing something new that is useful, making new mistakes and learning from them. She also believes that changing culture, people working together and people taking responsibility for results is something every company needs.

John O'Keeffe (Diageo): A Question to the Leaders

John O'Keeffe — 2010-03-15T12:15:00+03:00

John O'Keeffe, Managing Director of Diageo Russia and Eastern Europe Hub, asks the leaders about the role of business in society. Esther Dyson, long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia, answers John's question and comments on social responsibility in business...

Dr. Axel Kniehl (Whirlpool CIS):"I Truly Believe the Current Booming Generation of Young Upcoming Managers in Russia is Quite Good"

Axel Kniehl — 2010-03-10T10:51:00+03:00

Dr. Axel Kniehl, Whirlpool General Manager for Russia and CIS, tells us how he copes with managing a large corporation and what the peculiarities of working in Russia are.

Esther Dyson, Independent Investor and Writer

Esther Dyson — 2010-03-09T18:35:09+03:00

Esther Dyson is a long-time catalyst of start-ups in information technology in the US and other markets, including Russia.

Dr. Axel Kniehl (Whirlpool CIS):"I will not compromise on trust and integrity just for the sake of making some additional money"

Axel Kniehl — 2010-03-05T13:14:00+03:00

Dr. Axel Kniehl, Whirlpool General Manager for Russia and CIS, clarifies his point of view concerning values in business and private life and explains which ones are crucial for him.

David Levy Thomas, President Volvo Car Russia

David Thomas — 2010-03-02T21:07:55+03:00

David Thomas was born in 1962 in Gorseinon, South Wales, UK. In 1995 he graduated from Plymouth University in Devon as BA in Business Administration, having studied business planning and organization, marketing, production management, accounting, financial planning and company law and taxation.

Three Stories on Design of Outstanding Experience

Yury Barzov — 2010-02-15T16:01:50+03:00

Understanding customer needs and behavior is the key to design of winning value proposition. Dee Cooper, Product & Service Director of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., gives outstanding examples of what should or more often shouldn't be done to deliver inclusive solution to the customer. Read and watch three stories by Dee on service differentiation.

Andrew Cranston (KPMG): For Us there Will not Be any Business Without People Believing in Our Integrity

Andrew Cranston — 2010-02-04T12:21:00+03:00

Auditor's business is much client oriented, it's impossible to run the business without people being sure in the level of integrity of the organization, believes Andrew Cranston, Senior partner KPMG Russia and CIS. In the fast changing reality of the crisis the companies must bring to the clients the ideas fitted directly for them, but not the solutions which were up-to-date a month ago.

Andrew Cranston (KPMG): "A Huge Part of Being a Leader is to Bring Energy to the Situation"

Andrew Cranston — 2010-01-22T10:46:00+03:00

Andrew Cranston, Senior partner KPMG Russia and CIS, named a set of competencies which he thinks are the most important for him - that is an IQ, EQ and DQ competencies. And in his opinion the first two cannot exist without this third component. Besides, bringing energy to the situation is also very important for a leader.

Leadership in the Rhythm of Rock'n'Roll

Yury Barzov — 2010-01-21T13:52:00+03:00

Experience new way of leadership learning – short video lessons with top executives edited as rock'n'roll music clips.

John O'Keeffe (Diageo): The role of a leader is to find where in the organization this or that person can best use his talents

John O'Keeffe — 2010-01-13T10:41:00+03:00

John O'Keeffe, Managing Director of Diageo Russia and Eastern Europe Hub, tells about the most important values which he uses in his everyday life and in business - optimizm, trust and listening to his gut.

John O'Keeffe (Diageo): "Knowing Your People Really Well You Can Get the Best out of Them"

John O'Keeffe — 2009-12-22T11:36:00+03:00

In opinion of John O'Keeffe, Managing Director of Diageo Russia and Eastern Europe Hub, when a leader surrounds himself with people who are stronger than him, it helps him to build a successful business. The other strong competency that he possess is curiosity and John even call it a fantastic trait.

Richard Gaskin (GE Money Bank): "A Good Leader Doesn't Spend Too Much Time Thinking What His Particular Strength Is"

Richard Gaskin — 2009-12-16T11:12:00+03:00

Richard Gaskin, President and CEO of GE Money Bank in Russia, names the pecularities of working with Russian colleagues and tells us about the most important leadership competence.

Dimitar Alexiev (Heineken): Mobilizing the Organization Starts from Making It a Part of Everybody's Understanding.

Dimitar Alexiev — 2009-12-11T10:17:00+03:00

The competencies which are important for Dimitar Alexiev, CEO Heineken Russia, are mobilizing people, developing the strategy of the company and applying the cultural differences of Russia into the strategy of the company.

Victor Saeijs (Nokia): "You Are Never Too Old to Learn"

Victor Saeijs — 2009-12-09T10:30:00+03:00

Victor Saeijs, Vice-President Sales Eurasia for Nokia, explains what is the main difference between product and solution sales and also shares the experience how the process of internal education is realized within Nokia structure.

Victor Saeijs (Nokia): Honesty Takes the Longest Root

Victor Saeijs — 2009-12-01T11:40:40+03:00

Being honest, transparent and true and also creating the atmosphere for innovation are very important values for Victor Saeijs, Vice-President Sales Eurasia for Nokia. He also believes that the biggest values in everybody's life are family and health and he always tells this to his colleagues.

Victor Saeijs (Nokia): I Love to See that People Really Stretch and Challenge Themselves by Going to the Situations They Are not Familiar With

Victor Saeijs — 2009-11-27T11:50:11+03:00

There are two things which are important for Victor Saeijs, Vice-President Sales Eurasia for Nokia, - getting the best out of people, whether these are individuals or teams and stretching the people he works with to achieve the utmost results.

Dimitar Alexiev (Heineken): I'm Proud to Be Green

Dimitar Alexiev — 2009-11-24T11:34:00+03:00

Dimitar Alexiev, the СЕО Heineken Russia, names the main values of his company - enjoyment, respect and passion for quality. People are proud of being part of the company, the are "proud to be green".

Richard Gaskin (GE Money Bank): "Respect for People Is a Key Quality"

Richard Gaskin — 2009-11-19T10:57:00+03:00

Richard Gaskin, President and CEO of GE Money Bank in Russia, explains the main focus of his company and claims that respect and affection for people are vitally important in business life.

Austin Kimm, President for Renaissance-Life, recommends: The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto

Austin Kimm — 2009-11-13T12:28:00+03:00

Austin Kimm, President for Renaissance-Life, recommends: The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto.

Austin Kimm (Renaissance Life): "Every Business on the Planet Has the Word Integrity In Their Set of Values"

Austin Kimm — 2009-11-11T10:32:00+03:00

Austin Kimm, President for Renaissance Life, explains to us how they make money in life insurance companies and what the main challenges for his company during the economic crisis are.

Philippe Graff (Dynargie) recommends: Win-Win-Win Management and Peak Performance

Philippe Graff — 2009-11-06T11:15:00+03:00

Philippe Graff, the founder of Switzerland-based international company Dynargie, recommends the members of our club to read a couple of books which he wrote.

Philippe Graff (Dynargie): The Company Should Maximum Have Five Values

Philippe Graff — 2009-10-26T11:29:00+03:00

The four main values for Dynargie, established 27 ears ago are courage, empathy, positive attitude and quality. Philippe Graff, the founder of the company, is willing to tell us what each of them mean for the company and for him personally.

Christian Kremer (BMW): By Challenging Your Partner You’re Challenging Yourself

Christian Kremer — 2009-10-23T11:40:00+04:00

Christian Kremer, General Manager of BMW Russia, believes that to be a successful leader you need to obtain a certain level of professionalizm and ability to motivate and challenge people of your organization to reach the targets. In his opinion, the leader is developing from the early childhood, when some children take over a lead and make the rest of their mates follow them.

Philippe Graff (Dynargie): When 27 Years Ago We Started the Company we Knew It Must be International or It Might not Exist at All

Philippe Graff — 2009-10-20T10:41:00+04:00

Philippe Graff, the founder of the Dynargie company, tells us about the strongest trait of his company and about his own.

Christian Kremer President of BMW Russia

Christian Kremer — 2009-10-19T17:39:19+04:00

Christian Kremer President of BMW Russia has started his career in BMW in 1989 as an assembling and production planner.

Adrian Marley (DHL) Recommends: Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story Of The Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny

Adrian Marley — 2009-10-15T11:57:00+04:00

Adrian Marley, General Manager, DHL Russia, recommends Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story Of The Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash

Andrew Cranston, Senior Partner, KPMG in Russia and the CIS

Andrew Cranston — 2009-10-06T15:40:57+04:00

Andrew Cranston is a Senior Partner of KPMG in Russia and the CIS, a member firm of KPMG International, a Big Four public accounting firm that provides audit, tax and advisory services. He chairs the KPMG Management Board in Russia and the CIS, and is a member of the KPMG's EMA and Global Boards.

Adrian Marley (DHL): "One of the Things I Hate Most of All Are Those People Who If You Give Them Authority Abuse It"

Adrian Marley — 2009-09-30T10:43:00+04:00

Adrian Marley, General Manager, DHL Russia, tells us about the importance of values in life and business. He explains in more detail his belief that it is very important to maintain those values and display them to people around you.

Adrian Marley (DHL): "For Me, There Are Three Things that Are the Foundation of Everything I Do: Quality, Respect and Humor"

Adrian Marley — 2009-09-28T10:27:00+04:00

Adrian Marley, General Manager, DHL Russia, tells us about the strongest leadership competency – commitment to excel. He also tells us about his three most valued management principles: quality, respect for people and humor.

Michael Calvey (Baring Vostok Capital Partners):"When There's Maximum Amount of Fear and Pessimism, It's the Best Time to Buy Businesses and to Invest"

Michael Calvey — 2009-09-23T10:18:00+04:00

Michael Calvey, Co-Managing Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, believes that poor economic situation is a good environment for putting money to work in investments and tells us about his main challenges.

Adrian Marley (DHL): "Problems Rise When Somebody Thinks They Are Better Than Everybody Else Because of the Size of Their Degree or Their MBA"

Adrian Marley — 2009-09-21T11:44:00+04:00

We discuss humor with Adrian Marley, General Manager, DHL Russia. He explains why he thinks humor is important in business and how he approaches it.

John O'Keeffe, Managing Director of Diageo Russia and Eastern Europe Hub.

John O'Keeffe — 2009-09-18T15:27:42+04:00

John O'Keeffe joined Diageo Ireland in 1994, where he spent 5 years in various marketing roles. Last 3 years of this assignment John was responsible for Guinness, the famous iconic beer brand in Ireland.

Michael Calvey, Baring Vostok Capital Partners, Co-Managing Partner

Michael Calvey — 2009-09-14T12:35:07+04:00

Michael Calvey is the founder and Co-Managing Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, the largest private equity firm focused on Russia and the CIS.

Michael Calvey (Baring Vostok Capital Partners):"I'm More Like the Coach of a Team or the Trainer of a Team than I am the Lead Player on the Field"

Michael Calvey — 2009-09-14T10:37:00+04:00

Michael Calvey, Co-Managing Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, claims that passion and energy are the most important qualities a successful manager should possess and also mentions the capacity to motivate and inspire other people.

Jean-Luc Duramy (DuPont): Safety Is Like Glue Between People

Jean-Luc Duramy — 2009-09-07T11:50:00+04:00

Jean-Luc Duramy, Director DuPont Eastern and Central Europe, is telling the members of our club about the values which are significant to him in business and everyday life. He believes that safety is the value that is unique for DuPont all over the world.

Jean-Luc Duramy (DuPont): My Job Is to Make all These Dots Connected

Jean-Luc Duramy — 2009-08-31T10:31:00+04:00

Being a connector between people is the strongest competency of Jean-Luc Duramy, Director DuPont Eastern and Central Europe. "It's like building a football team - you need to make sure you have players with different competencies who play in different parts of the field", he says.

Adrian Marley, Managing Director, DHL Express CIS & South East Europe

Adrian Marley — 2009-08-27T10:39:00+04:00

Adrian Marley joined the company in 1994 in Nigeria. He has also held senior management positions in various functions in DHL in Cote d'Ivoire (Area Quality Director), Belgium (Director of Road Freight for European Emerging Markets) and Russia (as CIS Operations Manager and Russia Country Manager).

Steve Strachota (Cadbury): "You Want to Be Able to Operate in a Way that Your Employees Will Respect and that People Won’t Question"

Steve Strachota — 2009-08-24T10:26:00+04:00

Fairness and integrity are the most important guiding values for Steve Strachota, Managing Director of Cadbury Russia and CIS. He believes that if an organization follows those two principles then everything else will also fall on place.

Jean-Luc Duramy, Director DuPont Eastern and Central Europe

Jean-Luc Duramy — 2009-08-19T13:23:11+04:00

Mr. Duramy is the Eastern and Central Europe Regional Director in DuPont. He has focused his career on emerging markets, where he spend considerable amount of his time. He was named in his current position in DuPont in June 2008.

Radoslav Vojnovic (Atlas Copco): "As a Company, We Are Always Trying to Be Good Citizens in a Country where We Operate"

Radoslav Vojnovic — 2009-08-19T09:56:00+04:00

Loyalty, integrity and the sense of responsibility are the most important values for Radoslav Vojnovic, Vice President Holding, Russia, Managing Director, ZAO Atlas Copco. He believes that there is no deal, which is worth of losing reputation of the company.

Austin Kimm (Renaissance-Life): "The Technicalities of Our Business Are Not Difficult; What Is Difficult Is the People Side"

Austin Kimm — 2009-08-13T11:39:00+04:00

Austin Kimm, President for Renaissance Life, enumerates the key aspects of forming the right team and tells us about his key leadership principles.

Steve Strachota (Cadbury): "You Do Need to Look Forward and You Need to Look Ahead, Because You Need to Know what’s Coming around the Next Corner and Be Able to Anticipate and React"

Steve Strachota — 2009-08-12T10:53:00+04:00

Steve Strachota, Managing Director of Cadbury Russia and CIS, believes that envisioning, communication and energizing the team are his main competencies, and it is very important for a leader to learn how to sell the vision that you’ve created to the employees.

Steve Strachota, Managing Director Cadbury Russia and CIS

Steve Strachota — 2009-08-04T12:33:00+04:00

Steve Strachota is the Managing Director for "Cadbury" with operations in Russia and CIS. He has been in Russia for about 5 years, serving first as the Finance and Strategy Director until fall 2006 when he was promoted to lead the business.

Radoslav Vojnovic (Atlas Copco): "Only Competent People Can Achieve the Goals, Therefore, Our Strategy Is to Attract, Retain and Develop People"

Radoslav Vojnovic — 2009-08-04T10:30:00+04:00

Radoslav Vojnovic, Vice President Holding, Russia, Managing Director, ZAO Atlas Copco, tells us about the leadership model that his organization has and about how important it is to develop people within the company.

Radoslav Vojnovic, Vice President Holding, Russia, Managing Director ZAO Atlas Copco

Radoslav Vojnovic — 2009-07-29T11:01:45+04:00

As dedicated manager for ZAO Atlas Copco issues and with his broad experience in Russia and CIS countries Radoslav Vojnovic contributes for creating and supporting structured platform for Atlas Copco Group's development in Russia and neighboring countries and promoting all types of synergy opportunities among Atlas Copco Group Business Areas' operations.

Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic):"We've Moved Business Aviation in the same Way as We Saw when We Went from the Sony Walkman to the Apple iPod"

Jonathan Breeze — 2009-07-27T10:09:00+04:00

Jonathan Breeze, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Jet Republic, tells us about the values he shares within his organization, about what he believes works best for his company, and in few simple words explains us what Jet Republic is about.

Shannon Cullum (Saatchi & Saatchi): "I Don’t Know If I’m a Challenge Junky But I Like To Wake Up Everyday With a Certain Amount of Uncertainty"

Shannon Cullum — 2009-07-22T11:11:00+04:00

Shannon Cullum, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Russia, believes that integrity is a core value in operating business and that it is very important to protect it because once you lose it you might never be able to get it back. Shannon also tells us about his personal values that guide him in life.

Steve Strachota (Cadbury) Recommends: Every Day Activist: Everything You Need to Know to Get Off Your Backside & Start to Make a Difference by Michael Norton

Steve Strachota — 2009-07-15T13:15:41+04:00

Steve Strachota, Managing Director of Cadbury Russia & CIS recommends Every Day Activist: Everything You Need to Know to Get Off Your Backside & Start to Make a Difference by Michael Norton

Shannon Cullum (Saatchi & Saatchi): "One of the Things That We Set Out To Do Is To Have Our People Be Permanently Inspired Which Is Obviously Very Lofty Goal But There Are Things You Can Do"

Shannon Cullum — 2009-07-15T09:58:00+04:00

Shannon Cullum, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Russia, thinks that one of the most important traits for a leader is to have an unwavering goal in the mind that people should keep getting to despite different challenges they can meet on their way to it. We also talk about the importance of the inspiration and how to keep people be permanently inspired.

Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic): "This Is About Performance and if You Can Get That in People's Heads, if They Realize that It's About the End Goal Doing It as a Team, Doing what They Meant to Do and Caring about It – You've Won, in Any Business"

Jonathan Breeze — 2009-07-07T11:32:00+04:00

We are talking with Jonathan Breeze, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Jet Republic, who believes that not a single business can survive without clear defined levels of authority, passion about what you’re doing, precision, unity within your company and good performance. He also implies how to avoid bad choices of the rewards for the employees, and believes that it is better to promote his people in accordance with their behavioral skills rather than technical.

Shannon Cullum, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Russia

Shannon Cullum — 2009-06-29T12:51:00+04:00

Shannon brings over 17 years of experience in Canada, the United States and Asia Pacific; working with some of the world’s most respected marketers and brands, including, Procter & Gamble, Danone, Kellogg’s, Budweiser, Carlsberg and Levis.

Jonathan Breeze (Jet Republic):"It Is Better to Have a Bad Leader than No Leader at All"

Jonathan Breeze — 2009-06-29T12:25:00+04:00

Jonathan Breeze, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Jet Republic, believes that one of the main strengths of a good leader is being able to energize his team as well as being capable of getting right people to form the right team.

Values vs Profits: 400 Harvard MBA Graduates Voluntarily Took a Hippocratic Oath to Serve Greater Good

Yury Barzov — 2009-06-26T17:58:22+04:00

The question remains: Is it really hippocratic or just hypocritic? While top executives suddenly began to spend large ammonts from their remuneration on charity - does it mean they really care? True or False? There are inspiring lessons on values in our library. Watch them to feel the true value of values.

Jonathan Breeze, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Jet Republic

Jonathan Breeze — 2009-06-26T16:38:00+04:00

Jonathan is Chief Executive Officer and founder of Jet Republic. He has considerable experience in providing high quality and bespoke services to wealthy individuals and businesses, having launched new companies and services in the private aviation and luxury markets.

Peter Loukianoff (Almaz Capital Partners): The Best Companies Allow Their Employees to Grow Within the Structure

Peter Loukianoff — 2009-06-09T10:25:00+04:00

We are talking with Peter Loukianoff, Managing Рartner of Almaz Capital Partners, about the peculiarities of partnership based organizations, about the process of taking decisions in such organizations and about values which are important for Peter.

Owen Kemp (HP): Respect is the Basis for Communication

Owen Kemp — 2009-05-29T10:42:00+04:00

Respect and politeness, contribution, striving for something better and the need for adventure are the core value for Owen Kemp, Vice-President Hewlett-Packard and Managing Director HP Russia. In his opinion, it's important to be surrounded by different types of personalities in order to achieve goals. He also tells us what is unique about HP and what is the number one priority for today for his company.

Alex Gourlay (Alliance Boots): "I Get Up Every Single Morning Really Unsatisfied With how I Perform"

Alex Gourlay — 2009-05-27T10:53:00+04:00

Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive, Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots, UK, is speaking on how to be clear about the future and on understanding what is happening in the business at the moment. Alex explains why he is happy to work for business with high social responsibility.

Straight from the Founders: What Does It Take to Build Sustainable Business from Scratch?

Yury Barzov — 2009-05-25T10:59:01+04:00

Many start-up businesses are launched every year. But only few make it to the top. Is it just luck? Or well thought business idea? Or it is due to passion and stamina of business founders? And how about their ability to energize others by painting bright pictures of the future? We discovered that atop of the above business founders know how to explain complicated matters in most simple way. Watch them talking on success in business leadership.

Hannes Shariputra Chopra (Allianz Rosno): "Behave in Such a Way that if People Copy Your Behavior You Shouldn't Be Ashamed"

Hannes Chopra — 2009-05-22T10:52:00+04:00

Hannes Shariputra Chopra, CEO of Allianz Rosno in Russia, tells us about the management style he applies in his organization, about the governance and decision making process established in Allianz Rosno a few years ago and about a mixture of Eastern and Western styles of management that he believes works best.

Peter Loukianoff (Almaz Capital Partners): It's Hard for a Manager to Scale the Business if He Is too Detailed

Peter Loukianoff — 2009-05-20T11:26:00+04:00

Peter Loukianoff, Managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners, tells the participants of our Club about his strongest leadership trait - the empathy to the entrepreneur. We talk whether it's necessary to know the tiniest details of the business and how Almaz Capital Partners choose the companies to invest.

12 (TRUE or FALSE) Leadership Lessons From the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise

Yury Barzov — 2009-05-19T20:01:34+04:00

Kit Eaton (http://www.fastcompany.com/) on May 8^th, 2009 wrote: "There are great lessons to be learned from the words of these men who sit in the Captain's chair. Apply the wisdom of Starfleet's finest to your strange new world of business and you too will manage well and prosper". We tried to find out what our featured leaders think on the leadership wisdom from Star Trek...

Owen Kemp (HP): If a Human Being is Responsible for Something - It Has to Become Better

Owen Kemp — 2009-05-18T10:50:00+04:00

It is unacceptable for Owen Kemp, Vice-President Hewlett-Packard and Managing Director HP Russia, to hear that something cannot be done. So, he thinks that change is one of the most important factors of success in everything. He describes two his somewhat controversial competencies - being both an anarchist and an optimist.

Corporate Subscription to Good2Work Leadership Lessons

Yury Barzov — 2009-05-13T15:01:00+04:00

We offer unlimited corporate access via Internet or intranet and customization of our lessons library to your corporate competency model.

Alex Gourlay (Alliance Boots): "Don't Pretend You Have the Answer When You Don't"

Alex Gourlay — 2009-05-13T11:48:00+04:00

Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive, Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots, UK, believes that his strongest leadership trait is consistency and explains how to be consistent in the changing environment.

Peter N. Loukianoff, Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners.

Peter Loukianoff — 2009-05-13T11:34:00+04:00

Prior to co-founding Almaz Capital Partners, Mr. Loukianoff was a partner at Alloy Ventures from 2001-2008, one of the more successful and longest-established venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.

Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich, Aide to the President of Russian Federation

Yury Barzov — 2009-05-12T17:59:00+04:00

Born on March 26, 1972, in Moscow. 1994 - Graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in economic cybernetics and from New Economic School (Moscow). 1997 - Graduated Duke University (USA) as Master in Economics.

Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive of the Health & Beauty Division, Alliance Boots

Alex Gourlay — 2009-05-12T12:19:00+04:00

Alex Gourlay, Chief Executive of the Health & Beauty Division , Alliance Boots. Alex Gourlay was appointed Chief Executive of the Health & Beauty Division and a member of the Board of Directors of Alliance Boots GmbH in January 2009. He is also Managing Director of Boots UK, with responsibility for Health & Beauty.

Hannes Shariputra Chopra (Allianz Rosno): "Micromanagement Is not a Negative Word for Me"

Hannes Chopra — 2009-05-07T12:01:00+04:00

Passion and energy combined with intelligence - are the core competencies for Hannes Shariputra Chopra, CEO of Allianz Rosno in Russia. He also names sustainability and ability to see the details of the business as two of the most important features for a leader to possess and gives us some examples how these competencies are realized in his everyday activities.

Hannes Shariputra Chopra, Head of Allianz Eurasia, CEO - Chairman of the Board of OJSC IC ROSNO

Hannes Chopra — 2009-05-06T10:41:00+04:00

Hannes S. Chopra was born in Bonn, Germany.

Mr. Chopra had been working in Allianz AG since January 1996. He has been holding the position as OJSC IC ROSNO CEO since May 1, 2007.

Sanjiv Kakkar (Unilever): "It's Important for the Leader to Set the Ego Aside"

Sanjiv Kakkar — 2009-04-29T11:23:00+04:00

The right balance between successful business and happy family life is the best source of energy for Sanjiv Kakkar, President of Unilever in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. He is also telling us about the most important challenge his company is faced with right now and the ways his team is dealing with this challenge.

Our First Anniversary (UPDATED 30/04/09)

Yury Barzov — 2009-04-24T23:17:48+04:00

We are one year old. We have taken 200 video lessons on leadership. One third is in English. Three fourths are with CEOs and business founders. Leading industries are IT, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Retail and Consulting. In 2009 we launched a new theme - lessons with the state authorities. Aid to the President Arkady Dvorkovich ranked among top ten most influential people in Russia opened this theme in the club. We'll do our best to become more useful and more fun. Stay tuned.

Marc-Emmanuel Vives, President and General Manager of Bank Societe Generale Vostok

Marc-Emmanuel Vives — 2009-04-24T15:59:12+04:00

Marc-Emmanuel Vives has been the President and General Manager of Bank Societe Generale Vostok since August, 2006 till January, 2009.

Owen Kemp (HP): Communication Can only Happen with a Relevant Level of Curiosity and Education

Owen Kemp — 2009-04-22T11:17:00+04:00

The strongest leadership competencies of Owen Kemp, Vice-President Hewlett-Packard, Managing Director HP Russia, are the ability to communicate, to understand the counter parts, to have some empathy for their situation, as well as to be able to gather information from the communities he works with. Owen recalls some examples how his competencies helped him to build successful business for HP in Russia.

Owen Kemp HP Russia Managing Director Vice-President, Hewlett-Packard

Owen Kemp — 2009-04-16T16:17:32+04:00

Owen Kemp has a solid experience in executive management. For the past 30 years he has been committed to HP in various positions and on multiple tasks. Mr. Kemp's recent leadership roles prior to his current position include Vice President and General Manager of HP Worldwide Finance for the Financial Services Industry vertical (2001-2004), General Manager of Business Customer Sales Organization for the International Sales Europe Region (1998-2001).

New in Content Policy

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2009-04-15T19:22:00+04:00

In order to further upgrade quality and candor of our video conversations we have decided to imply limitations to the access to the club's proprietary video content for non registered visitors.

Marc-Emmanuel Vives (BSGV): "You Can’t Trust Something That Is not Clear to You"

Marc-Emmanuel Vives — 2009-04-14T10:10:00+04:00

Marc-Emmanuel Vives, General Manager of BSGV, believes that the fair business can be built only by living the values and principles of transparency and respect for people. People feel the attitude towards them and they will never believe anything that is not clear to them.

Sanjiv Kakkar (Unilever): "Good Leaders are Valued for High Level of Clarity on the Ultimate Destination"

Sanjiv Kakkar — 2009-04-08T11:11:00+04:00

Sanjiv Kakkar, Chairman of Unilever company in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine, believes that clarity and the ability to galvanize and infect the team with the energy and passion to work are most important traits of a leader.

While Many Companies Still Fight for Survival Some Are Already out in the Market Going after the Larger Market Share (Good2Work Club of Leaders February-March 2009 Survey Major Findings)

Yury Barzov — 2009-04-03T18:53:15+04:00

Almost a quarter of Russian and international companies in the Russian market economy sector are confident in their current business models and are improving operational efficiency with an explicit target to significantly increase their market share. Another 10% are confident and clear about the measures they are taking to protect their current market standing. It may be considered as an indicator that the structuring of the markets around the old and new leaders will soon began.

Sanjiv Kakkar, Chairman, Unilever Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Sanjiv Kakkar — 2009-04-01T18:47:38+04:00

Mr. Sanjiv Kakkar was appointed Chairman, Unilever Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, with effect from September 1, 2008.

Marc-Emmanuel Vives (BSGV): "We Are in the Country Where Relationship is the Essence of Business"

Marc-Emmanuel Vives — 2009-03-31T10:58:00+04:00

Marc-Emmanuel Vives, General Manager of BSGV, believes that good personal relations are the base of successful business. He also tells us about other important values which help him to create the productive atmosphere in his company.

Marc-Emmanuel Vives (Rosbank): "Going into Details Is not Losing Contact With Reality"

Marc-Emmanuel Vives — 2009-03-25T10:54:00+03:00

Three main leadership traits - long-term thinking, attention to the details and attention to people - are the milestones in work for Marc-Emmanuel Vives, Vice-President of Rosbank.

Jonathan Knaus (Western Union): "I Can Never Work in the Environment Where I Couldn’t Laugh in"

Jonathan Knaus — 2009-03-23T11:14:00+03:00

Humor, in the opinion of Jonathan Knaus, Regional Vice-President for Eastern Europe ans CIS, is very valuable in business. Also we speak about honesty and integrity - the values which are extremely important in the changing environment.

Some People (Updated March 10, 2009)

Yury Barzov — 2009-03-10T20:02:00+03:00

We keep asking leaders about competencies which they believe are most important. Again there is nothing anti-crisis specific. The key is how well and how consistently leaders apply their competencies in practice. Here we've put together a first special collection of practical advice from club members.

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Yury Barzov — 2009-03-10T15:35:08+03:00

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Jonathan Knaus (Western Union): "Finding a Labor of Love Through Passion"

Jonathan Knaus — 2009-03-10T11:04:00+03:00

Jonathan Knaus, Regional Vice-President in Eastern Europe and CIS of Western Union, names passion as his strongest leadership trait. He believes that a good leader should broadcast his passion towards work on the day-to-day basis and create the atmosphere for initiative.

Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "I Believe in the Future and I Believe in Change"

Dee Cooper — 2009-03-03T10:19:00+03:00

We are talking with Dee Cooper, Product & Service Director of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., about possibility for a leader to be arrogant and about her personal values which she shares in business and life.

Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "I Think We Probably Get Our Hands a Bit Dirtier and More Detailed Than Other Leaders".

Dee Cooper — 2009-02-20T09:58:00+03:00

Dee Cooper, Product & Service Director of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., who has worked for Virgin Atlantic 14 years already, tells us how her team understands the competition, about their innovative ideas and about the peculiarities of creative leaders.

Jonathan C. Knaus, Regional Vice-President in Eastern Europe & CIS of Western Union

Jonathan Knaus — 2009-02-19T11:18:04+03:00

Jonathan C. Knaus is a Regional Vice-President in Eastern Europe & CIS of Western Union. The new position extends Jonathan's responsibility adding other markets in Eastern Europe for him to oversee. Until this appointment Jonathan was Regional Vice-President Russia and CIS for two years.

Dee Cooper (Virgin Atlantic): "You Have to be Clear if the Avenue is Not Worth Exploring Further"

Dee Cooper — 2009-02-19T10:02:00+03:00

Dee Cooper, Product & Service Director of Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd, tell us about her strongest leadership trait - being the part of the team she works with. The leader has to be able to communicate to the members of the team what she likes and what she dislikes in the ideas proposed by the team and moreover, the leader must not be afraid of getting deep into details of the business.

René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "We Need Values to Keep the Ship More or Less Steady and in the Right Direction"

René Schlegel — 2009-02-12T10:30:00+03:00

René Schlegel, Head of Robert Bosch in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, believes that values within the company are very important and explains to us why and what values does his company adhere to.

Derk Sauer (IMSM): “The Main Thing about Management Is to Make Things Which Seem to Be Complicated Very Simple”

Derk Sauer — 2009-02-10T11:23:00+03:00

Derk Sauer, Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Independent Media Sanoma Magazines, is telling us how he has fun and makes profit by working with independent people and living the principles.

Filip Kegels (Danone): "It's Much Better to Say "I Have a Problem, Let's Try to Fix It" than to Hide the Problem Until It Explodes in Your Face"

Filip Kegels — 2009-02-09T08:54:00+03:00

Filip Kegels, General Director, Russia & CIS, tells us about values which are important to him - openness and enthusiasm, and why they are important. He also tells us what, in his opinion, the company should have in order to be successful and how he does it in Danone.

Steven Fisher (Citi): "If You Misstep and You Hurt Your Reputation the Cost Could Be Incalculable"

Steven Fisher — 2009-02-05T13:13:00+03:00

We are talking with Steven Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head, Citi Russia & C.I.S., about reputation, values and crisis.

Michael Crow (GlaxoSmithKline): "You Have to Know When You Should Just Let Go and Trust People"

Michael Crow — 2009-02-04T10:33:00+03:00

Michael J. Crow, Vice President and General Manager of GlaxoSmithKline Russia, believes integrity is fundamental for the company and it is vitally important to trust your team.

Dee Cooper, the Director of Product & Service at Virgin Atlantic Airways

Dee Cooper — 2009-02-03T09:25:04+03:00

Dee is responsible for creating the strategy for all classes of travel, driving the new developments to deliver top quality product and services supporting the Virgin brand. In January 2009 Virgin Atlantic has won a top industry award for its customer service.

Derk Sauer (IMSM): Give Creative People Enough Room to Be Stars

Derk Sauer — 2009-02-03T09:09:00+03:00

Derk Sauer, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Independent Media Sanoma Magazines, believes his strongest leadership trait is the ability to create environments where creative people can be successful.

René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "I Think I Never Met Anybody in Whom I Couldn’t Identify Something This Person Is Good at"

René Schlegel — 2009-02-02T10:21:00+03:00

René Schlegel, Head of Robert Bosch in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, believes that the three main leadership traits that he posses are: to be adaptable, to know how to identify what not to do and to believe that everybody is good at something.

Filip Kegels (Danone): "We Should Really Give People that Are Working in Your Company the Perspective Why They Should Get Up Every Morning and Start Working Very Hard for Your Company besides Just Getting a Salary"

Filip Kegels — 2009-01-30T10:41:00+03:00

Filip Kegels, General Director, Danone Russia & CIS, is telling us about what he thinks every leader should do - make employees be passionate about their jobs. He also explains why it is important; how he does it in Danone and how it helped him to make his company a market leader.

Michael Crow (GlaxoSmithKline): "Your Most Creative Moments Can Be When You Have a Breakdown"

Michael Crow — 2009-01-28T10:17:00+03:00

Michael J. Crow, Vice President and General Manager of GlaxoSmithKline Russia, believes that his strongest competency is resilience - the ability to never give up and to never lose out of sight the vision he is committed to.

Steven Fisher (Citi): "Animals Need to Adapt to Changing Environments to Survive; Businesses Need to Adapt to Changing Environment Also to Survive"

Steven Fisher — 2009-01-22T09:27:00+03:00

We are talking with Steven Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head, Citi Russia & C.I.S., about inclusion and communication which are, in his opinion, parts of commitment. We also talk about changing environments and how companies should react in such situations in order to survive.

Derk Sauer, Chairman of Supervisory Board of the Publishing House Independent Media Sanoma Magazines

Derk Sauer — 2009-01-21T10:49:00+03:00

Derk Sauer was born in 1952 in Holland. He started his journalistic career in 1970 as a Belfast correspondent of Dutch Broadcasting Company - VPRO. Two years later he became the editor of a publication of soldier's union - "Twintig". In 1975 Mr. Sauer became a co-founder of a Television Production Company "Tilt Film".

René Schlegel (Robert Bosch): "It’s Very Important in Leadership to Identify What Not to Do"

René Schlegel — 2009-01-21T10:05:00+03:00

René Schlegel, Head of Robert Bosch in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, tells us more about his competencies, particularly, about the ability to define what should not be done and ability to see what other people are good at. "It’s Very Important in Leadership to Identify What Not to Do"

Filip Kegels (Danone): "I Could Not Function Without Enthusiasm, Energy and Dynamism"

Filip Kegels — 2009-01-16T10:02:00+03:00

Filip Kegels, General Director, Danone Russia & CIS, tells us about one of his strongest traits - energy. In his opinion, every leader should have enthusiasm, energy and dynamism, and should be able to transfer it to his people and his organization.

René Schlegel, Representative of Bosch Group in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

René Schlegel — 2009-01-15T11:43:50+03:00

René Schlegel has been working for the Bosch Group since 1986. After serving in different positions within the company, he took charge of the Bosch subsidiaries in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Steven Fisher (Citi): "Commitment Is a Force That Brings People Together, That Moves a Business Forward, That Takes You from a Goal or an Idea to an Achievement or to a Contribution"

Steven Fisher — 2009-01-14T11:56:00+03:00

Steven Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head, Citi Russia & C.I.S., is telling us about his strongest leadership trait and what in his opinion is one of the most important parts of leadership - the ability to be committed. According to Steven commitment is central for doing business and is central to succeeding in today's world.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2009-01-02T15:28:00+03:00

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Anastasia Sotsevich — 2009-01-02T13:43:00+03:00

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Anastasia Sotsevich — 2009-01-02T13:11:00+03:00

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Anastasia Sotsevich — 2009-01-02T10:42:00+03:00

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Leadership Lessons for 2009

Yury Barzov — 2009-01-01T09:38:00+03:00

When the idea of learning to lead as the best way to navigate the whitewater of change first came to us, we didn't know what an enormous change is approaching. More than 75 leaders contribited to your success in our club since then.

Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "If You Want to Make Sure You Achieve Your Mission – Take Care of Your People"

Gene Klann — 2008-12-25T10:30:00+03:00

Gene Klann, Senior Program Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership, believes that the most important value that effective leader should share in life is to know how to care about his people and be patient and, also, to be able to let his people be creative, so that they could take advantage of every good opportunity that may appear.

Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "During the Time of Crisis – That’s when Leaders Actually Need to Stand Up and Provide Leadership"

Gene Klann — 2008-12-22T11:14:00+03:00

Gene Klann, Senior Program Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership, believes that courage is one of the most important leadership characteristics, that a good leader should do what he thinks is right regardless of popular opinion and that all good leaders have to be organized and be the hard workers if they want to be successful in life.

Gene Klann (Center for Creative Leadership): "If You Realize that You May Have a Difficult Time Leading in a Crisis Situation than Maybe You Should Not Have Yourself in a Leadership or Management Position because People Are Going to Count on You"

Gene Klann — 2008-12-17T11:00:00+03:00

Gene Klann, Senior Program Associate at the Center for Creative Leadership, shares with us his knowledge of how to behave in a crisis situation: he believes that a good leader should be an effective communicator, that he should not forget to share even negative information, and that crisis is the time when leaders really need to be visible.

Gene Klann, Senior Faculty Member, Center for Creative Leadership

Gene Klann — 2008-12-11T10:12:51+03:00

Gene Klann brings a rich and varied background to the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC. As a senior member of the Center's training faculty, he trains the Center's flagship offering, the Leadership Development Program (LDP®), the Looking Glass Experience, Coaching for Development, and Foundations of Leadership.

Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): "If I Can Look in the Eyes of my Ten-year-old Son When I Have Finished My Day at Work and Be Proud of What I’ve Done, than That’s Ok by Me"

Stuart Lawson — 2008-12-03T10:39:00+03:00

Stuart Lawson, CEO of HSBC Russia, believes that it is important to be able to pass on your set of standards to the future generation and that you have to understand in life where you should draw that line for yourself that you shouldn't cross.

Gurus Proclaim the Next Era of Leadership. Do We Need the New Breed of Hero?

Yury Barzov — 2008-12-02T15:45:00+03:00

"These things were way too complicated!" J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon exclaimed at a Harvard Business School summit in mid-October. "Investment bankers' balance sheets, - Bill Gates commented at the same event, - should be footnoted, "None of us are smart enough to understand this."

Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): “Many Learnings in Life Don’t Come From the Easy Days, They Come From the Difficult Days”

Stuart Lawson — 2008-12-01T11:03:00+03:00

Stuart Lawson, CEO of HSBC Russia, believes that as you go through some difficult times you should know how to manage and that these times can bring more life experience and allow you to function even more successfully when things get better.

Steven Fisher, Managing Director, Corporate Bank Head, Citi - Russia & CIS

Steven Fisher — 2008-11-28T12:52:00+03:00

Steven Fisher joined Citi in 1983 and has completed a series of corporate banking assignments in both the OECD and the emerging markets of Asia and Eastern Europe. He has been based in Moscow from 2002, where he currently is Citi's Corporate Bank Head for Russia and the C.I.S.

Stuart Lawson (HSBC Russia): "We All Are Always Learning and the Moment You Stop Learning It’s Time to Quit"

Stuart Lawson — 2008-11-28T10:04:00+03:00

Stuart Lawson, CEO of HSBC Russia, believes that the ability to learn is his strongest competency and that it is important to know how to absorb "learnings" from all the environments that you are in.

Johan Rosenberg (Oriflame): "Life Is Too Short to Spend Time on Things That You Don't Really Like"

Johan Rosenberg — 2008-11-27T11:12:00+03:00

Johan Rosenberg, Regional Director CIS & Baltics for Oriflame, is telling us about values he thinks are the most important ones in personal life as well as in professional, and why every leader should have a set of values and live by them.

Birger Steen (Microsoft) Examines a Case on Values and Comments on the Future of the Russian Software Industry

Birger Steen — 2008-11-26T10:16:00+03:00

Birger Steen, CEO of Microsoft in Russia, is telling us about the lawsuit against a school headmaster from Perm' and tells the participants of our Club of the real state of affairs around this issue and Microsoft's attitude towards it. We also talk about the potential of Russian IT home market.

Johan Rosenberg (Oriflame): "By Regulating Too Much You Lose That Entrepreneurship and You Lose the Spirit, You Lose the Winning Heart and Attitude With People"

Johan Rosenberg — 2008-11-25T11:04:00+03:00

Johan Rosenberg, Regional Director CIS & Baltics for Oriflame, is telling us about his strongest competency - the ability to listen to people. He thinks that it is very important to let people express themselves, express their thoughts and to try to understand their reasoning.

Stuart Lawson, CEO of HSBC Russia

Stuart Lawson — 2008-11-24T11:45:07+03:00

Stuart Lawson has served as the CEO of HSBC Russia since March 2008. Simultaneous with Mr. Lawson's appointment, HSBC increased its equity in its Russian operations by $200 million to support HSBC growth and presence across all of its business sectors.

How We Conduct Our Interviews

Yury Barzov — 2008-11-23T17:30:04+03:00

We use video recorded structured competency based interviews to produce one of the most powerful and democratic tools for leadership development.

Innovative Communications for Leaders to Inform, Encourage and Build Trust

Yury Barzov — 2008-11-23T16:42:07+03:00

We offer an economical platform that will allow your company to broadely use video in corporate communications without extra production and traffic costs.

Filip Kegels (Danone) Recommends: "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't"

Liza Barzova — 2008-11-17T12:24:28+03:00

Filip Kegels, General Director, Danone Russia & CIS, recommends the book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins: "In "Good to great" it's all about discipline [...] well managed empowered discipline is probably the thing which will give the most learning you can imagine".

Patricia M. Cloherty (DeltaPrivateEquityPartners): 'A Great Value in Life is Knowing How to Say 'no' Respectfully'

Patricia Cloherty — 2008-11-17T10:10:00+03:00

Patricia M. Cloherty, Chairman and CEO of DeltaPrivateEquityPartners, says that her strongest leadership competency is a combination of knowledgeable straightforwardness, enthusiasm and good sense of humor mixed in.

Filip Kegels, General Manager Fresh Dairy Products Eastern Europe, Danone

Filip Kegels — 2008-11-14T18:01:00+03:00

Filip Kegels was born in Belgium on the 22nd of April 1964. Professional career of Filip has been developing with "Danone" since 1987 and until the present time - 22 years already.

Why Living the Right Values Is Important for Life and for Business?

Anastasia Sotsevich — 2008-11-14T13:26:00+03:00

We always ask leaders in the club to speak about their values because we believe values are important. In this article we collected opinions of the leaders in the club about the importance of values in their work and personal life.

Patricia M. Cloherty (DeltaPrivateEquityPartners): 'The Best Management Team Can do Extremely Well with a Second-Rate Idea'

Patricia Cloherty — 2008-11-13T11:15:00+03:00

Patricia M. Cloherty, Chairman and CEO of DeltaPrivateEquityPartners, tells us about the peculiarities of developing a partnership based organization, about her opinion on mistakes, and about her way of dealing with her team.

Patricia M. Cloherty, Chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners

Patricia Cloherty — 2008-11-12T15:31:21+03:00

Patricia M. Cloherty is the Chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC, manager of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund and Delta Russia Fund, L.P., two venture capital funds with over $500 million invested in 55 Russian companies.

Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "Values Are above Everything"

Philippe Delpal — 2008-11-11T09:40:00+03:00

Philippe Delpal, President of BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CEO of CETELEM Russia, is telling us about values which he believes in. We are talking about three of them which are in his opinion the most important ones: responsibility, ethics and transparency.

About Core Partners

Yury Barzov — 2008-11-07T13:00:00+03:00

Our club's Core Partners share and practice the approach to leadership that makes them most obvious employers of choice for growing leaders - people with integrity, capacity and drive.

Corporate Membership

Yury Barzov — 2008-11-07T12:31:00+03:00

The companies which seek advantage in the War for Talent have to rely on more and more creative and innovative approaches. The dilemma of either developing from inside or attracting from outside leadership talent is no longer valid. The leading organizations have to do both and to do it extremely well. Our tool is designed specifically to address this challenge.

Blake P. Sallé (Cisco) Recommends: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Blake Sallé — 2008-11-06T15:06:00+03:00

Blake P. Sallé, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Emerging Technologies at Cisco Systems recommends the book that he believes is the best book about leadership that he has ever read: Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.

Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "It's an Illusion to Believe that You Can Be an Example in Everything"

Philippe Delpal — 2008-11-06T13:25:00+03:00

Philippe Delpal, President of BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CEO of CETELEM Russia, points out that one of the key elements of his leadership style is bringing emotion into a team and bringing the team together.

Blake Sallé (Cisco Systems): "It Is Very Important To Make Sure That You Establish Your Values And You Lead Your Team to Adhere to Them"

Blake Sallé — 2008-11-05T09:26:00+03:00

Blake P. Sallé, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Emerging Technologies at Cisco Systems, believes that values within the company are crucial and thinks that it is important to always hold on to your believes and values especially when your company faces some tough times.

Birger Steen (Microsoft): 'If you are a B-person you can hire an A-person and you are able to learn to be an A-person yourself'

Birger Steen — 2008-10-31T10:03:00+03:00

Birger Steen, CEO of Microsoft in Russia, tells us about his strongest competency - the ability to learn from people who report to him.

Johan Rosenberg, Regional Director CIS & Baltics, Oriflame

Johan Rosenberg — 2008-10-31T09:47:03+03:00

Johan Rosenberg was born on February 3^rd in 1970 in Tanzania. From March 2005 he is a Regional Director for CIS and Baltic countries in Oriflame. He is responsible for sales and P&L in this region.

Chris Huggett (3COM): Seeks Balance in Business Deals and Life Alike

Chris Huggett — 2008-10-29T11:55:00+03:00

Chris Huggett, Regional Sales Director of 3Com, tell us about one of his most important values - the need to achieve balance in everything he does.

Philippe Delpal (BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CETELEM Russia): "Conversation Is the Game that You Can Play with Two, Three or Four People"

Philippe Delpal — 2008-10-28T11:14:00+03:00

Philippe Delpal, President of BNP Paribas Vostok Bank, CEO of CETELEM Russia, is telling us about his qualities he thinks every leader should have: the willingness to communicate with people and the most important - the capacity to listen to them.

Blake P. Sallé, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Emerging Technologies Group, Cisco

Blake Sallé — 2008-10-28T09:41:44+03:00

Blake Sallé is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group. Under his leadership, this group is responsible for cultivating sales through a unique go to market strategy that will generate $1 billion worth of revenue in 5 to 7 years through a steady stream of new businesses and adjacent markets.

Michael Crow, Vice-president and General Manager of GlaxoSmithKline Russia

Michael Crow — 2008-10-27T12:35:00+03:00

Michael J. Crow was born in 1962 in United Kingdom. In 1983 he received Bachelor's degree in Leeds University. He joined the company in 1989 as Sales Manager for Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon and later took the same role for Egypt, Sudan and Anglophone West Africa...

Blake Sallé (Cisco Systems): "Our Job Is to Create an Environment in Which People Can Be Successful"

Blake Sallé — 2008-10-27T09:13:00+03:00

Blake P. Sallé, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Emerging Technologies at Cisco Systems, believes that his strongest leadership traits are passion and energy, and thinks that every good leader should be able to create the environment where his team gets this passion.

Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "Whenever We Are Going Through Change Leadership Is about Giving People a Straight Story"

Dennis Hopple — 2008-10-24T11:53:00+04:00

Dennis Hopple, President of CBSD/Thunderbird Russia, explains how the ability to create sence of urgency and to build a culture of mutual respect helps a leader to navigate the whitewater of change.

Birger Steen (Microsoft): "Judgement Over a Person Is the Only Thing that Never Dies"

Birger Steen — 2008-10-23T14:30:00+04:00

Birger Steen, CEO of Microsoft in Russia, points out two major roles of values in everybody's life. We speak about critical situations where values are being checked and the role of a leader in setting these values for the company and his people.

Chris Huggett (3COM): "People Need to Feel Happy about what They're Doing"

Chris Huggett — 2008-10-22T11:46:00+04:00

Chris Huggett, Regional Sales Director - EMEA East 3Com Europe Ltd, discusses his strongest leadership competency - dealing with people like with adults in communicating the strategy of the company.

Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "I Continue to Think about Long Term Because All Business Is Cyclical, What Goes Up Will Eventually Come Down"

Dennis Hopple — 2008-10-21T12:02:00+04:00

Dennis Hopple, President of CBSD/Thunderbird Russia, is telling us about his values and why living the values is so important for success in business.

Philippe Delpal, President of "BNP Paribas Vostok" Bank, CEO of CETELEM (Russia)

Philippe Delpal — 2008-10-17T15:19:00+04:00

Philippe Delpal is Global Head of International Retail Services (IRS) of BNP Paribas Group in Russia since November 2007. In Russia IRS counts more than 1.200 employees working in 17 regions and consists of 3 business lines: Branch Banking ("BNP Paribas Vostok"), Consumer Finance (CETELEM), Equipment Solutions (ARVAL).

Dennis Hopple (CBSD/Thunderbird): "Communication to Me Is a Two-way Street"

Dennis Hopple — 2008-10-17T11:08:00+04:00

Dennis Hopple, President of CBSD/Thunderbird Russia, tells us about his strongest competency - the ability to make his communication with people a two way street.

How I Joined Alfa Via Newspaper Ad

Andrey Kosogov — 2008-10-16T03:54:00+04:00

I came to Alfa in 1992 via the newspaper ad. There were no headhunters at that time in Russia so a vacancy was announced in the Moscow News. I was going to Kiev by train...

Dennis L. Hopple, President, CBSD/Thunderbird Russia

Dennis Hopple — 2008-10-15T16:30:00+04:00

Dennis L. Hopple is the founder and President of CBSD/Thunderbird Russia - the first world class management development institution in Russia.

Robert Agee (Cisco): 'If I Lose Trust in Person I Won't Be Able to Work with Him any Longer'

Robert Agee — 2008-10-15T13:09:00+04:00

Robert Agee, Vice-president of Cisco for Russia, explains why people with ambition enjoy being empowered and stretched and speaks on his values and principles in life and work.

Robert Agee, Vice-president, Cisco Systems for Russia

Robert Agee — 2008-10-15T10:03:42+04:00

Robert Agee is the Vice President for Russia of Cisco. In this role he leads a team of more than 300 employees and is responsible for all business operations in the region.

Robert Agee (Cisco): 'Passion and Inspiration Are the Things that any Leader Has to Embody'

Robert Agee — 2008-10-13T12:56:00+04:00

Robert Agee, Vice-president of Cisco Systems for Russia, tell us about one of his strongest competencies - the ability of setting clearly defined goals and objectives. That is the core factor, along with attitude of a person to everything he does, that he himself searches for in people.

Birger Steen: Setting The Right Objective

Birger Steen — 2008-09-30T20:15:00+04:00

Birger Steen, CEO of Microsoft Russia, belives that "the task of a leader is to understand where he wants to go with his or her team, and then it's to be able to move there with the team". Russian subtitles.

Successful Demotion

Maxim Donde — 2008-09-15T23:50:00+04:00

The time passed, but the person we hired did not show the expected results. The problem had to be solved, so I spoke openly to him: “You have to move to lower position with all due consequences or...

The Road to Movie Business

Vadim Goryainov — 2008-09-14T19:08:00+04:00

Up to the time I left the publishing house Prof-Media I had worked at that company for 8 years, made several successful deals and possessed all the necessary attributes for starting my own business: experience, market knowledge, reputation, money...

Firing Softly

Sergey Petrov — 2008-09-13T23:21:00+04:00

Once I started to spot that one of our senior executives was not performing as expected. I couldn't say he was working less, no, he kept tried hard. The problem was that he could not keep up with our company’s hectic work pace. He just couldn't ‘cut the mustard’. He learned new skills too slowly, and, since he was not a young man, it was hard for him to relearn quickly.

Sergey Aslibekian, Managing Partner, Grant Thornton

Liza Barzova — 2008-09-13T16:23:55+04:00

Sergey Aslibekian has been the Managing Partner at Grant Thornton since its foundation in 1994. He has been fortunate to gain experience from both working in business as well as having advised them.

Sergey Aslibekian: "To Convince You Need More than Talking"

Liza Barzova — 2008-09-13T16:12:44+04:00

Sergey Aslibekian, the Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, believes that his strongest competency is the ability to convince people to do something and to share his aspirations. In our conversation he tells us how he does it and how he manages to create a comfortable atmosphere for people in his company.

Andrey Kononchuk: "Respect for People Is Our Position"

Katia Barzova — 2008-09-13T16:11:29+04:00

Andrey Kononchuk, Co founder and CEO of popular and rapidly growing chain of fast food outlets Kroshka Kartoshka, believes that respect for people, cultivated in his company, helps to create favorable atmosphere within the team.

Building a Team

Vladimir Skvortsov — 2008-09-12T17:31:00+04:00

When I started working at AlphaStakhovaniye insurance company in april 2002 it was going through a very important and difficult period. Just before I joined in 2001 the company was formed through a merger of its two predecessors...

Georgy Gens, President of Lanit Group of Companies

Katia Barzova — 2008-09-03T15:21:19+04:00

George Gens, President of Lanit Group of Companies, is one of those top executives who determine the trends of the contemporary Russian IT market evolution.

Sergey Krivonogov, the Head of DDB Russia Group of Companies

Katia Barzova — 2008-09-03T13:33:28+04:00

Sergey Krivonogov, founder of Navigator DDB advertising agency, managing director and co-owner of DDB Russia Group of Companies

Sergey Krivonogov: "Hire Only Good People – It Makes Things Easier!"

Katia Barzova — 2008-09-03T11:26:55+04:00

Sergey Krivonogov, the Head of DDB Russia group of companies outlines his strongest competency: to choose right people for right positions, and tells us which qualities he appreciates most in his employees.

Anatoly Karachinsky: "Money Is a Necessary but Insufficient Condition for Success in Business"

Liza Barzova — 2008-09-01T16:45:39+04:00

Anatoly Karachinsky, President of IBS Group Holding, believes that the big business imposes the big responsibility on the person who runs it - obligations in front of investors, towards people who work for you. And you can't ignore these obligations.

George Chumburidze: "The Most Important Skill Is to Understand What Weight the Person Can Bear"

Liza Barzova — 2008-09-01T12:02:45+04:00

George Chumburidze, the general director of the representative office of Azimut Yachts in Russia thinks his strong point is his ability to explain people what he wants. He tells us how he does it and what is the most important in this competence. He also explains that leadership is always about responsibility.

Georgy Gens: "I Discuss Absolutely Everything with My Executives Even if Something Is Obvious Enough for Me"

Katia Barzova — 2008-08-29T17:20:22+04:00

Georgy Gens, President of Lanit Group of Companies, tells us how he makes decisions, why sometimes it is better not to hurry even though he doesn't like to hesitate; how his friend prevented him from being too credulous, and why the expert estimation and criticism are important within the company.

Mikhail Khabarov: "We Can’t Stop, Not a Single Member of My Team Can Afford It"

Katia Barzova — 2008-08-28T13:08:56+04:00

Mikhail Khabarov, CEO of Alfa-Capital asset management company, tells us how while creating a team in a company that was "bleeding", he instilled corporate culture that combines entrepreneurial initiative and team spirit.

Sergey Petrov: "Mission Grasps People"

Sergey Petrov — 2008-08-20T18:36:48+04:00

The founder of the largest Russian car dealer "Rolf" Sergey Petrov is sure the mission is necessary as a consolidating idea to make business successful. It is impossible to impose the mission; it should evolve. Today "Rolf" lives by principles and values, formulated by its managers in the beginning of 2000.

Ilias Aliev, HR Director, Rosgosstrakh

Liza Barzova — 2008-08-19T14:46:42+04:00

Ilias Aliev was born in 1968 in Moscow. He graduated from Philological faculty of the Moscow state university of M.V.Lomonosov in 1992, the candidate of sciences.

Marina Novikova, ex. Vice President, Organizational Development and Human Resources, VimpelCom

Marina Novikova — 2008-08-19T12:17:00+04:00

Marina Novikova served as Vice President, Organizational Development and Human Resources in VimpelCom in 2001 - 2008.

Anatoly Karachinsky, President, IBS Group

Liza Barzova — 2008-08-15T16:30:52+04:00

Anatoly Karachinsky, the developer of strategies and investment policy of IBS Group of Companies. An expert and analyst in large-scale state and international IT projects.

Leonid Novoselsky, CEO of the Gradient Group.

Liza Barzova — 2008-08-15T15:51:00+04:00

In 1991 together with his friends, Leonid Novoselsky founded the company "Gradient" which started with one stall in the centre of Moscow. Today "Gradient" is one of the leading FMCG distribution companies in Russia with turnover of about $500 million, 4500 employees and branches in the majority of the largest cities of Russia.

Mikhail Khabarov, CEO, Alfa Capital

Liza Barzova — 2008-08-15T12:57:04+04:00

Before applying to the Alfa Capital CEO position Mikhail Khabarov headed Allianz ROSNO Asset Management company. Before that he worked at the position of CFO and CEO First Deputy of “ROSNO” Insurance Company.

Ruben Vardanian, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Troika Dialog Group

Liza Barzova — 2008-08-15T12:43:11+04:00

Ruben Vardanian is Troika Dialog Group’s Board Chairman and CEO. An employee at Troika Dialog since the company’s founding, Mr. Vardanian became head of the company in 1992. Since that time, Mr. Vardanian has solidified his role as a key figure in Russia’s capital markets.

Sergey Petrov, the Founder of "Rolf" Group of Companies

Sergey Petrov — 2008-08-15T12:16:44+04:00

Sergey Petrov - the Deputy of the State Duma, the member of the Budget and Taxes Committee, the founder of "Rolf" Group of companies.

Information about the Partner: VTB24

Katia Barzova — 2008-08-15T11:03:49+04:00

VTB24 is one of the major players on the Russian banking services market. We are part of the international VTB Bank Group and focus on servicing of individuals, private businessmen and small businesses.

VimpelCom: Corporate Partner №1 of Good2Work Club of Leaders

Katia Barzova — 2008-08-15T10:28:43+04:00

The VimpelCom Group is a telecommunications operator, providing voice and data servicing, covered through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies.The wireless subsidiaries of VimpelCom Group operate under the "Beeline" brand.

Nadezhda Filippova, Senior Vice-President, Head of HR and Corporate Development Division of VTB24

Katia Barzova — 2008-08-05T12:38:00+04:00

Today, Nadezhda Filippova is a Senior Vice-President, Head of HR and Corporate Development Division in VTB24 bank.

Birger Steen, General Manager, Microsoft Russia

Birger Steen — 2008-07-21T18:03:00+04:00

Birger Steen has been the General Director of the Microsoft Rus LLC since August of 2004 and heads the Board of Directors of Microsoft’s Russian office. In this position Mr. Steen is subordinate to Vahe Torossian, Vice-President of Microsoft in the Central and East European region.

Sergei Petrov: Overturned Values

Maria Pikalova — 2008-07-21T01:58:00+04:00

One of our subdivisions once had several automobile transporters with the new cars on the route Viborg - St. Petersburg. Suddenly one of the trailers capsized right on the road. It seemed to be nothing more than an annoying accident...

Vladimir Skvortsov: How I provoked a crisis to avoid a deeper one in the future

Maria Pikalova — 2008-07-21T01:18:00+04:00

One of our company’s local branches was falling behind target for a long time. It did not fulfill the plan. We were not satisfied with results but wanted to avoid tough measures...

Leonid Novoselsky: The Ability to Trust People

Anton Murad — 2008-05-16T12:14:00+04:00

Leonid Novoselsky, CEO of the Gradient Group tells about his strongest area – the ability to trust people – and gives examples of how he uses this competency in business. Over 80 video conversations with leaders in Russian are available here.

Ilias Aliev: The Question Should Destroy The Brain

Anton Murad — 2008-05-05T21:40:48+04:00

Ilias Aliev, Rosgosstrakh HR-Director, told us how he used Zen traditions in his management practice. Watch the video to know how the art of asking questions can help in solving difficult business situations.

Vladimir Skvortsov: The Speed of Taking Decisions

Vladimir Skvortsov — 2008-04-30T17:30:02+04:00

Vladimir Skvortsov, Alfastrakhovanie CEO, told us how he thinks a leader should take decisions. According to him the speed of taking decisions is the key factor.

Artem Bektemirov: To Communicate Vision You Need to Have Passion

Anton Murad — 2008-04-21T18:14:00+04:00

Some people reason by virtual pictures. Due to creative thinking they can easily imagine their future projects and analyze their development prospect. Artem Bektemirov, Drugstore Chain 36.6 CEO, is one of such people. Watch the video to know about his key competency.

Leaders, Fools and Impostors: Essays on the Psychology of Leadership

Anton Murad — 2008-04-21T02:46:00+04:00

In this book of insightful essays, Kets de Vries explodes the myth that rationality is what governs the behavior of leaders and followers, and he provides a more realistic perspective on organizational functioning and the leader-follower relationship. The author shows that a great potential for distortion exists when leaders try to act out the fantasies of their followers..

Leading By Design: The Ikea Story

Anton Murad — 2008-04-20T16:13:00+04:00

Leading by Design is really, of course, the story of Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish furniture retailer who turned Ikea into a company that now has 41,000 workers at 150 stores in 30 countries who annually distribute 100 million catalogs and sell $6.25 billion in goods...

How Dell Made More Money than His School Teacher and Learned to Segment the Market

Anton Murad — 2008-04-20T00:10:00+04:00

When I was sixteen, I got a summer job selling newspaper subscriptions to The Houston Post. At the time, the newspaper gave its salespeople a list of new phone numbers issued by the telephone company and told us to cold call them. It struck me as a pretty random way of approaching new business...

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Anton Murad — 2008-04-19T13:28:00+04:00

New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave...

How Lou Gerstner Got IBM To Dance

Anton Murad — 2008-04-19T06:50:00+04:00

The author says that IBM's problems, challenges, complexity and culture are unique, and the fixes he applied are unlikely to be easily transferred. The answers to the question of how Gerstner saved IBM, the major business decisions, are known. What's less understood is how he managed to change a culture that he generously describes as "inbred and ingrown"..

Brad Bird: Rats should crawl or how to deal with creative employees

Anton Murad — 2008-04-18T19:21:14+04:00

One of the guys challenged me. He said, “I want to know why you’re doing this.” Now, I had gone into this film reluctantly. It’s not what I was looking to do after The Incredibles. And there was a part of me that wanted to say, “Because I’m the director, that’s why. Do you want to take this problematic thing over?”. But I stopped..

How Fred Deluca Found Success By Way of the Submarine Sandwich

Anton Murad — 2008-04-16T18:35:00+04:00

DeLuca took advantage of the lack of quick-service chains to cater to customers anywhere, anytime. Known for its freshly baked sandwiches, Subway has been baking its own bread at its very store everyday since 1983. DeLuca even designed Subway's bread machine to ensure the quality of its bread as a healthy alternative to traditional fast food.

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

Anton Murad — 2008-04-16T07:09:00+04:00

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely.

Second Acts: Career Paths For Worn-Out Executives

Max Golovanov — 2008-04-15T10:37:00+04:00

As considers Wall Street Journal, golfing and gardening aren't as enticing as they once were. While baby boomers are increasingly becoming eligible for Social Security benefits, so far it seems that few are actually putting their working lives to bed. According to an AARP survey, 79% of baby boomers plan to work in some capacity into their retirement years.

Jack: Straight from the Gut

Anton Murad — 2008-04-14T16:23:00+04:00

That's the basic philosophy of how Jack ran the vast and extraordinarily profitable General Electric company for more than two decades. During his tenure, GE was recognized annually as the best company in the world by Fortune magazine. Welch reveals how his unusual management techniques propelled GE to become one of the most successful corporations of all time...

Who is John Galt?

Anton Murad — 2008-04-14T09:57:00+04:00

"Who is John Galt?" This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed economic times. Set in the future, the novel follows capitalist magnates as they battle looters, strikers, and the impending ruin of the United States' economy...

How Ingvar Kamprad Laid The Basis of The IKEA concept

Anton Murad — 2008-04-12T10:54:00+04:00

Out of long talks through the night with Sven Göte about how we were to get out of this vicious circle – lower price, worse quality – the idea grew of trying a permanent display or exhibition of our furniture. People could go to the display, see the furniture for themselves, and compare the quality at different price levels...

Tom Peters: Rе-imagine!

Anton Murad — 2008-04-10T15:35:00+04:00

More than just a how-to book for the 21st Century, Re-imagine! is a call to arms - a passionate wake-up call for the business world, educators, and society as a whole. Focusing on how the business climate has changed, this inspirational book outlines how the new world of business works, explores radical ways of overcoming outdated...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Anton Murad — 2008-04-09T08:45:00+04:00

How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

More CEOs Are Saying No to Bonuses

Max Golovanov — 2008-04-07T17:51:44+04:00

According to The Wall Street Journal, some corporate leaders believe 'tis better to give back than receive during tough times. More chief executives are spurning bonuses earned for fiscal 2007. Their voluntary cutbacks, most common among financial companies affected by the mortgage meltdown, don't always assuage demoralized staffers and unhappy investors.

The "Ten Hot Dogs" Strategy of Ingvar Kamprad

Anton Murad — 2008-04-07T17:15:00+04:00

In 1995 the IKEA furniture store started selling hot dogs at five kronor each, as opposed to the usual price of ten to fifteen kronor. This investment was at once successful, and today it contributes to the growing restaurant and food sector by turning over 1.6 billion kronor in 1997, and alone answering for exports from Sweden amounting to 700 million kronor ($87 million).

Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Anton Murad — 2008-04-07T10:30:00+04:00

In this autobiography, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says one of his prime business criteria is "fun." Fun made Branson a billionaire, and few business memoirs are one-billionth as fun as Branson's, nor as niftily written. Not only does it relate his side of near-death corporate experiences, it tells how the chairman literally cheated death by gun, shipwreck, and balloon crash..

How Steven Spielberg Got His First Job

Anton Murad — 2008-04-07T09:44:00+04:00

I began by making 8 and 16mm films, some for $15 apiece and some for $200. You can't excuse yourself by saying, "Well, I can't raise the money to make the short film to get into the front door and show my work." It's not expensive to make little movies, even if they're in Super-8 and done with a Kodak Ektasound camera you've borrowed from a friend...

To get rich your child should read

Anton Murad — 2008-04-05T19:25:00+04:00

"Let's suppose your goal is to raise a child who will grow up and make The Forbes 400 list someday. How do you feed her brain and nourish her spirit? What secrets of wealth-building do you pour into his pulsing veins?" Rich Karlgaard, Forbes reporter, composed a list of 53 books whish would help your children achieve outsize success.

How Michael Dell Decided to Start His Own Business

Anton Murad — 2008-04-04T23:11:00+04:00

Traditionally, in the computer industry, a manufacturing company built computers, which were then distributed to resellers and dealers who sold them to businesses and individual consumers. In the early days, companies like Apple and IBM sold their products through computer dealers because they needed the leverage to gain nationwide sales...

Fortune Published Interview with Chrysler's CEO Nardelli and Top Execs

Max Golovanov — 2008-04-04T17:07:25+04:00

The Fortune published interview with Chrysler's CEO Nardelli and top execs LaSorda and Press on Cerberus and Chrysler's turnaround team. Cerberus Capital Management agreed last May to buy 80% of Chrysler from its German parent, then known as DaimlerChrysler. But by the time the deal closed in early August, global credit markets had convulsed and the U.S. economy was slowing down.

How HP chose human oriented philosophy and succeed

Anton Murad — 2008-04-03T18:08:00+04:00

It is the tradition of treating every individual with consideration and respect and recognizing personal achievements. This sounds almost trite, but Dave [co-founder Packard] and I honestly believe in this philosophy... The dignity and worth of the individual is a very important part, then, of the HP Way...

Top MBA's For Leaders By QS International Recruiter Survey

Elena Pisareva — 2008-04-03T13:29:49+04:00

QS TopMBA.com published the results of International Recruiter Survey 2007 that reflects recruiters’ preferences. The tables are compiled entirely based on the unprompted selection of each school, by responding recruiters anywhere in the world, for each area of specialisation, in particularly for leadership.

Free Video Lecture Podcasts From Top Universities

Max Golovanov — 2008-04-03T13:04:04+04:00

Free video lectures are a great way to learn more about a particular subject because you don't have to put a lot of effort into the experience. There are currently dozens of top universities that provide free video lectures to self-learners around the world. Here's a list of the best.

Find Out About Your Leadership Traits at Good2Work!

Ilya Zinenko — 2008-04-02T23:38:00+04:00

We explore innovative ways of leadership development. Our most eminent members are eager to try new tools of transferring their skills of leadership. We provide them with options to do it. For those who are interested to learn if they have traits for a leader we prepared these F.A.Q.

Stephen Covey: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Anton Murad — 2008-04-02T01:24:00+04:00

Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift" – a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" and much more...

Comanies Need To Invest Long Term To Overcome Talent Shortage Blocking Corporate Growth

Yury Barzov — 2008-03-28T12:08:38+03:00

In January 2008 McKinsey Quarterly published an article "Making talent a strategic priority". I found there a couple of rather interesting points.

Can Howard Schultz Turn Starbucks Around?

Max Golovanov — 2008-03-24T19:41:39+03:00

Since Howard Schultz took back the espresso machines at the coffee-slinging company he founded, he has preached returning focus to the customers at Starbucks. Last Thursday, he announced a change to the company's U.S. operations that is intended to do that, but at the cost of 600 jobs.

Forbes published this article in November 2007. I found some interesting points in it on Spitzer’s behavior.

Yury Barzov — 2008-03-18T13:38:08+03:00

And he (Greenberg) has told some people he may file a defamation suit or other legal action against Spitzer, "a man who has abused the rule of law." (There might be a statute of limitations problem here.) "I can't tell you how that's going to play out," Greenberg says, "but I'm not afraid of him."

Capital International Buys $175 Million Stake in Unimilk

Yury Barzov — 2008-03-17T13:24:00+03:00

March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Capital International Inc. bought a stake in OAO Unimilk, Russia's second-biggest dairy company, to benefit from surging demand for milk and baby food in the former Soviet Union, Unimilk said.

Modern Times Sells DTV to CTC Media for $395 Million

Yury Barzov — 2008-03-11T14:05:22+03:00

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Modern Times Group AB, Sweden's largest publicly traded media company, agreed to sell Russian Television network DTV Group to CTC Media Inc. for about $395 million in cash.

Investors' Favorite Female CEOs

Yury Barzov — 2008-03-07T14:56:58+03:00

Of about 1,000 public companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenue in a Forbes database, there are 30 female chief executives. On an annual basis, half the companies on this list have shown shareholders a greater total return than the Standard & Poor's 500.

Talent Supply Chain Management

Yury Barzov — 2008-02-29T14:47:49+03:00

In a recent article Peter Cappelli, Wharton Professor of Management, proposes to apply the just-in-time principles of supply chain management to current talent management issues.

Forbes Commentary on Russia Today English Language TV Channel

Yury Barzov — 2008-02-28T15:44:46+03:00

‘This 24-hour, English-language channel is broadcast on cable stations in the U.S. and via satellite to audiences around the world. It's been operating since 2005, but as Russia's widely criticized presidential elections approach (and its image abroad is deteriorating) the government-funded channel is evidently increasing efforts to charm its foreign audience.'

Patrick Aghanian: How to Set and Communicate Vision

Patrick Aghanian — 2008-02-19T16:39:00+03:00

The vision has to be inspirational. It has to be something that people say "wow". I much prefer to fail doing a very big jump than to succeed with a very small step. Because I think that type of failure teachers you a lot about yourself, about the situation and it's something that becomes a lesson in life which actually helps you later to make right decisions.

Patrick Aghanian: How to Diagnose Situation

Patrick Aghanian — 2008-02-13T16:50:59+03:00

You need to take the time to listen. That is one of the most important thing that a leader should have. Most of leaders want to talk but in reality you should listen, especially in the beginning. There has to be a balance between listening and taking action. It is very important to understand when you have to make that transition from listening to action.

What You As a Club Member Can Do On Your Personal Page?

Anton Murad — 2008-02-12T14:43:00+03:00

On your Personal Page you as a club participant can publish articles and create groups and difine their scope of visibility to other site visitors. You can communicate using Personal Forum and change your personal information and much more…

Is U.S. heading to recession? Dean advises MBA students: Prepare to engage in some missionary selling, to help employers discover your talent.

Yury Barzov — 2008-01-21T13:19:08+03:00

Stock markets in Asia plunged on fears of the U.S. heading to recession. Robert F. Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business advises MBA students: Prepare to engage in some missionary selling, to help employers discover your talent. He also comments on the systemic nature of financial crisis that helps us to predict what we should expect from the current one.

Blog: Leading from Behind and the Magic of Ubuntu

Yury Barzov — 2008-01-21T11:13:43+03:00

In the most recent newsletter of Egon Zehnder International I found an interesting concept of Harvard business school professors who claim that Western business organizations have much to learn from ‘less conventional’ concepts of leadership explored in the fierce war for talent in the emerging economies. They found a couple of concepts in Africa. I wonder if we can find some in Russia?

Father’s no More a Leader

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-28T18:54:21+03:00

Financial Times published a review of the book by Michael Maccoby called The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow. According to the review, the book is of mixed qualities. Though, there is enough curious analysis of the social changes and their impact on leadership model.

Blog: New Leader's Voodoo Kit

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-27T21:44:02+03:00

There’s something particularly magic in charisma phenomenon, which is necessary to obtain for every leader. But what if it’s hard to get but you need it eagerly?

If You're Productive, What’s Your Price?

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-20T17:31:38+03:00

I think few realize the huge spread in the value of 20 year olds. Some, it's true, are not very capable. But others are more capable than all but a handful of 30 year olds.

Leadership Lesson from a Futuristic Rock Climber

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-20T16:49:08+03:00

Here’s a story on how to succeed by changing your frame of mind. In 1978, Jim Collins, the future author of From Good to Great book, became obsessed with a rock climb called Genesis in Colorado. Once, watching another climber’s failed effort to pass it, he noticed it’s not that impossible.

Today You’re a Mediocrity, Tomorrow – a Leader?

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-19T20:07:35+03:00

Now, research at the London School of Economics may show that leaders are very rarely born. Instead, they are the ones who are willing to make the decision to lead in situations when it is most expected of them.

One of Simple Secrets of Leadership from Young Sam Walton

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-17T17:14:44+03:00

Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder, in his book Made in America. My Story shows an example of an uncommon leadership lesson.

The Four Truths of Storytelling

Yury Barzov — 2007-12-17T15:30:20+03:00

Peter Guber is a business leader and a film producer. In his view storytelling is a key component of success for both leadership and in moviemaking.

To Stick and Inspire

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-12-14T17:06:00+03:00

We all tell stories every day. Why? “Research shows that mentally rehearsing a situation helps us perform better when we encounter that situation,” Heath writes. “Stories act as a kind of mental flight simulator, preparing us to respond more quickly and effectively.”

Ruben Vardanian, Troika Dialog: “I Value My Company’s Managers’ Ambitions to Become Extra Successful”

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-26T17:42:01+03:00

If you build a partnership where all the partners can influence the decisions, you should create the mechanisms that allow them to become the owners.

Vadim Asadov: Playing Chess with Yourself

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-11-24T19:50:00+03:00

Several times I found myself in a situation when it seemed that only a miracle could save a project. And sometimes it is really better to close it down, than to regret money, time and efforts spent, hope to drag it up to success by one more “ultimate” investment. It is a very difficult choice for me each time, because I always have money...

Vladimir Skvortsov, CEO, AlfaStrakhovanie Insurance Group

Maria Pikalova — 2007-11-19T23:12:00+03:00

Vladimir Skvortsov is a recognized professional on the financial market and one of the most successful managers in Russia. In 2004, he was named the Best Manager in the Insurance Industry by Russian business magazine Kompaniya, and under his direction AlfaStrakhovanie Insurance Group was rewarded as the Company of the Year...

Andrei Kosogov, Member of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Alfa Group Consortium

Andrey Kosogov — 2007-11-18T11:52:46+03:00

Alfa Group Consortium is a Russian privately owned financial industrial conglomerate with over $ 32 billions of assets. Andrey Kosogov joined Alfa in 1992 by responding to a newspaper ad. He told us his stories. This brief profile explains why we rely on Andrey's advice and example.

How Sergey Petrov left the Soviet Army to start his own business

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-17T23:56:00+03:00

Now Sergey Petrov is the principal shareholder of the Russia's largest car distributor and retaier. He is at the list of the Russian Forbes. In 1980s he was making successful career as a Soviet Air Forces officer. Once a situation occured that made him to think about change...

Vadim Goryainov, Movie Producer, Krasnaya Strela

Vadim Goryainov — 2007-11-17T23:51:00+03:00

In Goryainov’s opinion to be a real entrepreneur means to change the reality around you. Being a manager you can only react to the outside “signals”, for example, to stockholders’ demands. But if you are a businessman...

Igor Salita, CEO, MEDSI Group

Igor Salita — 2007-11-17T20:05:00+03:00

Igor Salita belongs to successful earliest discoverers of business in Russia. One of the most remarkable competencies of Igor is his ability to create brilliant teams of talented people…

Andrey Yanovsky, CEO, Nidan Soki

Andrey Yanovsky — 2007-11-17T20:03:00+03:00

In the early 1990s when he had just started his career in Coca-Cola almost nobody believed in Russian regional markets and nobody wanted to develop business outside Moscow and Petersburg. His ideas about going to new areas seemed absolutely crazy to senior managers and stockholders. But he turned out to be insistent and convincing enough...

Artem Bektemirov, CEO and co-owner, Pharmacy Chain 36.6

Maria Pikalova — 2007-11-17T19:50:00+03:00

In his childhood Artem Bektemirov dreamed of being an actor but later chose the studying of the international economy. In his own words, he had no leadership ambitions and liked loneliness. But later, when he became a leader, he realized the importance of the development of communication skills.

Boris Volpe, SAP CIS

Boris Volpe — 2007-11-17T18:31:00+03:00

Boris Volpe, currently Executive Director of SAP CIS, is known in business circles not only for his extremely successful sales and marketing experience, but also for his well-founded and highly professional approach to business. It may be because of his scientific background.

Vadim Asadov, CEO and Founder, NeurOK

Vadim Asadov — 2007-11-17T16:25:00+03:00

Vadim prefers to work with stars only. He used to evaluate any person by his or her work’s result and does not see the problem in discussing any requirements of a star employee until this person is reasonable and correlates his desires with his commitments to the project. But if even the most talented employee begins to put himself higher than the company...

Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-11-16T01:27:00+03:00

Throughout his career Welch was always learning from all the leaders he worked with. What he hated about the organization in his early days as a chemical engineer, is exactly what he transformed as CEO: the red tape and bureaucracy of the company.

Yvon Chouinard, Founder, Patagonia Inc.

Maria Pikalova — 2007-11-15T20:40:00+03:00

Yvon Chouinard has proven that it is possible to make successful multi-million business following strict environmental principles and values. Yvon Chouinard is a world-class mountaineer and surfer, environmentalist and outdoor industry businessman, noted for his clothing and gear company, Patagonia...

Threat of Loss of Control over Company as a Result of Hiring an Outsider CEO

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-11-14T19:49:44+03:00

How Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired Erich Schmidt, not wishing to hire anybody at all.

Google: Making the World a Better Place Can Be a Good Way to Earn

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-11-14T19:07:01+03:00

In 2007 Fortune named Google the “Best Company to Work For”. Its rivals say that when they are lucky to find an excellent professional, they certainly found that he or she has been already made a job offer...

During the Last Decade Britain Emerged as a World Leader in the Knowledge Economy

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-14T17:33:24+03:00

Why is Britain doing so well? The Work Foundation’s answer (we are engaging in Europe’s largest-ever knowledge economy inquiry) is that the knowledge economy is a sophisticated supply response to high and growing levels of educated, discerning demand – and that Britain has enjoyed 15 years’ growth of just such demand.

Monster.com Study: Employers Undervalue Work/Life Balance Initiatives' Impact on Recruitment

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-12T13:30:49+03:00

Study Indicates That Only Half of HR Professionals Believe Work/Life Balance Will Improve Over Next Five Years.

Gary Hamel: We Are on the Threshold of a Post-Managerial Society

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-10T20:55:28+03:00

The outlines of the 21st-century management model are already clear. Decision-making will be more peer-based; and the tools of creativity will be widely distributed in organizations.

Newly released book Millennial Leaders Tells Success Stories from Today's Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-08T15:10:45+03:00

Newly released book shows people how to communicate and lead across generations, while offering valuable insights into the emerging force that is Gen Y.

Employees’ Loyalty to an Organization Has Loosened Last Years, Survey Revealed

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-02T17:43:06+03:00

Business leaders and their leadership style remain incredibly important to employees--even though it seems workers complain more about benefits, salary and vacation time. People just want a boss and management team who are interested in the well-being of the individual and the company, according to the 2007 Global Workforce Study by management consulting group Towers Perrin.

Leadership Development in Companies Moved from Training "Just in Case" to Focused Learning

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-02T17:23:26+03:00

Leadership development has moved from training "just in case" someone needed to know the key concepts or tools in management to focused learning and development "just in time" to apply them to achieve specific strategic objectives. Today's leadership development is much more likely to include an application opportunity and to support specific strategic initiatives.

Many of the Young, Talented Russians Who Left Their Home Country in the Late 90s Are Coming Home

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-11-01T15:34:14+03:00

Despite Moscow’s international reputation as one of the most expensive cities in the world, most professionals will find their money goes much further in the Russian capital than, for example, in London.

Facebook's Microsoft Deal May Boost Options Prices, Hurting Ability to Lure Top Talent

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-31T12:00:21+03:00

There is a little-noticed downside to Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc., according to WSJ. The deal will likely raise the price of stock options issued by the social-networking company and could make it more difficult to hire talented employees.

How Boris Volpe Had Not Agreed With His Bosses

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-31T06:00:07+03:00

In the 90s I was working as a regional manager in Siberia for a large American FMCG company. We were to launch a sales motivation program from scratch. American managers from the headquarters showed me a special matrix and told me they had introduced a successful salespersons motivation system based on it in several countries. Although I was a Dr.Sc.Math. I couldn't understand the matrix...

"Some Leaders are Born, Others Are Made," Says Karlin Sloan, Executive Coach

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-30T12:43:30+03:00

Sloan's new book, Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership is a thought-provoking handbook for anyone who wants to kick a management career up a notch to the leadership level.

500 Largest US Companies Will Lose 50% of Their Senior Management in 5 Years

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-30T12:27:56+03:00

The nation is in the middle of a talent crisis. The U.S. is estimated to face a 10 million worker shortage in 2010; and the average tenure at one employer for U.S. employees is only three years.

Tata Group’s Talent Development Keeps MBAs from Leaving India

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-29T15:47:49+03:00

Tata gains the admiration of potential leaders through the strength of their 12-month intensive management-training program, called TAS, which has been in place for more than fifty years.

Your Boss Thinks You Don’t Fit for General Manager Position

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-28T18:27:19+03:00

“Why not me? Why him? I deserve this position more than someone else!” Everyone feels so not being promoted. How to improve the situation? May be to jump into a boss’ car and pound him with your qualification for the job for an hour? Sounds crazy? Jack Welch did it and it worked.

Igor Salita: The Price of the White Label

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-27T10:05:39+04:00

There is no better motivation for a sales manager than a widely accepted product. And nothing is worse than a product which does not sell. A good sales person will not work for any salary if he can’t sell, because lack of good sales means lack of joy and drive for him...

Kip Tindell, Co-founder, CEO, The Container Store

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-26T17:10:12+04:00

Kip Tindell is that kind of a leader one can frequently watch in his own stores, selling dusting shelves and helping with customer carry-outs. He managed to create a fundamentally new retailing business, home organization product store, based on the amazing attitude to the company’s employees...

Employers Implement New Policies to Accommodate Gen Y Workers

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-26T14:55:31+04:00

"Generation Y workers grew up in a technology-driven world where standards and norms have changed and often operate under different perspectives than older co-workers," Ms. Haefner said.

Keeping a Promise When It Turns out to be Much More Difficult Than It Was Supposed to Be

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-25T17:49:20+04:00

How Jeff Bezos flew to Japan to deliver a customer’s order.

PepsiCo’s Leadership Development Approach Includes Career-Growth and Talent-Management Models

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-25T13:53:30+04:00

PepsiCo’s leadership-development strategy is grounded in the belief that strong leaders are needed to be successful in the marketplace.

How Gerstner Supported an Employee Who Was Regarded as a Misfit, and It Payed Off

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-25T13:43:21+04:00

Jerry Welsh had been a professor of Slavic languages, particularly Russian, and his avocation was ultra-marathon running. He was known around American Express as "Wild Man Jerry," and his expertise was in his gut understanding of the consumer spending psyche...

How Pierre Omidyar Found The Most Effective Way to Solve Disputes Between eBay Users

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-25T13:04:31+04:00

Initially, users of Pierre Omidyar's Auction Web (later he named it eBay) e-mailed him whenever they had complaints, wanted to ask questions, or otherwise wanted to comment about the site...

How Dee Hock Acted When the Owner Did not Keep his Word and Refused to Share Profit

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-25T12:10:45+04:00

Loss of the job was a crushing experience. Perol and I were friendless in a massive city we hated, breathing air so polluted it seared the eye and blotted out everything beyond a few blocks...

How Nordstrom Saved Family Business Giving “Nice People” the Freedom to Dump the Rules

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-25T11:07:00+04:00

As the 21st century dawned, American retailer Nordstrom was in trouble. Its sales had slowed down and its stock prices had declined. Nordstrom's board of directors even considered merging with another retailer or selling the company...

A Generation Y Leader Inspires by Enabling Others to Be Leaders

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-24T19:31:41+04:00

A Gen-Y leader delegates to help the worker achieve their goals. They are motivated by relationships and have an obsession with seeing others succeed.

Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman, eBay

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-24T12:24:56+04:00

Omidyar changed the face of online commerce in 1995 when he launched Auction Web to experiment how equal access to information and opportunities would affect the efficiency of a marketplace...

Vadim Asadov: Parting with a star

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-23T22:30:30+04:00

Some time ago I had to fire a highly qualified programmer from one of my projects. He was not an ordinary person at all, and it was not easy to communicate with him, but I could put up with all these difficulties...

How Steve Jobs Hired the Key Man for the iPod Project

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-23T21:36:09+04:00

Winter of 2001. The hardware guy, Tony Fadell had worked on developing a number of devices at General Magic (a company started by some of the original Mac team members) and later at Philips. After Philips, he set out on his own and tried to shop around the idea...

Employee Doesn’t Fit for the Job

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-22T14:38:22+04:00

How Welch fired people not fit for their jobs.

Jack Welch Shared His Message of Leadership, Globalization and Values on AFP Conference

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-22T13:07:56+04:00

Welch said that good leaders must have three key characteristics: authenticity, resilience and "the ability to see around corners."

The Right Person for a Top Position Is Not Interested in the Job

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-21T13:56:09+04:00

A brilliant candidate does not want to join your going broken company for some reason? Oh, sometimes they are so unbearably capricious. Don’t worry! Lou Gerstner agreed to become the first non-IBMer to claim the executive suite, at the time when most of the candidates felt that resuscitating IBM was next to impossible.

How Lou Gerstner Made His First Steps as the IBM Boss

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-20T12:40:18+04:00

In less than thirty days, the incoming CEO of IBM, Lou Gerstner, should have to introduce himself to tens of thousands of skeptical IBMers worldwide, many worrying whether they would have a job by year's end; face angry, perplexed, and demanding shareholders at the annual meeting...

How Sammons Saved Rite Aid through Giving Its Employees the Feeling that They Are Valued

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-20T12:00:19+04:00

When Mary Sammons joined Rite Aid in December 1999, the company appeared to have no future. In the fall of 1999, the company was condemned for its aggressive marketing of pharmaceutical products and other consumer-unfriendly practices...

Wilbert L. (Bill) Gore, Founder, W.L. Gore & Associates

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-19T20:19:12+04:00

Colleagues described Bill as quiet, humble and completely approachable. His wealth was considerable but inconspicuous. And in his own company he tried to create the ideal environment for a guy like himself - a somewhat crazy buttoned-down engineer...

Open Communication is a Must-Do for Every Business-Leader, Boris Scherbakov Says

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-19T19:50:06+04:00

Many of top-executives underestimate or don’t like public events, explaining they are often unimportant and too far from serious business issues. Anyway, insists Mr Scherbakov, it’s very useful to take part in such events.

Companies Worldwide Face Leadership Crisis - IBM Study

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-19T19:41:44+04:00

The study suggests companies are putting growth strategies at risk if they cannot identify and develop the next generation of leaders.

How Dee Hock Plunged into the Ocean to Pursue the Offended Important Partner

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-19T10:16:44+04:00

The staff had bad news. Bernard Sue, head of Carte Bleue, had been roughly handled by some of the proponents of the name change. He had angrily announced he was returning to France on the next flight, would no longer participate in the meeting...

How Sergey Brin and Larry Page Hired Erich Schmidt, Not Wishing To Hire Anybody At All

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-19T10:14:33+04:00

Two venture firms Kleiner Perkins of John Doerr and Sequoia Capital of Michael Moritz that had invested $25 million in Google in 1999 had gotten nothing in return, as they saw it, except frustration and headaches from the Google Guys...

How Rudolph Giuliani Learned to Start with Small Things and Achieve the Larger Result

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-19T10:03:53+04:00

…When I became mayor, I was dealing with a failing operation. Suffice it to say that even devoted Gotham-boosters had started to regard their hometown as ungovernable. It was an attitude summarized by an October 1993 joint New York Times and WCBS poll in which 62 percent of New Yorkers said life had worsened over the previous four years...

Vadim Goryainov: A Film Director’s Revolt

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-18T21:42:27+04:00

I remember one incident that happened when I was working on my first picture Asiris Nuna. It was a fantasy piece for children based on the novel by Sergey Lukyanenko. Oleg Kompasov, the director of the film, is undoubtedly a very talented person. And like all the creative people he is too easily carried away…

Gen Y'ers Are Conservative in Their Lifestyle

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-18T15:49:50+04:00

Generation Y is the most conservative generation since the Great Generation that fought World War II, Penelope Trunk says.

Deloitte and Other Big 4 Companies Are at the Top of The Best Places to Work for Graduates

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-18T14:45:58+04:00

Across industries, there is a mad scramble to recruit the best and brightest of a new generation, the much-maligned, heavily scrutinized Gen Y. Nowhere is the pressure more intense than in the Big Four. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has so greatly increased the need for their services that the firms are facing an epic talent shortage.

eBay: Built on the Belief in People’s Basic Goodness

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-17T18:25:29+04:00

The very first item sold on future eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Pierre Omidyar contacted the winning bidder and asked if he understood that the pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I am a collector of broken laser pointers".

Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President of Technology, Google Inc.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-17T00:30:29+04:00

"Evil," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "is what Sergey says is evil." Brin, in his role as Google's conscience and head policymaker, spends his days gripping the moral tiller - and in so doing, imposes his worldview on everyone else...

How Welch Personally Learned a New Method to Apply It at GE

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-16T20:49:00+04:00

In the mid of 1990-s a friend told Jack Welch about a new method of making a quantum increase in inventory turns in manufacturing operations. Relatively few business leaders back then understood what a powerful tool faster inventory turnover...

Business Cartoons: Lighthearted Look at Leadership

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-16T19:39:00+04:00

After collecting more than a hundred stories about leaders, we began to think how to systematize them without being boring. Finally we just divided all of them into some small groups of similar situations they describe, and illustrated each group by flash animation. The ideas for animation were born at a series of brainstorming sessions. So please don’t judge us too severe! Just see and enjoy!

How Michael Dell Learned to Delegate

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-16T11:10:33+04:00

The whole thing was one big experiment. I learned many valuable lessons along the way. Take delegation, for example. Since I had been a college student, I was used to a schedule that allowed me to sleep late. When...

Apple Inc.: Made of Passion, Style and Innovation

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-15T14:55:34+04:00

From the very beginning, Apple’s culture has always been remarkable for two distinguish features: innovations and passion. It has employed the integrator approach - the model with both...

Vince Lombardi, One of the Most Successful Coaches in the History of American Football

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-15T13:53:57+04:00

Adding to his input to the history of football, Lombardi is a legend for his coaching philosophy and motivational skills...

IBM Launches Center for CIO Leadership

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-15T12:47:17+04:00

The Center will bring together executive leaders, academics and other experts from around the world to build practical research and executive development initiatives focused on advancing the CIO profession.

Nau: Welcome to Retail 2.0

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-14T18:06:01+04:00

The members of the Nau team share conviction that, in addition to generating profit, companies have an equal responsibility to create positive social and environmental change. They use storytelling as a marketing tool and started with a retail concept that combines the efficiencies of the Web with the intimacy of the boutique.

The Container Store Tries to Make Employees Want to Come to Work in the Morning

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-14T14:05:22+04:00

Since the very beginning management has been operating under the belief that a happy workforce will translate into happy customers. Perks for employees include free yoga classes three times a week...

Facebook: the Most Widely Available Product of Harvard

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-14T09:37:14+04:00

Facebook was founded by Harvard “supersmart kid” Mark Zuckerberg when he was 19 years old. The idea of a social networking website for students took its origins in the fact that Harvard did not provide a student directory with photos and personal information, known at most colleges as a face book...

Wegmans Food Markets, a Grocery Chain Where Employees Will Teach You Choosing Wine and Cooking Fish

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-13T09:34:01+04:00

The senior management sets the tone at Wegmans Food Markets with leaders who are informative and accessible. All new employees meet Danny Wegman at the "Welcome to Wegmans" party – an event that is never held without him. Three days a week you can see key executives...

UK Entrepreneurs Voted for Richard Branson and Alan Sugar as the Business Leaders They Most Admire

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-12T19:07:56+04:00

95 per cent of UK entrepreneurs say other UK entrepreneurs inspire their creative thinking, with Sir Richard Branson and Sir Alan Sugar voted as the business leaders they most admire.

Zappos: Try Walking in Their Shoes

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-12T17:32:06+04:00

Zappos’ corporate culture is centered on a near-fanatical devotion to customer service. The company provides overnight shipping for each purchase. The warehouse is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so customers can order shoes as late as 11 p.m. and still get...

Hewitt Associates Conducted the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ Study

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-11T15:44:28+04:00

The Top Companies for Leaders were selected and ranked by an esteemed panel of judges based on criteria including leadership practices, company reputation, leadership culture and values, and business performance.

Top5 in Russia’s Best Employer Ranking Consists of Foreign Companies. McDonalds Is №1

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-11T13:52:38+04:00

Only 50% of Russian employees agree that companies in Russia are successful in motivating, retaining and attracting talent in organizations today.

W.L. Gore & Associates: an Unusual Fast Growing Company with Culture That Enables Employees to Innovate

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-11T11:52:20+04:00

There is one business legend often told at W.L. Gore & Associates. In 1965 Bill Gore was passing around a new plant and suddenly realized that he didn’t recognize every employee anymore. It motivated him to state a principle...

How “Finance For Little Folks” Helped Welch to Turn GE Credit into Big GE Capital

Maria Pikalova — 2007-10-11T02:44:17+04:00

When Jack Welch became a sector executive in 1977 he looked at GE Credit Corp. as at one of the most promising sectors. Like plastics, it was well out of the mainstream, and he sensed it was filled with growth potential...

Igor Salita: Revolution in Mars

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-11T01:09:09+04:00

“He is a dreamer”, said someone. “He knows nothing about our business. We have been working for 5 years to achieve today’s distribution level, and now he wants to triple it only in year and a half!” “He’s just nuts”, said another one. “We should get rid of him as fast as we can. Otherwise there'll be a trouble.”

New Social Networking Sites Aim at Older Generations

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-10T16:12:38+04:00

Social networking has thus far largely focused on executives in the business world and young people, because they are tech-savvy and treasured by Madison Avenue.

Only 7% of Business Leaders Are Willing to Pay for Online Business News

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-10T13:39:25+04:00

Business Leaders Seek Information from Both New and Traditional Forms of Media, Study Shows.

How ‘New Boss’ Andrey Yanovsky Came to Agreement with the Informal Leader and Kept the Whole Team

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-10T04:10:35+04:00

In the end of the 1990s I was appointed general manager of a large global company’s regional office. The sales department was headed by a man who had done a lot for the organization’s successful development and significant growth of the organization...

Private Bankers Are Forced to Recruit From Outside of Conventional Circles Due to Talent Competition

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-09T13:16:46+04:00

Boris Collardi, chief operating officer of Julius Baer's private banking division, said the Swiss bank had targeted students at Lausanne's prestigious hotel management training academy, due to their smart appearance and customer service skills.

New Global Leaders Must Be Multilingual and Have Several Years of Living Abroad, the Study Suggests

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-09T12:21:04+04:00

Heidrick & Struggles has put together a Global Talent Index that highlights some of the weaknesses of the top-ranked U.S. market when it comes to developing talent. The survey, conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit, points to tough visa restrictions and the largely unilingual nature of U.S. workers as two factors that could hurt U.S. competitiveness down the road.

India Will Be Human Capital Mine for the Next 50 Years, KPMG Partner Argues

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-08T12:20:12+04:00

India is at a one-in-a-100 year peak in the context of number of people entering the workforce.

Jeff Bezos, Founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Amazon.com

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-04T20:52:19+04:00

Bezos has promoted innovative efforts among his employees through the Just Do It program, which rewards those who come up with and execute ideas that help the company - without first obtaining permission from their bosses...

Company’s Usual Meetings Are Unproductive and Formal

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-04T19:06:15+04:00

If you are tired of endless meetings and boring presentations with a lot of buzzwords, you will smile for sure hearing about a game contrived by Art Levinson to prevent culture atrophy at Genentech. gBuzz Bingo: the more buzzwords are said, the more cards’ boxes are checked off. Does not it deserve to be probed at your very next meeting?

Arthur D. Levinson, President and CEO, Genentech

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-04T18:17:23+04:00

Unique corporate culture is the success secret of Genentech. And Art Levinson is the one who protects its mission, focus, and culture from “evil ghosts”: bureaucracy, idle talks, bloated discourses, mind-numbing...

MySpace Is Looking for a Marketing Executive in Russia

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-04T15:50:11+04:00

MySpace representative Dany Dudeck refused to comment on this vacancy, but said that the company is prepared to enter 10 new countries till 2008, in addition to 22 countries where it already has the offices.

Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-04T12:24:27+04:00

Hiring people Tony Hsieh interviews them for culture fit. And he does not care if they are passionate about shoes, he wants people who are passionate about what Zappos is about - service. Hsieh thinks...

How Andrey Kosogov Formed a New Team When No Investment Professionals Were Available in Russia

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-04T12:17:01+04:00

In 1994 the Russian stock market began to go upwards for the first time, and the most part of the Alfa Capital team decided to leave the company. Perhaps they thought...

Starbucks: a “Third Place” to Spend Time after Home and Work

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-10-03T18:35:58+04:00

Coffee shops and bars existed long before Starbucks, but the quality of both the coffee and the customer service were questionable. Having bought the original Starbucks brand, Howard Schultz started its transformation with offering better experience for the coffee fans. The company began to brew coffee of the uniform quality and became first in the development of premium-priced drinks...

Monster.com Launches First Service Designed to Promote Availability of Green Jobs

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-03T18:25:21+04:00

GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK serves as a place that connects young people and employers with the emerging sustainable economy in a concrete way, making the environment more personally relevant for both parties.

IBM and O2 Teams Are Among Finalists for the Personnel Today Magazine’s Talent Management Award

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-03T13:03:32+04:00

This award recognises organisations with a proactive approach to talent management and succession planning. The judge looked for imaginative organisational talent reviews by the HR team, working in conjunction with others.

UK Insurers Face a Recruitment Crisis, Failing to Sell the Industry to Students and Talented Managers

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-03T12:35:34+04:00

Insurers say much of the trouble has come from a failure to sell the industry to students and talented managers, many of whom end up seduced by high investment banking salaries -- though few of those careers will last a lifetime.

US Leads in a Global Talent Index, China and India Are at the Top 10, Russia Will Fall from 6th to 11th Place by 2012

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-01T18:19:21+04:00

Asia Pacific countries are giving a tough competition to the US and Europe when it comes to attracting and nurturing talent, says the Index developed by executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles and the Economist Intelligence Unit covering thirty countries chosen for the survey based on a representative geographical spread.

Jack Welch: Gen Yers are Driven, Thoughtful, Open-Minded and Candid

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-10-01T12:40:39+04:00

"Overwhelmingly, we've found Gen Yers to be hardworking, entrepreneurial, startlingly authentic, refreshingly candid, and wonderfully upbeat."

Nucor: Decentralized Authority and Sense of Individual Responsibility

Maria Pikalova — 2007-09-27T19:37:50+04:00

Leadership at Nucor started from its legendary leader F. Kenneth Iverson's core philosophy: that employees, even hourly clock-punchers, will make an extraordinary effort if you reward them richly, treat them with respect, and give them real power.

Rosinter Joined up With Belgravia and Immo Industry to Develop Business Parks across Russia

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-26T11:57:24+04:00

The partners, including Immo Industry Group, a Belgium-based industrial property company, are together investing $1bn which – with gearing – means investment of $2bn in more than 2m sq m of buildings on 15 sites.

Companies Tend to Use Mentoring Programs to Develop Future Leaders

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-25T15:14:26+04:00

The research shows that companies that have had a high-potential employee-development program in place for five years or more tend to rank several development methods above mentoring.

Gen Yers Are Starting Businesses Earlier and at a Faster Rate than 35 to 44-year-olds

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-24T13:47:11+04:00

This has to reflect each generation's attitude to risk: 72% of Gen Y business owners surveyed said they thrived on risk. A smaller 53% of baby boomer entrepreneurs consider themselves risk junkies.

Amount of Work Makes the Job Seem Impossible to Be Done

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-09-18T21:41:22+04:00

How Rudolph Giuliani learned to start with small things and achieve the larger result.

Monster.com Launches Video Profile Service, Enabling Employers to Integrate Video in Job Postings

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-18T17:15:26+04:00

The new offering will allow employers to extend their brand via employment videos, and help target and attract the best candidates.

Most Companies Treat Talent Issues Separately, Which Is a Critical Error, Researchers Say

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-17T13:40:47+04:00

Here are some excerpts from their look and suggestions of what companies can do to weather the storm.

Patagonia: the Company That Limits Its Growth and Fights for Protection of Nature

Maria Pikalova — 2007-09-15T18:57:08+04:00

Patagonia, Inc. is one of the brightest companies in the outdoor industry. Barefoot employees, cavorting pets and organic chefs - in many ways Patagonia looks like an Internet startup, but as a matter of fact it is a thirty-plus-year-old clothing and equipment company. The place is all business, but it's business conducted upside down and inside out.

Virgin Group May Soon Come to Russia, Selling Franchise for Virgin Megastore to Ritzio Group

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-13T18:49:09+04:00

Ritzio stockholders revealed an interest in non-gambling projects about half a year ago, when Russian government signed a gambling business regulating low. Now they are looking for promising projects to invest.

Investment-Advisory Firms Face a Talent Shortage along with an Inflow of Clients

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-13T13:06:42+04:00

If firms have a hard time replacing advisers who retire, the quality of firms may deteriorate and damage the industry's reputation.

The Home Depot: the Combination of Entrepreneurial Spirit and GE-Style Discipline

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-09-11T12:11:14+04:00

The founders also strongly believed in the "upside down pyramid". A right side up pyramid means that the workers’ importance to the company is at the bottom, with one executive at the top. But Marcus and Blank claimed that the most important persons for the company were the associates in the stores...

A Team Groups Around an Informal Leader against Its New Boss

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-09-11T10:08:40+04:00

You have no chance to be a real leader if your team thinks that the boss is someone else. No panic! You will have enough time to fire this lucky rascal. But first try to find out if he is really so lucky. Andrey Yanovsky, CEO of Nidan Soki, once managed to put an informal leader in his place without destroying the whole team.

To Bridge the Generation Gap, Employment Agency Randstad Teams Y-ers With Older Staff

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-10T21:57:18+04:00

This unconventional pairing is a part of Randstad's effort to ensure that its twentysomething employees – Generation Y – fit in to their working places and will be retained.

“Put employees before customers,” Container Store CEO Kip Tindell Advises

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-05T18:00:05+04:00

If you take care of your employees, they'll take care of the customers - and that will take care of your shareholders. To myopically focus on the shareholders is wrong. So we invest heavily in our employees.

CEOs Keep More Literature and Poetry Books than Business Bestsellers in Their Private Libraries

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-05T17:22:55+04:00

Serious leaders who are serious readers build personal libraries dedicated to how to think, not how to compete, an article in the New York Times argues.

Virgin Group Sees Opportunities for Expansion into China and Russia

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-05T16:50:53+04:00

In the forefront of the expansion will be the AirAsia company which was founded by Tony Fernandes, a former executive at Virgin Group and Warner Music, who has been hailed as Asia's answer to easyJet's Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

In the International War for Talent, Cities Will Combat to Attract the Best Talent from Generation Y

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-09-03T20:02:27+04:00

"Generation Y will not think twice and the danger is that when they get to vibrant, funky cities like London, New York or Mumbai or Dubai, 95 per cent of them will not come back."

How Ricardo Semler Fired a Tough Leader

Maria Pikalova — 2007-09-02T19:54:09+04:00

At Semco there were two fighting groups of executives – adherents of tough and soft management approaches . CEO of the company Ricardo Semler tried to find a compromise because he understood that this controversy impedes development and growth. But at one of the traditional executive meetings an unpleasant accident happened...

Intel Studies Russian Middle Class, Aiming to Customize its Products for Russian Country-Homes

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-08-30T18:15:31+04:00

By studying the behavior of the middle class, and how they use information technologies at their dachas, Intel hopes to come up with solutions and products customized for Russian country-homes.

Indian IT Companies Create ‘Shadow Talent Pool’

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-08-24T19:47:50+04:00

This trend is unique to India, says Nirupama V G, managing director of HR consultancy AdAstra. “Almost every employee has two or more job offers. In the past few months, we have seen many more companies asking for shadow arrangements. Consultants are asked to keep this ready-to-hire shadow warm, through occasional phone calls, short messages or e-mails,” she says.

Ricardo Semler, CEO and majority owner, Semco SA

Maria Pikalova — 2007-08-23T21:54:45+04:00

Many people have talked the talk of corporate democracy; but Ricardo Semler’s company walks the walk. Semler has let his employees set the terms of their employment: hours, salaries, wages, bosses. His unusual management policy pulled Semco out of its death spin and let it grow consistently for many years. It is not a form of altruism, but a better way of making business through enjoying life.

Companies Are Used to Edit Wikipedia to Mend Their Online Reputation

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-08-22T19:38:43+04:00

The magazine highlights the cases which illustrate a real struggle to control reputations on the Web, as well as the public relations misses that result from failed attempts to hide controversy.

Key Employee Is Firmly Resolved to Leave the Company in Protest

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-08-22T08:59:00+04:00

After first big lay-off in Apple a bright young programmer decided to slam the door because his software project partner turned out to be fired. He had only one weak spot – passion for Macintosh. But it was enough for Steve Jobs to rake him and his computer up, put them both in a car and drive them to the date with their real love.

Semco SA: Brazilian Miracle Where Employees Set Their Salaries and Sleep in Hammocks

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-08-08T21:24:56+04:00

Semco is often called one of the most interesting companies in the world. And it is actually so. There are no job titles, no written policies, no HR department, or even, the present time, no headquarters. There is still a CEO, but half a dozen senior executives pass the title every...

Gleb Arkhangelsky: How talking to my boss helped me understand that my hobby is my vocation

Maria Pikalova — 2007-08-07T07:04:35+04:00

The moment of appearance of the vocation in my life was a project of producing field mushrooms which made me very bored. I came to a president of the bank to bid farewell. I told him that I do not like this project, that I am not interested and lost my motivation...

Break up with Close Associate

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-08-03T00:17:00+04:00

To get to know about a close peer and friend’s betrayal, to bluff through the crisis, to “drive а wedge” between the evildoer and the team, to fire him without losses, but let the door open for the future. Is it possible in real life? Richard Branson could do it all while running one of his first enterprises.

Igor Salita: How I Had to Investigate a Robbery

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-07-30T05:05:20+04:00

In the mid-90s when Pepsi was about to open its new regional representative office in Petrozavodsk, I decided to test a revolutionary new strategy concerning the company’s distribution system. Rather than continuing to use independent distributors, I proposed to open Pepsi’s own offices with our own sales teams...

Career Turning Point of Choosing Between Several Opportunities

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-27T12:19:00+04:00

Good advice from Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder, who has become a millionaire at the age of 29: “To truly prepare for unexpected, you’ve got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open – so when the door of opportunity opens, you’re close enough to squeeze through.”

How Andrey Yanovsky Moved from a Global Corporation to a Young Russian Company

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-26T16:24:29+04:00

Quite recently, only some years ago career and top position in a large international company have been a dream of life for almost any Russian manager. But at a certain point of time just a few years later more and more managers began to move to the young, fast growth oriented Russian businesses. I could feel the reason of such changes in managers’ preferences basing on my own experience...

Igor Salita: The Risky Appointment

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-07-23T14:29:56+04:00

...I decided to offer Alexei a new, much more creative position in sales. That was a double risk: Alexei didn’t have sales experience, and my bosses along with HR department opposed this appointment. They told me “Come on, he’s strictly a logistics specialist,he has no sales experience. How is he going to build the corporate sales system?”

The Headquarters Make the Branch Leader Apply a Wrong Solution

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-07-22T13:57:18+04:00

How Boris Volpe Had Not Agreed With His Bosses.

How Resignation of a Key Executive Made Andrey Kosogov Reconsider the Whole Business

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-21T18:25:39+04:00

In the end of February 2006, CEO of Alfa Capital Anatoly Milyukov announced that he was going to leave. Most of other key executives decided to quit together with him. It meant that we had to form a new team...

As Gen Y Continues to Enter the Workforce, Their Day Jobs Will No Longer Define Who They Are

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-07-20T11:43:05+04:00

Ryan Healy, 26-year old co-founder of Employee Evolution web-site covering the subject of Y-generation, asserts at his blog posting What does Gen Y want from work? defines some key differences Y-gens make between today’s work environment and the old one.

How Dee Hock Took Up “Retirement on the Job”

Maria Pikalova — 2007-07-13T12:33:20+04:00

After sixteen years of unorthodox management and unblemished results, the sheep, by the standards of industrial age command-and-control organizations, was a failure. In truth, those with whom the sheep battled and lost were not without merit.

How Jeff Bezos Chose His Own Business instead of Successful Career as an Employee

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-13T12:31:04+04:00

When Jeff Bezos told David Shaw, his employer of that time, he wanted to quit the job and start his own business, Shaw pointed out some of the risks...

How Dee Hock “Borrowed” Bank Executives to work under Clerical Employees Supervision

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-10T20:06:31+04:00

...There remains an immense problem to which we have no solution. More than a hundred thousand mailers are ready to receive newly embossed NBC BankAmericards. Each card must be proofread against the printed mailer, hand-inserted, and bundled for delivery to the post office. It must be done in three days. It is far beyond the capacity of the small staff of the card center...

Mary F. Sammons, President and CEO, Rite Aid Corporation

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-10T16:40:48+04:00

When Mary Sammons joined Rite Aid in December 1999, the company was condemned for its aggressive marketing of pharmaceutical products and other consumer-unfriendly practices, including selling date-sensitive products well past the due dates...

Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Anything Store Driven by “Two-Pizza Teams”

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-10T13:00:00+04:00

Amazon is striving to attract the most talented and creative people because innovation is the part of what the company is. Jeff Bezos has promoted innovative efforts among his employees through the Just Do It program, which rewards those who come up with and execute ideas that help the company without first obtaining permission from their bosses...

Competencies Frameworks of Jack Welch

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-07-10T11:03:00+04:00

... The question I often get: "How can I manage quarterly results and still do what's right for my business five years out?" My answer is, "Welcome to the job!"

... Anyone can manage for the short term - just keep squeezing the lemon. And anyone can manage for the long - just keep dreaming.

...Performing balancing acts every day is leadership.

Steven Allan Spielberg, film director and producer, co-founder of the DreamWorks studio

Maria Pikalova — 2007-07-04T17:14:46+04:00

Steven Spielberg is not only the most powerful and successful filmmaker but also a brilliant manager that is able to make capricious talents work as one strong team. He works a lot, knows that money matters and uses his power to give young talents a start.

Competencies Framework of Rudolf Giuliani

Maria Pikalova — 2007-07-04T00:00:02+04:00

When taking a leadership role, try to achieve a clear, decisive victory as early as possible. Aim to solve a problem small enough that it’s easily understood and yields an unambiguous solution...

Top Manager’s Career Reaches Its Plateau in a Big Corporation

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-06-21T16:17:22+04:00

How Andrey Yanovsky moved from a global corporation to a young Russian company.

Choose People, Not Companies

Ivan Sukhiy — 2007-06-01T00:55:15+04:00

The purpose of this project is to learn how to make the right choice by example from people who had a privilege of being developed as true leaders by other true leaders they were born to or met with. Your choice of the leader who will make a leader out of you is your only way to the fast track. That's what Good2Work is about.

Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO, Apple Inc.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-05-31T12:34:32+04:00

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic evangelist for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and tempestuous manager...

Rudolph Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-05-25T02:49:31+04:00

Giuliani’s reaction to attacks on 09/11 proved once and for all how much he cared about New Yorkers, even if he had not always been able to show it. After this critical incident, a good many Rudy watchers assumed he had changed...

Books

Maria Pikalova — 2007-05-14T15:33:00+04:00

These are the books which inspired us to give a start to GOOD2WORK project. The initial content of our site and original concept of the resource are to a great extent based on the ideas and stories we found in this literature...

Trainings

Maria Pikalova — 2007-05-01T14:58:00+04:00

These are training programs which were created by thinkers and authors of the books included into our Books List. The information you can see below contains the name of the company and the leader and the name of seminars/lectures he or she is reading himself or trainings under his direction.

Schools

Maria Pikalova — 2007-05-01T14:52:00+04:00

These are the schools in which you can directly contact with some of thinkers and authors of the books included into our Books List. The information you can see below contains the name of the school and the name of lecturer and in some cases the course under his direction.

Employees Are Skeptical About You as Their New Boss

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-26T19:01:28+04:00

Haven't you ever been in a situation - new place of work or a new project - when people around didn't took your expertize and abilities for granted. It is a difficult situation. Lou Gerstner faced it when he made his first steps as the IBM boss.

Accuracy, Reliability and Credibility of Information

Ivan Sukhiy — 2007-04-23T15:56:00+04:00

We stick to the policy to use for our editorial content only information available from reliable sources. Our objective is to aggregate only information available from either primary (our role models) and scholarly (our academic experts) sources, or secondary and popular sources which have many times in the past proven to be reliable.

Richard Branson, Founder, Virgin Group

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-20T06:35:00+04:00

Through Virgin Branson has established unorthodox corporate structure. He maintains a controlling interest in every company he starts, but in most cases after start-up stage...

How Art Levinson Didn’t Give Way to Panic and Produced a Billion Dollar Blockbuster

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-19T22:12:02+04:00

On March 14, 2003, hundreds of angry Wall Street analysts converged on The Pierre hotel in New York and demanded answers from Genentech CEO Art Levinson...

How Rudolf Giuliani Became "America's Mayor" on 9/11/2001

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-19T11:50:00+04:00

Mayor of NewYork City Rudolf Giuliani gained national attention for his leadership role during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center...

Disclaimer and Participants’ Conduct

Ivan Sukhiy — 2007-04-17T20:00:48+04:00

Participant's Public Content License

Ivan Sukhiy — 2007-04-17T17:57:02+04:00

GOOD2WORK does not claim ownership of participant's content made available for inclusion on publicly available areas of our web site. However, with respect to content participants make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of our web site, participant grants GOOD2WORK the worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s).

Successful Hired Manager Career Abandoned in Favor of One’s Own Business

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-13T10:56:15+04:00

How Jeff Bezos decided to give up his successful career as an employee to start his own business.

Louis Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO, IBM

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-12T11:47:03+04:00

Gerstner was an extremely visible executive who maintained an active schedule that kept him in front of clients and employees. A sign in his office bore a quotation from a novel by John le Carré, a favorite author: "A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"...

Employees are Demotivated by Corporate Bureaucracy

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-11T15:00:46+04:00

How Blake Nordstrom saved family business giving “nice people” the freedom to dump the rules.

Key Employee Can’t Devote Himself to a Job Because of His Family Member Illness

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-11T14:45:09+04:00

How Lou Gerstner acknowledged the commitment of his close associate through many years.

An Employee is Responsible for a Serious Accident

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-11T14:41:14+04:00

How Jack Welch being responsible for a serious accident learned about importance of encouragement for an employee who made a mistake.

Promoted Person Appears to Be Wrong for the Job

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-11T14:34:19+04:00

How Jack Welch promoted the wrong person instead of his friend and was courageous enough to admit and correct the mistake in time.

How Lou Gerstner Used His McKinsey Consultant Experience in IBM

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-10T13:26:53+04:00

After joining IBM Lou Gerstner started from opinion polling about the company’s strengths and weaknesses. In addition he sought advice from three important financial analysts who tracked IBM for Wall Street; Dan Mandresh from Merrill Lynch, Steve Smith from Paine Webber, and Steve Milunovich from Morgan Stanley...

How Dee Hock Invented the New Credit Card Common Worldwide Name with All His Staff Help

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-09T15:24:13+04:00

In 1973, it became apparent that continuing proliferation of names for the card could hinder growth of the system. At the time, the only common worldwide identity was the blue-white-gold bands design. The product had a different name in every country...

How Walton Was ‘Kicked out of Town’ by Landlord who Wanted to Give His Store to a Son

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-09T10:10:39+04:00

"My landlord, the department store owner, was so impressed with our Ben Franklin's success that he decided not to renew our lease—at any price—knowing full well that we had nowhere else in town to move the store..."

How Lou Gerstner Fired an Executive Who Could Not Make Unpopular Decisions

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-06T19:46:00+04:00

Lou Gerstner hadn't been at IBM long enough to deliver any major pronouncements. But more red ink undoubtedly meant more layoffs. The rightsizing priority on the CEO's short list of initiatives meant that 25,000 and as many as 40,000 IBMers would lose their jobs by year's end...

Burning Business Necessity Probes the Company’s Basic Values

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-06T17:58:02+04:00

How Page and Brin changed Web ads completely but stuck to their principles.

Mutual Corporate Culture (Dress-code) Misunderstanding

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-06T17:54:56+04:00

How IBM executives met with Bill Gates for the first time.

Key Manager Wants to Devote Himself to Big Risky Project in Public Interest

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-06T16:26:01+04:00

How Dee Hock’s boss let him work full tme in the public interest retaining his position as VP with all the bank’s resources at his disposal.

Troubles with Office Machines Make Impossible Finishing Work in Time in a Usual Way

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-06T15:17:00+04:00

How Dee Hock saw spontaneous order emerged out of chaos fighting at crisis night with office machines.

How Hock’s Boss Let Him Work Full Time in Public Interest Retaining his Position as VP

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-05T20:26:36+04:00

"Mr. Carlson, I'm in trouble. When I spoke up at the meeting in Columbus I had no intention of getting so involved. I agreed to serve on the committee with the thought of setting things in motion and stepping aside. Problems are much worse than...

How Sam Walton in His Early Days Learned One of the Leadership Secrets

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-04-05T15:27:00+04:00

I had decided I wanted to be president of the university student body. I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all...

How Hock Saw Spontaneous Order out of Chaos Fighting at Crisis Night with Office Machines

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-05T13:56:17+04:00

We faced with major problems and no margin for failure. One hundred thousand card mailers in huge rolls arrived today, along with special machinery for feeding them into computer printers and cutting and folding them as they emerged...

How IBM Board Member Jim Burke Persuaded Gerstner to Put His Career At Stake

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-05T12:37:38+04:00

From 1990 to 1993, IBM shareholders saw nearly $6 billion in equity evaporate as the stock plunged by some thirty percent. In his final years the company's chairman and CEO, John Akers, cut IBM's workforce by a quarter, closing ten plants and trimming manufacturing capacity by forty percent...

How Pierre Omidyar Created a Web Cite to Help His Girlfriend and It Grew into eBay

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-05T12:35:05+04:00

While living in the San Francisco Bay Area and working at General Magic Pierre Omidyar met and became engaged to Pamela Wesley, a graduate student in biology. One night at dinner his girlfriend mentioned an old hobby, collecting and trading Pez candy dispensers...

How Gerstner Listened to a Retired IBMer’s Advice and Hired Sales Specialists

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-04T20:01:00+04:00

In early July of 1993, Lou Gerstner met with Sam Albert, a longtime IBMer, now in his sixties, who had retired in 1989 after thirty years with the company...

How Dee Hock Dug in the Garbage Cans to Find a Lost Deposit

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T21:14:16+04:00

One day stands out. I had been sent to a suburban office to learn branch banking. The manager turned me over to a crusty woman who was to train me as a teller. The very soul of courtesy to customers and a genius at her work, she was, nevertheless, of choleric disposition, not at all improved by...

How Jobs Enticed the President of PepsiCo To Become His CEO of Apple

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T20:59:34+04:00

In early March 1983, Steve Jobs decided that if the board wouldn't let him run Apple as CEO, the next best choice from his perspective would be someone he felt comfortable with, whom he might be able to control...

How Pierre Omidyar ‘Squeezes Himself Through the Door of Opportunity’

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T18:35:48+04:00

Pierre Omidyar’s father advised him, "Whatever future you're building… Don't try to program everything. Five Year Plans never worked for the Soviet Union," referring to the collapse of the nation in 1991. "In fact, if anything, central planning contributed to its fall"...

Ingvar Kamprad, Founder, IKEA

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-04-03T18:33:53+04:00

Striving to be as egalitarian as his brand, Kamprad insists on flying economy class and taking the subway to work. He believes that the company exists to improve people ...

How Pierre Omidyar Brought Money into eBay by Hiring the Right Person as CEO

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T18:15:27+04:00

eBay was a growing company and to push it to further success, Pierre Omidyar and his partner Jeff Skoll decided to bring more money into the company by selling stock to the public. Selling shares to the public meant that Omidyar and Skoll had to be more professional about the company's leadership...

How Omidyar Received Financial Backing from an Investor without a Business Plan

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T04:11:17+04:00

In eBay Pierre Omidyar had created a small yet winning team devoted to its colleagues and its customers. However, in order for eBay to grow and prosper, the company needed financial backing from outside investors...

How Omidyar's Internet Service Provider Pushed Him to Make Money on His Hobby Project

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-03T03:58:14+04:00

When Pierre Omidyar worked as a software engineer for General Magic, an Apple offshoot, he tinkered at home with his own software creation, AuctionWeb (later he named it eBay). He allowed people to use its services for free...

How Steve Jobs Made Young Apple a Client of the High-Statured Ad Agency

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-02T15:20:19+04:00

Fall of 1976. Apple II was almost ready for the market. At the same time the semiconductor company Intel ran a clever, attention-getting advertising campaign that ignored the usual technical claims...

How Teenage Jobs Called Bill Hewlett to Order Parts and Got Summer Job

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-02T15:07:44+04:00

After Jobs’ family had moved to Los Altos, Steve, still being a teen, began a project to build a frequency counter - a device...

How Jeff Bezos Flew to Japan to Deliver a Customer’s Order

Maria Pikalova — 2007-04-02T13:34:22+04:00

Jeff Bezos spent plenty of money connecting the name Amazon.com with exceptional customer service in the minds of public...

Blake W. Nordstrom, President, Nordstrom, Incorporated

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-29T16:56:03+04:00

Under Blake’s leadership the company focused on hiring “nice people” and gave them the freedom to dump the rules and do whatever it takes to make the customer happy…

Larry Ellison, Co-Founder, CEO, Oracle Corp.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-29T05:41:24+04:00

Without a university degree, Larry has managed Oracle from its roots as a database company into the more than $10 billion-a-year software and services powerhouse...

Andy Pearson, Chairman and CEO, Tricon Global Restaurants Inc.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-29T04:02:37+04:00

At age 76, Andy Pearson learned an entirely new set of leadership skills. He has found a new way to lead - one based on personal humility and employee recognition and transformed himself into a new kind of boss...

How Andy Grove Met a Man Who Learned to Manage His Own Career

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-28T19:16:35+04:00

'A story comes to mind. It was related to me by a business journalist who had interviewed me when this book was first published. This man used to be a banker. He was happily and productively employed until one day...

Sam Walton, Founder, Wal-Mart

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-28T16:14:54+04:00

Walton did not like publicity about himself, preferring to spotlight his stores. He was, indeed, a corporate evangelist, and his articulation of his company’s vision is a good example of the creation of a corporate culture...

How Andy Pearson at Age 76 Transformed Himself into a New Kind of Boss

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-28T15:28:48+04:00

Andy Pearson was a high-visibility executive, having been a senior director of McKinsey, then head of PepsiCo for nearly 15 years, driving revenues from $1 billion to $8 billion. He was known for his skills at bringing people down to earth, from any altitude. His chief weapons at the time were fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to the numbers...

How Pearson Helped Disgruntled COO to Become Tricon’s Most Productive Top Executive

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-28T14:31:00+04:00

Aylwin Lewis, chief operating officer at Tricon Global Restaurants Inc., started working with the new chairman Andy Pearson at the moment he joined the company. He was the first to point out that Pearson has lost none of his business acumen - nor his ability to be blunt.

How Page and Brin Changed Web Ads Completely but Stuck to Their Principles

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-27T19:51:00+04:00

By the end of 1999 Google was averaging 7 million searches per day, but its revenue remained small. No wonder that the company’s investors insisted on paid ads. But Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn’t want ...

Michael Dell, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Dell Inc.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-27T19:20:00+04:00

Tom Peters says that people such as Dell "have the ability to appreciate people who are independently minded.” Michael gets high ranking for inspiring millions of them to pursue their dream.

Dee Hock, Founder of VISA International

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-27T18:22:00+04:00

By creating Visa Hock gave a birth to a new type of company he called 'chaordic' organization and a new type of leadership, implying that everyone leads and follows at the same time...

How Bill Hewlett Cut the Padlock off the Lab Stock Door on a HP plant

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-27T18:22:00+04:00

The faith that HP has in its people is conspicuously in evidence in the corporate "open lab stock" policy. The lab stock area is where...

Bill Gates, Co-Founder and Chairman, Microsoft

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-25T13:16:29+04:00

Gates meets regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers. By all accounts he can be extremely confrontational during these meetings, particularly when...

Howard Schultz, Chief Global Strategist and Chairman, Starbucks

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-25T13:12:02+04:00

Howard Schultz wanted to build “a company with the soul”, a company that his father never got a chance to work for, in which people were respected. He applied a series of practices that were unprecedented in retail...

Andrew S. Grove, Co-Founder, Intel Corp.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-25T12:56:37+04:00

But during Intel’s history Andy Grove had to overcome some serious crises. The first major one began in the mid-1970s, when Japanese companies...

How Google Guys Solved the Problem of Google’s Presence in China

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-25T10:19:22+04:00

In 2002 Chinese government decided to shut down all access to Google. Sergey Brin was no expert on international diplomacy. So he ordered a half-dozen books about Chinese history, business, and politics and splurged on overnight shipping...

How Schultz Talked to 242 Potential Investors and 217 of Them Said “No”

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-25T10:09:04+04:00

When in 1982 Howard Schultz went to Italy he took note of the coffee bars that existed on practically every block. He learned that they not only served excellent espresso, they also served as meeting places...

How Steve Jobs Talked Bill Gates into Investing in Apple

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-24T07:41:25+03:00

January 1997. Steve Jobs came back to Apple as “informal advisor” and one of his first actions in that role was to accompany Gil Amelio, Apple’s CEO of that time, on a diplomatic mission to Microsoft to meet with Bill Gates...

How Steve Jobs Broke Macintosh Keyboard Yearning to Restore Apple in His Own Way

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-24T07:37:49+03:00

Not long before Steve Jobs’ second coming to Apple in 1996 he was giving a talk to The Stanford Graduate School of Business’ High Tech Club at the home of a student. For three hours he sat in the lotus position...

Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products, Google Inc.

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-24T00:45:45+03:00

Page is the thought leader of the company and continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with...

What Made Branson Start His First Enterprise And Become An Entrepreneur

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-22T00:09:40+03:00

At quite a young age Branson decided to put school behind him and leave. ‘Perhaps partly because I was dyslexic I had to try to prove myself in other ways and, in fact, sometimes if you have a slight disability in life, you can then excel in other ways...'

How Bill Gates Learned To Be Alert To Bad News

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-21T23:23:51+03:00

In the middle of 1990-es Microsoft invested heavily in interactive television expecting that the market would develop quickly. In collaboration with several telecom companies...

How Branson Appreciated Reality Show Participant’s Ability To Calculate Risk

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-21T22:29:44+03:00

In 2004 Richard Branson made the Reality show ‘The Rebel Billionaire’. In the final episode Richard offered the winner Shawn Nelson a cheque for a million dollars or an option to toss a coin for an even bigger prize. Shawn was utterly embarrassed...

How Branson Spent A Night in Prison and Got Strongest Incentive to Make His Company Grow Fast

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-21T22:15:14+03:00

In 1971 21-year-old Richard Branson happened to find an opportunity to avoid taxes, riding through UK and French customs with a van loaded with records. It helped to make about £5,000 more in profit than he could have done legally...

How Steve Jobs Hired a Star Salesman from IBM Just Showing Him a Monitor Stand

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T23:00:08+03:00

It was October 1986. Dan’l Lewin, the marketing honcho of Steve Jobs’ new company Next, needed to recruit a new vice-president of sales...

How Jack Welch Turned Meetings with Wall Street's Analysts into Intellectual Duels

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T17:49:54+03:00

On December 8, 1981, Jack Welch delivered his big message on the "New GE" in front of Wall Street's analysts. It was his first public statement on where he wanted to take GE...

How Jack Welch Won the GE CEO Race by Doing What He Thought Was Right

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T16:41:04+03:00

In December 1977 Jack Welch was one of five sector executives, who had been publicly identified as candidates for new GE’s CEO. The succession process was thick with politics...

How Welch Put a Right Person to Head GE Medical Business and Won over Competitor

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T13:15:12+03:00

Vice president of GE’s medical division, Julian Charlier, had a grandiose idea every minute but wasn't much into following up on them. After several conversations Jack Welch decided that Charlier would be better back in Europe at another company. But medical division needed a new leader...

How Brin and Page Retained Control Over Google After First Big Outside Investment

Ekaterina Zakomurnaya — 2007-03-20T12:25:17+03:00

In the spring of 1999 two star angel investors of Silicon Valley Kleiner Perkins led by John Doerr and Sequoia Capital of Michael Moritz decided to invest in Google. It was exactly what Sergey Brin and Larry Page needed because...

How Branson Launched Virgin Records as a Shop and Then as a Record Lable

Ilya Zinenko — 2007-03-20T12:01:49+03:00

In 1971 Virgin Mail Order Records, Branson’s thriving business was ruined by the strike of the Post Office workers. People couldn’t send cheques to the company and it couldn’t send records...

How Jack Welch by Hard Work Won over Product Flaw That Nearly Ruined His Career

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T03:47:09+03:00

When GE was already building a new plant for its new plastic Jack Welch who was in charge of this project found out that the product had a serious flaw...

How Branson’s Virgin Group Went Public and Then Got Back Private to Save Its Reputation

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T03:44:00+03:00

In a bid to attract more money for the further development Virgin made its shares publicly traded in 1986. The stocks sold good but it was a hard challenge to Richard Branson...

How Jack Welch Used Bad Example Method to “Kick” a Top Performer When Needed

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T03:40:34+03:00

Once Jack Welch inspected GE’s R&D sector in India he was impressed with what he have seen there. But when he has met the head of R&D sector on annual executive meeting he was surprised to receive from him a low evaluation of his people in India...

How Welch after a Serious Accident Learned about Importance of Encouragement

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T03:37:39+03:00

In 1963 early in Jack Welch’s career at GE he was in charge of experiments with a chemical process. He was leading the team of engineers which was bubbling oxygen through a highly volatile solution in a large tank...

How Jack Welch Put His Superior on Trial Period and Learned about Differentiation

Maria Pikalova — 2007-03-20T03:29:27+03:00

In 1961 Jack Welch has been working at GE for a year as an engineer when his boss handed him a $1,000 raise. But then he found out that he got exactly what all his colleagues received. He showed best performance and thought that he deserved more than the “standard” increase...