A few years back, I had a senior regional vice-president from Houston give me and others advice that the only way to motivate Russians is with the whip. He thought he was at the peak of wisdom, when in reality he showed everyone, who was Russian anyways, his absolute ignorance.
This, like many stereotypes comes from yellow propaganda of the Cold War that dipicted Russians as some sort of slave race under either the Tsars (who were hardly what one would call despotic) or Communist leadership.
True, Stalin did use slave labour, but this was first and foremost against political opponents not as a form of economics.
So what then? Money? To some degree, yes but that wears thin on the Russian soul rather quickly.
Now wait, if I can not whip them or bribe them, then how do you motivate those damn Russians? Or is it all a riddle in a quandary?
Truth be told, it is all much simpler than that. Russia is a great nation, one that has withstood what would have ground any other people into sand. A quick perusual of Russia's 1400 year history will quickly teach that lesson.
So what is the secret? Its in that Greatness itself. Russia and Russians must always have a great cause to strive for. Be it for the Mother Russia of the ancient knyazei (princes) or Holy Third Rome Defender of Orthodox Christianity of the Tsars or the World Proletariat Unite of the early Bolsheviks or Building Enlightened Communism of the later Bolsheviks, Russians have to have an overwhelming goal to strive and sacrifice for, to believe in.
This is why the 90s were such a disaster. The Communists fell and all the new, corrupt, self absorbed leadership could come up with was: now we will be like all other nations....what? That's it? Then there is nothing to strive for. And that is one of the keys to President Putin's success, to some degree, he has returned those ideas, albait still in a murky form.
So there is the example. Your workers are not just building and designing trucks, they are building the best trucks in the world that will be exported all over the world. Your genetisists and their lab assistants are not just making vaccines but are making vaccines which will save the lives of millions of children.
But do not make these empty words. When the leadership does not believe in what it is saying, the Russian worker will see through the smoke quite quickly and then you are in an even worse state than before.
To manage in Russia is to lead in Russia and for that you need actual leaders and leaders with vision, vision that goes further than the next quarterly report. Who is up for the task?
This, like many stereotypes comes from yellow propaganda of the Cold War that dipicted Russians as some sort of slave race under either the Tsars (who were hardly what one would call despotic) or Communist leadership.
True, Stalin did use slave labour, but this was first and foremost against political opponents not as a form of economics.
So what then? Money? To some degree, yes but that wears thin on the Russian soul rather quickly.
Now wait, if I can not whip them or bribe them, then how do you motivate those damn Russians? Or is it all a riddle in a quandary?
Truth be told, it is all much simpler than that. Russia is a great nation, one that has withstood what would have ground any other people into sand. A quick perusual of Russia's 1400 year history will quickly teach that lesson.
So what is the secret? Its in that Greatness itself. Russia and Russians must always have a great cause to strive for. Be it for the Mother Russia of the ancient knyazei (princes) or Holy Third Rome Defender of Orthodox Christianity of the Tsars or the World Proletariat Unite of the early Bolsheviks or Building Enlightened Communism of the later Bolsheviks, Russians have to have an overwhelming goal to strive and sacrifice for, to believe in.
This is why the 90s were such a disaster. The Communists fell and all the new, corrupt, self absorbed leadership could come up with was: now we will be like all other nations....what? That's it? Then there is nothing to strive for. And that is one of the keys to President Putin's success, to some degree, he has returned those ideas, albait still in a murky form.
So there is the example. Your workers are not just building and designing trucks, they are building the best trucks in the world that will be exported all over the world. Your genetisists and their lab assistants are not just making vaccines but are making vaccines which will save the lives of millions of children.
But do not make these empty words. When the leadership does not believe in what it is saying, the Russian worker will see through the smoke quite quickly and then you are in an even worse state than before.
To manage in Russia is to lead in Russia and for that you need actual leaders and leaders with vision, vision that goes further than the next quarterly report. Who is up for the task?
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