Gerke Witteveen and the country where everything is possible
Starting from November 2016, Romania is back in Gerke Witteveen’s life. He joined NN Life Insurance in Romania as CFO and he is also President of the Netherlands Romanian Chamber of Commerce (NRCC). Actually, Romania is a constant in his life. Prior
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Cristiana Patru
- 27/02/2018
Kim Vrânceanu, Bucharest Properties, an American living the “Romanian dream”
The American Kim Vrânceanu first visited Romania more than 25 years ago while working on a project centered on orphanages. She remembers the sadness of the city and the armed guards at the airport. But this didn’t discourage her at all. She came quit
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Cristiana Patru
- 01/08/2017
Carlo Barban, Winmarkt, an Italian living in “la terra delle opportunità”
Carlo Barban (38) is not a typical Italian, he talks fast, but not loud, and he’s not using a lot of hand gestures. He first arrived in Romania in 2005, working for a consultancy company, and after a few years, he became the CEO of Winmarkt, the most
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Cristiana Patru
- 16/07/2017
Kent Orrgren, World Class Romania or the fit Swedish state of mind
Let’s face it: being an expat isn’t easy at all. Moving to a different country, in a different culture and in a different landscape. But with a background in competitive sports, things become more challenging and interesting. Kent Orrgren (47), CEO o
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Cristiana Patru
- 23/06/2017
Lucian Stănilă, Arthur Murray Dance Studio: „Romania is where my heart is”
Lucian Stănilă was born in the beautiful city of Sibiu, in 1976. He remembers dancing since he was three years old, but he became professional at the age of 14. He wanted to show the world what he is capable of, and in 2000 he took the plane to USA,
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Cristiana Patru
- 02/06/2017
Delia Dumitrescu, the fascination of a curious mind
For the young Romanian Delia Dumitrescu (31) “innovation” could be her middle name. She has a job with a funny name – Lead Innovation Architect, but her work is very important because innovation means helping companies come up with meaningful ideas,
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Cristiana Patru
- 27/04/2017
Javier Garcia del Valle, CEO Happy Tour. When a happy man meets Romania
He defines himself as a pure optimistic person. He sells vacations for Romanian tourists (and not only), but is himself on a “permanent” holiday in Romania. Born in Malaga, near the sea side, he moved from Spain to Bucharest 9 years ago and he never
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Cristiana Patru
- 18/04/2017
#InfoLeaders EN. Tasks You Do Every Day That Waste Time and Cost Your Business Money
There’s that one person on your team — the bad apple who has nothing positive to say, riles up other team members, and makes work life miserable. If you can’t fire them, how do you manage a toxic employee? And as long as we’re talking about the workp
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Cristiana Patru
- 27/10/2016
They Have Succeeded! London, October 22nd 2016, by Elite Business Women
UK opens its doors to female entrepreneurship and Romanian women entrepreneurs. Following the success with over 1300 Romanian female entrepreneurs, the conference They Have Succeeded will cross the country borders, for the second time this autumn, af
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Cristiana Patru
- 17/10/2016
5 ways to grow your business at IMWorld. Coming up on October 5th & 6th
IT solutions have a massive impact on business growth and their power keeps getting stronger. Staying ahead of tech developments may be a challenge, and that’s why over 130 professionals from all over the world meet and share their knowledge in Bucha
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Cristiana Patru
- 26/09/2016
#InfoLeaders EN. How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative; One In Five Bosses Is a Psychopat
Knowing we’re being manipulated doesn’t stop it from happening, new research points out, contradicting older theories that say manipulation is best performed on a public kept in the dark about what’s going on. A new study from IBM says that CEO’s loo
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Cristiana Patru
- 22/09/2016
#InfoLeaders EN. Best Capitals; Jobs of the Future & Managing Smarter People
The best managers hire smart people to work for them, but being the boss of someone who likely is smarter than you can be quite tricky. Luckily, there’s expert advice on that and a good list of Do’s and Don’ts. Meanwhile, we’ve got a good case study
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Cristiana Patru
- 09/09/2016
A Leadership Model For The Planet
Our economic ambition, based upon an anthropocentric world view and unlimited consumerism is causing ecological collapse. For all it faults capitalism has demonstrated an incredible dynamism. Given the control over resources that managers hold, a reo
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Cristiana Patru
- 26/08/2016
Brexit or Bust…!
Dr. Andrew Taylor (University of Hull), Ph.D. in property rights and environmental conflict, writes about the most important European issue of this moment – Brexit. First of all, „How did we get here?”. Philosophically, the Anglo-American model of th
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Cristiana Patru
- 28/06/2016
Leadership: Why Think Small?
The size of the literature on leadership is inversely proportional to its ability to shine a universal light on upon its definition or definition of its characteristics. Despite interest in the subject and recognition of its importance since at least
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Cristiana Patru
- 11/06/2011