Dmitry Grishin

I graduated from the National Nuclear Research University Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 2005 specialising in “The physics of the atomic nucleus and particles” and worked for a while as engineer in the Kurchatov Institute on the Tokamak experimental reactor. Then my ways with science parted, and I became a project manager for a Russian localisation company.

Management attracted me, I was interested in absolutely everything, starting from the basics – from translation to editing – and ending with communication with company clients. I loved travelling to business meetings, learnt how to describe the company’s work, sell services, saw the results of my work and positive reactions from the client.

It was precisely at that point the Result became the most important sense of my work, in the sense that if I am working it shouldn’t just be done any old how (I hate pointless work where the sole aim is a career or money). Above all it should bring satisfaction, joy and be a source for inner development.  

From a certain point I began to notice how the same service could be sold differently and what effect it could have on the client thanks to seemingly completely inconsequential, on first glance, details which on the whole related to my personal approach to myself and how I related to what I was doing.  

Just then I understood that I could not personally separate work from the rest of life, it was hard to put on different social masks to suit a localised aim. This caused an internal contradiction and was an expression of its own kind of insincerity to both people and myself included.

It’s difficult to be sincere in everything, even more so in business. And it was even more fascinating to implement this in communicating with completely different types of people.

This is how I termed it: “Sincere management.” 

Another very experience along this path was working with suppliers, conducting numerous conversations and forming the “supplier-manager-client” chain, whereby careful preparatory work, planning, consideration of the client’s needs and a sincere approach guaranteed two-thirds of the project’s success.

At the moment I conduct seminars about management for my colleagues and manage international projects as well as consulting on localisation and management.