How can the entrepreneur detach his role from the role of his business? All too often, I come across entrepreneurs dealing with their businesses as if they are their own lives. This is a basic principle – in order to be able to resolve any issues within the business, the entrepreneur first has to realise […]

Quality certification in the field of foreign language businesses in Greece? the traps for certified and non-certified businesses? the standpoint of Greece and other EU countries towards the certification factor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1) The quality or qualifications certification should depend on specific criteria which have been communicated and persuaded consumers by the outcome. A label, whether […]

In 1989, I was employed in private, non-formal education, setting up the first Oxford University office for exams and certifications in Thessaloniki, which then evolved into educational publishing. During those years, English language & culture graduates waited in line for more than 10 years (before the Personnel Selection Council, ASEP, was founded), to become appointed […]

Running a business is a profession in itself. Two years ago, I introduced the concept of parallelism to business and the human body. By correlating various human resources to the different parts of the body, the position of the business owner becomes the “brain” of the business “body”. If this brain is to guarantee the […]

Small and medium enterprises throughout Greece keep changing. External factors (financial bottlenecks, new legislation, saturation, financial recycling of the market etc.) force SME owners to approach their customers in a totally different way. These changes are already noticeable and are anticipated to peak within the next 12-18 months. Hyphen SA and the αriston project both […]

The secrets of successful small and medium business succession Intra-family succession is very common in small and medium family businesses around the world and is the backbone of every mature economy, particularly in the wake of the financial crisis. The reason behind this is obvious; even if children coming from a family of entrepreneurs have […]

A business’ success in developing and implementing a strategy for production and exports, does not lie solely in the outcome of its products’ quality or innovation. It requires marketing that is not only limited to advertising and promotion, but also uses a very specific business structure that continually aims to identify and meet the clients’ […]

Since the advent of the current economic crisis, the term “extroversion” has been considered a panacea for Greece’s unfavourable economic conditions. There was much talk about the need to increase exports and reduce imports whilst even greater investment was poured into our national tourism industry, our high quality agricultural products, our raw materials and everything […]

Codex is defined as ‘code’, but in terms of entrepreneurial empowerment, it means that entrepreneurship is woven into people’s DNA, whether they own a business or not. Entrepreneurship exists within the employer–employee relationship since the employer is the employee’s most important client. As such, the employee’s behaviour is governed by the need to adopt entrepreneurial […]