Author: Kanayan Tamar

ARMENIAN BUSINESSES SHOULD ABANDON PERSONAL LEADERSHIP, MANFRED FR KETS DE VRIES

YEREVAN, October 14. / ARKA /. Armenian businesses should abandon the
principle of personal leadership, Manfred FR Kets de Vries, the founder
of INSEAD graduate business school and president of KDVI leadership
development consulting company, told Armenian journalists on Tuesday.

“Armenia has strong leaders, which comes from autocratic leadership
in ancient Armenia and also in the Soviet period, leaving its mark
on leadership,” he said at a leadership skills development master
class organized by Ameria Group of Companies.

He said it is desirable that Armenian business people adopt the
Mediterranean type of business organization system, in which the
focus is on the network leadership principle.

“You need to be able to create different teams, including through
virtual management without a single leader, but it is difficult in
Armenia, where preference is given to personal directors or managers.

The so-called mixed type of control prevails in Armenia, which can
be called as ‘neo-patriarchal management system.’ But there are some
positive trends as well and what is to be done is to be more open
and communicative,” said Manfred FR Kets de Vries.

He noted that the leadership has several fundamental bases – the
ability to assess oneself for rational decision-making, the ability
to get maximum results from subordinates; to overcome arrogance;
also teamwork and productive and easy atmosphere in the team.

According to INSEAD management professor Elisabet Engellau, the course
initiated by Ameria Group of Companies should help the participants
develop ambitions and a vision of future and learn also how to build
personal or professional relationships in the team.

In turn, Ameria Group of Companies development director Tigran
Jrbashyan said the company is actively investing in the development
of its team and has the opportunity to invite the world’s best experts
in the field of leadership.

“This is the second such event, we have had and the results are very
impressive – the team is inspired by communicating with the best world
experts, which contributes to the development of the business. Expert
advice is being actively put into practice and radically changes the
perception of the goals of teamwork, having a good impact on the work,
helping to change the mindset of employees, which is very important
in team work,” said Jrbashyan.

Professor Manfred FR Kets de Vries is conducting “2014 Leadership
Challenges” master classes for senior and middle managers of Ameria
Group of Companies and its partners.

Ruben Vardanyan, founder-partner of Moscow Skolkovo School
of Management and Vice President of the International Advisory
Board, Nubar Afeyan, a senior management lecturer at Sloan School
of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gor
Nahapetyan from Skolkovo School of Management, Robert von Rekowski,
Fidelity Investment portfolio manager and some others shared their
experience in leadership skills development.

Ameria Group of Companies are among the most aggressively developing
institutions in the Armenian market, providing professional legal and
management services, investment advice and implementation of business
projects, as well as financial and banking services. -0-

15:41 14.10.2014

ARMENIANS DON’T HAVE OIL BUT HAVE PRIDE INSTEAD: MOLDOVAN DELEGATE

12:14, 14 October, 2014

TSAKHKADZOR, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS: The General Secretary of the
National Union of Judicial Officers of Moldova Oksana Novikova is
impressed by Armenia and the hospitality of the Armenian nation.

In her speech at the 2nd international conference “Traditional and
innovative solutions to problems of enforcement proceedings”, Novikova
expressed special gratitude to the Armenians for the hospitality,
emphasizing that she is very impressed by Armenia.

“I am very grateful to Armenia for the high-level organization of this
conference. I would like to mention about the Armenians’ hospitality.

You are a really hospitable nation and we are very grateful for
this reception, that you have shown during these two days”, – said
the General Secretary of the National Union of Judicial Officers of
Moldova, Armenpress reports.

Oksana Novikova stated that one of her Armenian friends once told a
very good thing, which she would like to say about. “The Armenians do
not have oil, but they have pride instead. And I do agree with that”,
– she said.

THE AUSTRIAN ARMENIAN COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY CRITICIZES ANKARA’S POLICY

October 13, 2014

On the 8th of October 2014, the diplomatic academics of Vienna
organized an event hosting the new ambassador of Turkey in Vienna.Among
the guests were representatives of Austrian business and diplomatic
communities.

The new Turkish ambassador reiterated the willingness of Turkey to
join the EU under the slogan: “Turkey in Europe: A common history,
a common future”.

He expressed his discontent concerning the EU membership negotiation
process, qualifying it with double standard and changing game rules.

Furthermore he asked for a concrete homework, Turkey must fulfill
prior to EU membership.

The Austrian Armenian Committee for Justice and Democracy was
represented by Serge Derhagopian. He raised the question, whether the
double standard in EU membership process does not correlate with the
Turkish denial of Armenian Genocide and the low credibility of their
policy? Also he pointed out, if there is a homework to be done by
Turkey, that’s the Armenian Genocide Recognition.

Following this intervention, most of the raised questions were critical
towards Turkey (lack of freedom of speech, Cyprus conflict, conflicts
with neighbors, conflicts with Kurds and ISIS support).

The Austrian Armenian Committee for Justice and Democracy endeavors,
using every opportunity, to play an opinion making role in Austrian
community.

LA PRESSE SYRIENNE SE DECHAINE CONTRE LE PRESIDENT TURC ERDOGAN

SYRIE

La presse syrienne se dechaine lundi contre le president turc Recep
Tayyip Erdogan qui veut instaurer une “zone tampon” dans le nord de
la Syrie, et l’accuse d’avoir perdu la tete.

“L’aventurier (Erdogan) pretend que son but est de tuer les
(jihadistes) de Daesh (acronyme en arabe du groupe Etat islamique)
alors que les faits prouvent qu’il est de la meme trempe terroriste
que les adorateurs du couperet”, assure le quotidien gouvernemental
As Saoura.

Le journal fait allusion aux decapitations pratiquees par l’EI.

“Erdogan (et le chef de l’EI Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi) sont des
dictateurs”, ajoute le quotidien.

La Turquie a pose comme condition a sa participation a la coalition
internationale anti-jihadistes dirigee par les Etats-Unis la mise en
place d’une “zone-tampon” et d’une zone d’exclusion aerienne dans le
nord de la Syrie pour accueillir les refugies et proteger les secteurs
du territoire syrien encore tenus par l’opposition moderee.

Les “declarations insensees d’Erdogan sur cette zone montrent que
le sultan ottoman est totalement deboussole”, ajoute ce journal. La
presse syrienne reagit lundi car elle n’a pas paru durant dix jours
en raison de la fete musulmane d’Adha.

Pour al-Baas, organe du parti qui dirige la Syrie depuis plus d’un
demi-siècle, M. Erdogan “parle de la necessite de combattre Daesh
alors qu’il empeche les Kurdes qui veulent aider leurs proches de
traverser la frontière en direction de Ain El Arab” (Kobane en kurde).

Pour Techrine, “l’attaque de Daesh sur Ain El Arab est soutenue
militairement, politiquement et financièrement par des dizaines de pays
qui ont envoye leurs terroristes avec la protection du gouvernement
du parti de l’AKP”, le parti islamo-conservateur dirige par M. Erdogan.

La Turquie est accusee par ses allies d’avoir longtemps soutenu les
mouvements syriens les plus radicaux, dont l’EI, pour accelerer la
chute du regime de Damas.

mardi 14 octobre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com

LE PARISIEN.FR >. Le Parisien.fr ecrit > A domicile, l’Armenie a recemment inscrit a son tableau
de chasse les Tchèques et les Bulgares. Mais son problème reside dans
son manque d’experience au plus haut niveau >>.

Presque tous ses internationaux evoluent au pays, a l’exception
de Mkhitaryan, du milieu de terrain Araz Ozibiliz, de l’attaquant
Yura Movsisyan (blesse), tous deux au Spartak Moscou, ou d’Artak
Yedigaryan (Metalurg Donetsk). >.

Selon Mkhitaryan, l’Armenie a des ambitions. > dit-il qui apprecierait
beaucoup le nouveau selectionneur, le Suisse Bernard Challandes en
poste depuis fevrier 2014.

KARABAKH PRESIDENT VISITS AGRICULTURAL FAIR

YEREVAN, October 13. / ARKA /. On October 12 Artsakh Republic
(Nagorno-Karabakh) president Bako Sahakyan accompanied by country’s
high ranking officials visited a trade fair organized in the capital
city Stepanakert in connection with the Day of Agricultural Worker,
Sahakyan’s press office said.

President Sahakyan noted with satisfaction that such trade fairs had
already become traditional and had formed a new culture in marketing
agricultural production.

Primate of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church
Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, chairman of the National Assembly
Ashot Ghoulyan, premier Ara Haroutyunyan and other officials partook
in the event. -0-

MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS DUE IN ARMENIA ON OCTOBER 17

16:23, 13 Oct 2014

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), James Warlick (US)
and Pierre Andre (France) will visit Yerevan on October 17, Spokesman
for the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tigran Balayan said in
a Twitter post.

The mediators will have meetings with President Serzh Sargsyan and
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.

The US Embassy in Azerbaijan reported earlier that the Co-Chairs
would visit the region from October 14 to 18.

UNEXPECTED CIRCUMSTANCE IS REVEALED

Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
Comments – 13 October 2014, 12:23

The part of the society that is against Armenia’s membership to the
Eurasian Union and condemns the surrender of sovereignty to three
states which have no shared interests but are getting closer to
Azerbaijan are angered by the infamous part of the ex-president Levon
Ter-Petrosyan’s speech at the Friday rally. Namely, he announced that
the Eurasian Union is irreversible and those who are speaking against
it are “20-30 nervous people”.

In fact, Ter-Petrosyan says it is nervousness when several citizens
are concerned about the loss of sovereignty and independence. And it
seems that embarrassment and indignation caused by the approach of
the first president is fair. People are surprised though some people
are no longer surprised how the person who was the first president
of independent Armenia can describe so the citizens who are worried
about the independence and sovereignty of Armenia.

After all, Ter-Petrosyan may describe such worries groundless but
how can he offend people who worry about it?

In reality, however, Ter-Petrosyan with his typical shrewdness is
doing the opposite. He is increasing the importance of those “20-30
nervous individuals”.

He places those few individuals on one scale with a rally of several
tens of thousands. Otherwise, hardly such a pragmatic, reserved and
self-confident individual would be overwhelmed by banal revenge. With
his typical reserve, self-confidence, Levon Ter-Petrosyan understands
that “nervousness” of some “20-30 people” is at least as much serious,
significant and important for the independence, sovereignty and future
of Armenia as the popular movement that he has declared.

Otherwise, Ter-Petrosyan is simply spiteful if he, having declared
an entire popular movement, standing in front of a rally of 10, 20
or 30 thousand, having behind him Gagik Tsarukyan who has 10 or 20
or 30 or many more millions, spares time to some “20-30” individuals.

Ter-Petrosyan says that these people are not capable of forming a
political agenda and all they can do is stir people’s mind. First,
if these people are not capable of forming a political agenda does
not means that the concerns they express are nervousness. Besides,
despite being incapable of forming an agenda, hardly counting 20 or
30 or 300, these people can stir people’s thoughts to the extent of
disturbing the popular movement declared by entire four forces.

Ter-Petrosyan means that they disturb them when these “nervous ones”
stir people’s thoughts. In other words, he is saying “if you cannot
form an agenda, why are you disturbing us, hindering the agenda that
we have formed?”

In other words, they are disturbing Levon Ter-Petrosyan. And if they
hinder Ter-Petrosyan, those 20-30 are not just nervous ones but an
entire criminal regime. Because if the regime is in panic for such
a long time, what is those 30-30 people to attend to them during
the rally?

Hence, Ter-Petrosyan acknowledges the importance of those “20-30
nervous ones”, whether he wants it or not. He wants to acknowledge it
intentionally because Moscow may not understand or may misunderstand
him. Therefore, the ex-president uses a rhetorical trick. Hence,
Ter-Petrosyan supports the movement against the Eurasian Economic Union
between the lines. He acknowledges it unintentionally that there are
some “20-30 people” who bring up the issue of the sovereignty and
independence of Armenia and threaten his agenda.

In any case, there is no need to be indignant. On the contrary,
one has to acknowledge the results of “nervous spasms” though,
unfortunately, it is highly insufficient. At the same time, it is
necessary to think about forming the political agenda, the shortcoming
mentioned by Ter-Petrosyan.

ARMENIAN-GERMAN BUSINESS FORUM HELD IN YEREVAN

14:12 13/10/2014 >> ECONOMY

An Armenian-German business forum took place in Yerevan on Monday. The
event was organized by the Armenian Development Agency, with the
assistance of Germany’s Embassy in Yerevan.

Head of the Economy Ministry’s Investment Policy Department Vahagn
Lalayan highlighted the significance of such events for the development
of economic cooperation.

“Political relations between Armenia and Germany are deeper than the
economic ties, so we should make every effort to expand the economic
relations,” said the official.

Mr Lalayan said that in January-August 2014 trade volumes between
Armenia and Germany made $300 million, marking a 28.8 percent growth
as compared with 2013. Exports from Armenia to Germany totaled $106.5
million and imports from Germany made $188 million.

Source: Panorama.am

LE MONDE VIENT A DILIJAN : LE COLLEGE OUVRE AVEC 96 ETUDIANTS

ARMENIE

Juan Friedens du Portugal, Yelena Vasilyevna de Mourmansk, Veronika
Fugl d’Allemagne, Lina Sim de Malaisie, Alina Khachatryan de Masis
sont parmi les 96 etudiants qui etudient a l’UWC Armenie (United
World Colleges), a Dilijan, l’une des ecoles de la chaîne mondiale des
collèges, qui a ouvert ses portes aux representants des differentes
nations en Août.

Juan du Portugal a dit qu’il avait entendu parler de l’Armenie,
savait où elle etait sur la carte, mais pas plus.

> a-t-il dit.

96 etudiants provenant de 48 pays sont arrives a Dilijan du 16 au 18
août et ils, selon le programme, passeront les deux premières annees
de leurs etudes ici. L’UWC Dilijan College est un complexe educatif
mixte international pour les etudiants de plus de 50 pays.

Il est membre du > reseau educatif et est
parmi les 14 collèges et ecoles, et ouvre des voies pour les jeunes
chercheurs pour les meilleures universites du monde.

> a declare Yelena Vasilyevna de Mourmansk.

La procedure d’admission est realisee independamment de la situation
financière des parents et est accompagne d’un vaste programme de
bourses d’etudes. Une annee de scolarite coûte 35 000 $, cependant,
la plupart des elèves auront l’occasion d’etudier avec l’aide d’une
bourse couvrant 100% des frais. L’admission a l’ecole est realisee
selon les règles fixees par l’UWC – par un système de comites nationaux
de l’UWC. Tous les cours du programme sont enseignes en anglais,
mais le programme comprend non seulement des langues etrangères, mais
aussi la langue et la litterature armenienne et des cours d’histoire.

“Le collège est situe dans un pays avec une exceptionnellement belle
nature et des gens accueillants. Il peut rivaliser avec n’importe quel
pays dans le monde. En tant que directeur fondateur, je suis heureux
de la creation d’un nouveau collège qui a accueilli des etudiants
de 55 pays cette annee >> a declare le directeur de l’UWC Dilijan,
John Fatherfoot.

Selon Fatherfoot, l’enseignement d’exception se trouve dans le fond
des ecoles exceptionnelles – il injecte des capacites d’apprentissage
le long de la vie et le desir constant d’apprendre.

a declare Noris.

Selon Noris, beaucoup de gens ayant atteint le succès dans les affaires
ou la politique sont des anciens de leur collège.

Fatherfoot mentionne que l’Ecole Internationale de Dilijan vise
essentiellement a transformer l’Armenie en un centre educatif global,
où des centaines de jeunes de partout dans le monde auront l’occasion
d’etudier et de devenir les ambassadeurs de l’Armenie dans le monde
entier.

>, a-t-il dit.

La mission de l’UWC est d’unir les peuples, les nations et les
cultures afin de creer un avenir pacifique et stable. Le premier
collège de l’Atlantique a ete fondee au Pays de Galles en 1962, et il
existe un reseau de 14 ecoles et collèges dans les cinq continents
du monde. Il recoit chaque annee plus de 7500 etudiants et 50 000
anciens. Il anime un reseau Comites nationaux dans 140 pays où des
demandes sont acceptees.

Donateur fondateur de UWC Dilijan l’homme d’affaires russe Ruben
Vardanyan et sa femme, Veronika Zonabendi ont eu l’idee de fonder une
ecole en 2006, ils ont cree un fonds appele IDEA pour le developpement
de l’economie, du tourisme et d’autres infrastructures dans la region.

Lors d’une de ses interviews Ruben Vardanyan a mentionne que les fonds
de IDEA mettront en oeuvre des programmes de bienfaisance qui auront
un impact sur l’avenir de l’Armenie et contribueront a transferer le
modèle actuel de survie armenien en un modèle prospère.

Gayane Lazarian

ArmeniaNow

lundi 13 octobre 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com