So, summer 22 is gone… and so are my several hopes. If you followed my saga of returning after 20 years of living abroad to the country I was born, I have two pieces of news. First one: I have managed to set up and develop activities of Steppebystep in Kazakhstan Training programs for 35 Ph.D. people within four months with Swiss Business School, six months of daily consulting practice to Fortune 500 Company on contract and vendor management activities, contract management and […]

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I have recently returned from a business trip to #Karachaganak Petroleum Operating Company  – a consortium of five oil & gas companies — #ENI SpA (29.25%), #Shell plc (29.25%), #Chevron (18%), Lukoil (13.5%), and KazMunaiGas (10%) which headquarters in Aksai, Uralsk region in Kazakhstan. It was my first trip to the Uralsk region ever. I traveled more in Europe than in Kazakhstan, so when I received a proposal from the Client to conduct live training for the Contract Management team […]

I see more and more healed, healthy and happy women around me. Some of them are my close friends, some of them just recently acquainted. 2 of July  is a special day for me… My Father passed away 6 years ago. He was a Great Person, he was always empowering me with his words and actions. He  was teaching me  how to be strong and honest, kind and humble.  At this day, I want to connect with good people and […]

I am preparing to conduct a “Negotiations” Course for a Corporate client, so I will read ( reread) these books this month. The picture is taking from REDDIT. Needless to mention that they are all related to the subject of “Negotiations”. “Never Split the Difference” is on top of the list. There is another good one not on the list:” Grow your values”. Enjoy!

It 7:45 am in the morning. You are a Senior Contract Manager in one of the Fortune 500 companies.  You just arrived at the office and saw 154 unanswered emails, 37 of them are marked as very important. One is from the CFO, who demands to deliver him a piece of information on the RFP proposal ASAP. He had sent it at 2: 34 am in the morning. At the same time, the Head of Section from the Operations department […]

I was reading the book “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon, and I saw stages of the life of a project in the attached diagram. After following the dots on the curve, I could find the resemblance between the description given by the Author with my own experience. How many times spark of the brilliant (at least it seemed in that moment) idea N1, N2, or N3 was leading to the thought “Why, why have I started doing this? […]