I was cycling in the dark the other night through a large crossroad in Bucharest. There were two policemen there as well trying to speed up the traffic. As I was passing by one said to me: “Your vest, where is your vest?” And I went on. He did not stop me and did not show his muscles either. Frankly, I did not know that I should be wearing a light reflecting vest when biking at night. I checked then regulations; there was no mention about such vest. (But I learned I still need an additional light in front to be both safe and compliant.) However, it makes perfect sense. Maybe my life will have been saved in the future by just wearing such garment.
So, I am grateful to that policeman. He could have kept his mouth shut with no consequences for him. He had chosen to make the effort and have a clear conscious for preventing something terrible in the future.
My point is not to keep expressing your thoughts all the time (which will make you look uglier then the worst mother in law), but when things have the potential to get awfully wrong or have the opportunity to get brilliantly well open your mouth and air your thought.
Nicolae Iordache Iordache
Nicolae Iordache Iordache has 15 years of professional activity in the NGO sector and pharmaceutical business. Graduated as medical doctor, he holds an MBA joined degree from Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio and CEU School of Business, Budapest, Hungary. He has more than 11 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry ranging from medical representative to senior level. His main interest is field force effectiveness and he has been consulting for pharmaceutical companies holding either global or regional leadership, both R&D and generics. Nicolae Iordache Iordache was involved in consulting projects in 14 countries, especially in CEE and Mediterranean region. Within some of the consulting projects he has trained and developed FLSMs and FFMs in skill and capability development. Iordache is a former Country Manager of Richter Gedeon in Romania and was responsible for all sales and marketing activities for the imported portfolio of the company. In this function he served as advisor, keynote speaker and chairman in several occasions at pharmaceutical industry events. Nicolae Iordache Iordache has established, and is Managing Director of, Iordacheiordache T&D, a company specializing in human performance and productivity especially in sales organizations with the aim to support highly motivated sales executives to lead effective sales teams.
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