[ Sergey Filianin's blog and reflections ]

Stimulation or motivation, do you know what you’re really using?
I think I would not be greatly mistaken if I assumed that far from all managers and business owners are satisfied with the results of the motivation models they use. Try to imagine a sales or service department without an

Marketing: Three Filters for a Manager as the Key to Success!
Every entrepreneur knows: without modern marketing tools, it’s extremely difficult to achieve business success. However, their improper use can become a real black hole, consuming huge resources without any return.

On the Nature of the Managerial Sense of Hidden Losses
At a certain stage of a leader’s managerial maturity, a special sensation may begin to arise within them.

Markup, Profitability (Margin), Discount!
Today I encountered an interesting problem. It turns out that for many people, the concepts of markup and profitability are not different. When talking about the profitability of selling goods or services, they freely use one term or the other,

We Don’t See What We Really See!
It might sound strange, but we constantly encounter the fact that we see what is shown to us, not what actually is. As a result, we don’t perceive the real picture and make decisions based on false beliefs. When

How to Deal with an Aggressive Idiot?
It seems like a simple question; what could be unclear about it? But I decided to ask the clever Grok 4 anyway.
So, the question: “How would you describe the behavior of an aggressive idiot?”

LAM loss map — map of losses
“The causes of problems often do not lie in the individual elements of the system, but in the connections between them.”
— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems

LAM (Loss Avoidance Methodology) Tools
“To name the problem is to get halfway to the solution.”
— Charles Kettering

LAM — новое мышление для бизнеса!
«Тот, кто познал причины, владеет последствиями.»
Аристотель.