by andreas | May 5, 2011 | Business, Experience
Today’s subject is psychology at work.The subject can be understood better if I describe something which happened years back when I was working in the documentary credits department of a commercial bank in Cyprus.Among the many clients which we had at the bank there was somebody who was one of the best clients. This person was very strict and demanding. Most of my colleagues in my department were terrified when this client approached them for some banking transaction he wanted, because in most of the cases he would not be satisfied with the service he had from them with a result of an unpleasant situation, where my colleagues would be reported to management, although they did their best to serve the client. (more…)
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by andreas | May 5, 2011 | Experience
It was some time in year 1996 when I visited Romania for the first time. Seven years had passed from the time when Ceausescu was overthrown and the country changed from the communist regime to the free economy system. At that time, although 7 years had passed from the date of change, a visitor could see many differences if he tried to compare with a country which did not experience the comunist system. Very poor infrastructure, old buildings with small apartments, few cars in the roads, although sometimes you could see a few expensive cars. This is understandable, and is also evident to the visitor what people had to undergo, when from one day to the other everything changed. No jobs, no money, nothing, because the country had to reorganise everything from scratch. (more…)
by andreas | May 5, 2011 | Business, Experience
Today my friends I shall tell you a few things on the above subject, coming out of my long business and professional experience in Romania.
Most of the beaurocratic systems go back to the communist regime and although efforts have been done by the Romanian authorities to change and simplify systems, this process is too slow, if we consider that more than 2 decades have passed since the change. (more…)
