With the 2025 edition, of the Business Store Catalog «young top managers», we gathered, in 20 editions, 2,000 young people, with all their career, either by executive or by the entrepreneur. Many have grown in all these years, others were lost on the road. Today's number in Business Magazine, dedicated to 100 young top managers, comes with a question: what mistakes did they make, who have ensured their success?
The most optimistic product of Business Magazine – the catalog 100 young top managers – has reached the 20 edition, almost without realizing how quickly the time has passed. In 2006, Business Magazine launched this editorial product as a bet for the future, including in over one hundred pages 100 young people under 40.
For example, Călin Drăgan, who at that time was at Coca-Cola HBC Romania, and is now at Coca-Cola Japan, managing a market of over $ 10 billion.
Or Dorel Piti's extremely interesting career, an extremely discreet banker (that's why I didn't even put the picture) who in 2006 was at Bancpost, but is now at the UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland and which for more than a decade manages a few billion euros, maybe over 4-5 billion, or even more, the money in Romania.
No one knew where they would get to their professional career over the years, not even them. How to know in 2006 what career will Călin Drăgan or Dorel Piti have? Or the spectacular business career of Iulian Stanciu, who dreamed of making eMAG the most online retailer in Romania. And he even succeeded. In 2006, when Business Magazine started the project young top managers, Romania's GDP was at 97 billion euros, with an average salary of 866 lei, ie 236 euros, at a currency course of 3.5 lei/euros. Now, the average salary goes to 1,100 euros, with an estimated GDP, this year, to reach 380 billion euros. No one visualized, in 2006, where Romania will arrive, let alone the 100 young top managers who were included in the first catalog. With the 2025 edition, I gathered 2,000 young people with all their career, either executive or entrepreneur. Many have grown in all these years, others were lost on the road.You can see here Gala Business Magazine – young top managers, 2025 edition
The number in Business Store dedicated to the 100 young top managers comes with a question: What mistakes did they make that they have ensured their success? A career also includes many mistakes. I do not know if we learn from them, but sometimes these mistakes can help you. In a professional life, the chance matters a lot, it matters a lot to be there, at the right time, more than the knowledge and experience you have, more than what you know. In a company, especially in a corporation, from a certain level, it matters more networking, relationships, how you are viewed by the above. For many young managers, the 20 years have been years of glory; For many others, they were lost years, when they draw a line and see what they did and where they arrived. Many think they could have gotten better if they had made other decisions. Of course, when you know how the times have evolved, you can say that you would have acted differently. What has happened in the last 20 years in the Romanian business-in fact, in the last 25-30 years-will be something unrepeatable. Many had an extraordinary chance to open the world of corporations or the world of Romanian entrepreneurship. When a new world is created – and, after 2000, when the decision to enter NATO and the European Union was made, a new world was created – then the biggest businesses are done or the largest professional ascension. Many Romanian executives had an extraordinary chance to occupy, young people, some top positions, which they would never have managed to occupy in a seated economy, as the economy of Romania is beginning to be now. The assault of multinationals in Romania, the emergence of office buildings, technological exponential development have opened many opportunities that are happening only once in their career. When Business Magazin put and puts in the pages of the catalog young managers of some young people, he thinks about the stories they could write about them, if they confirm. Even when some failure – especially as entrepreneurs – is also a story, perhaps more interesting than the story of a young manager who was successful. For Business Magazine, this catalog also shows our resilience in this world media, which has registered amazing transformations. Including the prince is now something exotic, given that the new generations are born digital or look and read everything only on the mobile phone. But, in the end, no matter how and where it is read, the story remains, as the stories of these 2,000 young managers I have collected in the last 20 editions in the Catalog 100 young top managers. We do not claim that we discovered and included all those who had fascinating professional careers, both in corporations and in business. After all, it is a subjective selection of those who publish this catalog. But the ones I included are part of the Romanian business, they put a brick on the economic transformation of Romania, and some of them are even part of the best 11 business of Romania. Business Magazine continues to write the story of the Romanian business and the story of the people
100 young top managers selected each year. I do not know what the future will reserve in a world as complicated as today, but as long as there will be business, there will be entrepreneurs, and executives, and young managers.
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