Business risks or what is St. Petersburg entrepreneur afraid of?

Delovoy Peterburg on Friday organized a round table on the topic of Business Risk Assessment. Fun event. First of all, it was striking that fifteen directors of medium and large companies of St. Petersburg were not in a scrap at nine in the morning of Friday to get ready to talk about painful issues. By the way, here are the journalists, who always complain that companies appoint events at an inconvenient time for them, gathered businessmen so early in the day. What is it, social revenge or workaholism?

The round table was devoted to the results of a study of the significance of potential threats to a business. It turned out that businessmen are afraid of tightening tax legislation, rising inflation and a banking crisis like fire. The problem of 2008, which already allows officials to hack up entrepreneurial initiative at the root, simply because of the uncertainty of the future, causes no less concern. I was amused by a Microsoft representative who did not disclose the level of software sales over the past year, but assured them that they had not changed. Something I doubt, since the WTO has been looming on the horizon for several years now, most of Peter’s companies are “whitening” software, wages, incomes and everything else. It was instructive to acknowledge the director of a construction company that he prefers to hire only Chinese. And they work better and ask for less. Most of the jobs will soon move to them, and in the director's offices the portrait of GDP will be replaced by Mao.

In general, the general level of discussion was rather low, which made them all come, I wouldn’t mind.