Incoming Adizes Presentation In Minsk, Belarus

 

Dr. Ichak Adizes will be a key-note speaker on the conference “Top managers: challenges and limits of competition”. The conference will be held it in Minsk, Belarus on Nov 30 – Dec 01.

Dr. Adizes’s lecture is scheduled for Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 2 – 4PM.
The Q&A part will follow after the coffee-break.

We share the hopes of the associates from the Adizes Belarus office that that the Adizes’ presentation on this important conference in Belarus will be a good opportunity to promote the newly opened Adizes’ office in Belarus as well as the well known Adizes Top-LeaF Program.

Republic of Belarus (local: Respublika Byelarus)

The republic declared its sovereignty on 27 July 1990. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus officially declared independence on 25 August 1991. Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has been the country's president. During his rule, Lukashenko has implemented Soviet-era policies, despite objections from Western powers. Belarus is negotiating with Russia to unify into a single state called the Union of Russia and Belarus, although the discussions have stalled for several years.

Belarus' economy in 2003 posted 6.1 percent growth and is likely to continue expanding through 2004, albeit at a slower growth rate. The Belarusian economy in 2004 is likely to be hampered by high inflation, persistent trade deficits, and ongoing rocky relations with Russia, Belarus' largest trading partner and energy supplier. Belarus has seen little structural reform since 1995, when President Lukashenko launched the country on the path of "market socialism." In keeping with this policy, Lukashenko reimposed administrative controls over prices and currency exchange rates and expanded the state's right to intervene in the management of private enterprises. In addition, businesses have been subject to pressure on the part of central and local governments, e.g., arbitrary changes in regulations, numerous rigorous inspections, retroactive application of new business regulations, and arrests of "disruptive" businessmen and factory owners. A wide range of redistributive policies has helped those at the bottom of the ladder. For the time being, Belarus remains self-isolated from the West and its open-market economies.