User:ChristoferHelmer3841

Businessmen are usually caricatured as corrupt, careless fat cats with no interest in the common people except for what they can milk from them. Some doubtless do fit the caricature, but others are properly aware that business just works when every person can participate, and that the better off everybody is, the better it is for the company. An amazing example is how Boris Birshtein used his business connection in Kyrgyzstan to help enhance  the probabilities  offered to  young graduated pupils by assisting to set up the country’s 1st international business school. Yet this is not the extent of Mr Boris Birshtein’s activities in this area. Unrepentantly an old-school businessman, Mr Boris Birshtein has long used his ability to make connections as a prime plank in his deal-making. Where many people will keep in mind their connections only insofar as those individuals are of immediate make use of, Mr. Boris Birshtein’s memory allows him to don't forget everyone he is met and bring to mind their competence and capabilities  anytime he meets someone to whom they could possibly be of make use of. And given the extent of his list of friends and acquaintances, it's been effortless for him to bring all these individuals - those in require of help and those able to give it - together. One thinks about how, again in the case of Kyrgyzstan, he was able to encourage Charles McMillan, once an advisor to former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, to assist the small country setup its first market reform program. A wonderful, gregarious man who is at once a great conversationalist, a great storyteller and an attentive listener, Boris Birshtein’s effortless ability to make friends has served him, his workers, and those he has worked with in good stead. His contacts have always led him to the highest in the land, an essential ability when working in post-1992 Russia which has allowed him to basically get things done. Nowadays, though, Mr. Boris Birshtein eschews politicians when they're in power, having been burned by a bad experience in the 90s when accusations of unsavory business practices were alleged against him and his partners during a campaign to discredit one of his acquaintances. Mr Boris Birshtein now urges politicians and businessmen to keep to their separate spheres, recognizing that mixing the 2 can only lead to trouble all around. Moving in the spheres he does, Mr. Boris Birshtein cannot help having often had to act or accept to be remedied in a method that some would find ostentatious. But it's important to keep to the level of those one is dealing with, and though some have accused Mister Boris Birshtein of flashiness, unlike lots of people in similar conditions he does not flaunt his wealth. Not denying himself the comforts he can afford, he doesn't needlessly display his buying power! Throughout his own days in Canada’s largest city, Mr. Boris Birshtein and his wife gained a reputation as relaxed and marvelous hosts, striking the eventual purchaser of their home as nice individuals - a high compliment in Canada. It’s possibly the best lesson to be learnt from Mr Boris Birshtein: nonetheless had one has to be in business, gregariousness and charm - which of course can’t be learnt - are huge assets, and never more so than when they are used not only for immediate ends, yet to be capable to find the people that will  be capable to help, not just yourself, but others whom you can help yourself.