What I Know It’s About Experience

I’m back and some pointers on what I would like to write about (amongst others)

Hi all (سلام),

I have been out of the Kingdom for 6 months now and let me tell you, I miss it.

Well, I have not been doing nothing and have learnt a few things about people of my home country South Africa, some of them good some of them bad. Unfortunately, the bad seems to outnumber the good.

Since I have been back in South Africa, I have engaged with many people and have been involved in 2 projects, both of them worth a lot of money for the supplier and a major cost to the client. After spending 20 months in the Kingdom, some of the experiences are the same for both others are particular to South Africa and to the Kingdom individually. Lets see if the readers can see which fits where?

I will be writing about the following subjects across the next few weeks, at least twice a week and hopefully get comments from the readers in either Arabic (which I believe Fahad will translate) and English. Each discussion will have both person's thoughts, clients, supplier and/or consultant.

1. The primary function of a client,
2. The primary function of a supplier,
3. The primary function of a consultant,
4. The differences between client and supplier,
5. The differences between supplier and consultant,
   
6. The differences between client and consultant,
7. Ethics as a consultant,
8. Ethics as an employee and
9. Is there ethics in business.

By the way, if you want to chat to me outside of this blog, send me a mail message at gavin.ferreiro@gmail.com or, speak to my good friend Fahad who will be a father soon. Remember, I am 1 hour behind or at GMT +2.

Wa Alaikum As-Salam until Tuesday,

Gavin