Confidential

Career Advice

January 2018

Catalin Iorgulescu
General Manager Samsung SSCE

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Contents

I. The Plan - Creating and Scrapping

II. The Skills

III. The Attitude

IV. The Work

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WAY FORWARD
 The Plan

CREATING :
• It has to be Long Term
 With Checkpoints (e.g. 3, 5, 7 , 10 and 15 Years)
• Not prescriptive and exact
 You will need to adapt!
“It is not the strongest, not the smartest that will succeed but the most
adaptable”
Charles Darwin

SCRAPPING :
• Creativity runs in cycles and…each cycle begins with scrapping…
“Fear is the path to the dark side”
Yoda
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The Skills

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 The one thing you will
always carry with you is
your knowledge
your experience
your skills
your attitude
Take
the journey…

…to become the

best version of
yourself
Use all the tools the at
your disposal
 The Skills : WHY focus on knowledge?

 Companies will rise and fall

 Profits will come and go – who knows where last year’s

money are now?

 Stock exchanges, the mighty light house of the world

beaconing from NY will fall again drowning spirits for years.

 But the one thing you will always carry with you wherever you
go is your knowledge, your experience

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The great depression
The Romanian Soldier on the Front
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The Attitude

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Don’t
 Cooperate and forget…

What you have been taught in school

Don’t be proud or fearful, get all the help you can !
Conclusion

Do what you can,

where you are,
with what you have!

Theodore Roosevelt
USA President 1901-1909
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The Work

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How do we get the unusual?

“IS THIS THE

BEST WE CAN
DO?”

Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State (1973-1977)
I did my best
Remember
YOU are Lucky!