Software Business in the Middle East

I studied Computer Science in the University. The majority of experience about how to promote and sell comes from my own mistakes. I guess that some kind of business education might help in my work, but I don’t have it (yet).

Thinking about how education might be helpful, I wonder if it is really necessary for successful career and business. I will not take a well known example of Bill Gates; instead, I’ll talk about one example from my personal life.

It was summer 1996 when my friend and I started to work as programmers in one of the insurance companies. We just finished our third year in the University, so we could work full time during that summer, and part time during the next year. Our manager was a brilliant man. I think he was one of the best managers I ever had – dispite the fact that he had no education at all. After the school he worked in Electronic Workshop fixing TV sets. Then he started working in insurance, and at the time we came in he was Insurance Director.

I guess I had the same brilliant manage one time more afterwards. That guy also had ordinary Bachelor degree he got in a college in Boras.

All other managers I had were good enough, and some of them were really stupid guys. The education is good, but it cannot replace the common sense.

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