Three top speakers, engaged attendees, beautiful venue, and great wine
tasting created an unforgettable CEMS Talk.
What is the key take away from the CEMS Talk on the topic Building Big?
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Learn from the best ones: Get the job in a top
company in your area of interest
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Become an industry expert: Understand the
business you are in
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Follow your personal values in your career as
well as in your business without compromises
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Find what you enjoy: Go for it, work on it, stay
hungry, humble and persistent
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Find a gap: Fill it in with a unique offering
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Grow wisely: No need for rapid jump up
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Choose great people who are better than you are:
Don’t go only for good ones.
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Be flexible and adaptive: See and use new
opportunities that are constantly arising
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Follow the signs
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Give back
CEMS Talk is an event concept inspired by TED talk:
- Every CEMS Talk is dedicated to a unique topic related to life and career in today’s world.
- Speakers are chosen based on their level of experience and relevancy for a chosen area.
- The audience is built from CEMS students and alumni, both Czech and international.
- The main purpose of CEMS Talk is to share real, authentic and honest stories and thereby inspire members of the CEMS Community in their future life and business choices.
Who
were our three speakers?
Jan
Hrdina: an extraordinary entrepreneur
Jan has managed to grow a family owned
business into an internationally recognized company, #1 on the Czech
market for wooden products.
His success lies in the combination of:
- unique product offering,
- focus on top quality,
- choosing the best
people and
- following and embodying his
personal values such as: fairness, honesty, transparency, family business, ecological approach, giving back.
Radomir became a VP in an Austrian banking group
before he turned thirty.
With his CV and experience, he could have
had easily an amazing and secured career in the financial industry.
Instead he decided to do what he enjoyed. He moved back to his home
town in eastern Slovakia and founded a company
producing luxury beds that is one of the top companies in this field internationally.
What is the magic behind?
- being transparent
and honest,
- staying hungry and humble,
- following the signs,
- learning
from the best companies and then applying that in own
business and
- based on his experience not trusting anyone.
Frantisek does not see a difference between doing
business in a digital or real world. Frantisek has already managed to
establish and grow several top digital companies.
His passion is the first stage
of the entrepreneurship journey: building new company.
Aiming to build a business for his wife, he founded the biggest and
most successful shopping platform for kids and mums in the Czech Republic.
Frantisek’s
secret is build upon:
- his desire for building new solution for
customer needs,
- being adaptive, flexible and open to new
opportunities and
- doing business with people he
can trust as his family, friends, former colleagues.
We thank to our exceptional speakers as well as to all attendees.
Pavlina on behalf of CEMS Alumni Board
PS: We are extremely happy for you feedback, below a few notes:
Hi Pavlina
Just wanted to thank you for a great event on Thursday, I had to leave quite early so didn't have a chance to say it in person Looking forward for more events like that
Nika (CEMS Student)
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Dear Pavlina,
thank you so much for organizing the event yesterday - we all loved it!
Kate (CEMS Student)
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Ahoj Pavlíno,
včerejší akce totální liga, smekám za organizaci a děkujeme za úsilí, které jsi tomu věnovala.Budu se těšit na dalších akcích
Richard (CEMS Alumnus)
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Ahoj Pavlina,
Este raz dakujem za pozvanie a perfektnu organizaciu vcerajsieho eventu. Bol to velmi inspirativny a myslim, ze aj najviac autenticky event zo vsetkych CEMS podujati, ktore som dosial navstivila. Tesim sa uz na dalsie stretnutie.
S prianim pekneho dna,
Gabriela (CEMS Student)