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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.
As a manager, one of the biggest challenges is creating and maintaining the right culture in your department. In my case as the CEO I am concerned about the culture/atmosphere throughout the entire company. It might sound simple, but it’s quite a complicated thing, culture and atmosphere. What really goes into a company culture or [...]
I believe I mentioned this some time ago in another post called Meetings about Meetings .
Anyway, it’s time for an update. A while back one Core manager volunteered to read a book I had bought about meeting excellence and how we can improve meetings at Argos. She presented her results at the Core meeting and [...]
It’s going to be a quick post today (or this evening as I am writing this). I was having my post-evaluation meeting with one employee from DTP and he mentioned something that I found to quite humorous and true.
How many of you, when talking to family and friends, have a hard time explaining what [...]
I have been wondering, is there an open door policy at Argos? I sure hope there is. I talk about it in my induction presentation to new employees. I tell my friends and family about it (because I am proud of what I consider to be quite an open culture). But I guess one can [...]
Its hard work being a manager. This is true especially at Argos because our philosophy is very pro-employee and we don’t want managers telling employees that they have to do something using the argument “because I said so.” Ideally managers and employees make decisions together on key issues affecting an employees work. As a result [...]
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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