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In this blog, Argos’ CEO; Kevin Fountoukidis, regularly posts on various topics related to everyday activities, tasks and work that goes on at Argos Translations. If you want to get a closer look, an inside view, of life at Argos and how a translation company is run, be sure to check this section regularly for new entries.
I am definitely proud of the fact that we try to be a “smart” company. Obviously that can mean a lot of things, but for me its basically trying to work as efficiently as possible. Whether that means using technology or just simply organizing things in a way to maximize efficiency then that is “smart” [...]
As you all know, apart from Argos, I also own shares in PMR (www.pmrcorporate.com). As a result, once a month I attend PMR management meetings. Its interesting because I hear about the successes and problems of another business that I don’t run on a daily basis. I recently did a presentation for them about how [...]
Final part of my article. Hope it wasn’t too boring….
Communication is King
I have covered respect and empowering employees by trusting them. Another key tool in empowering employees is providing them with access to as much information as possible. I have read about total participation management and am fascinated by it. In such companies, salaries and [...]
And here is the next part for your reading enjoyment….
Learn to Trust
Ok, so it’s one thing to get members of your team to respect one another, but how do you make sure they do their jobs properly. For me, less is more here. Often companies come up with all sorts of performance measures in order [...]
Hi guys
I have written an article that will be publish in Multilingual magazine in a month or so. Its quite long, so I have decided to break it up into three parts for your reading enjoyment. So here’s part 1…..
Very often in sports you see the interview with the quarterback who just won the Super [...]
HP to expand Wroclaw centre Hewlett-Packard (HP), the US computer group, plans to create up to 700 new jobs at its Global Business Centre in Wroclaw over the next few years, as the fa[...]
Eldorado share of Russian consumer electronics market reaches 35% Eldorado, a Russian chain of consumer electronics stores, reported preliminary net revenues of RUB 35.5bn ($1.2bn) for H1 2010, a year-on-year increase of [...]
This article addresses the question of applying professional translation standards among translation companies. It goes on to define the purpose and contents of professional translation standards both in the US and in the European Union [...]
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