The Ethical Imperative of the Hour is Physical Distancing

…Also, the “hour” will probably last more than 60 minutes… As the number of reported infections and deaths from the pandemic grow also in Turkey, people are facing a situation that disrupts their usual lifestyle and coping mechanisms much more deeply and thoroughly than any other crisis they have experienced before. As the Turkish Health […]

Culture, Compliance & Turkey – post from 2017

This post, written in 2017, continues to receive a lot of attention. I have taken the topic up in more detail in a series of posts started in 2019. While I still stand behind what I have written here, this first post was based more on literature research, some personal experience and reflection. The 2019 […]

Culture, Compliance … and Turkey – Part 3

The title image shows people waiting to be picked up by a bus at the side of the highway in Istanbul. The are standing beneath a sign saying that it is forbidden to stop vehicles on highways to let passengers get on or off… Coping with Ambiguity and Uncertainty This is part 3 of a […]

The Law of Large Numbers, Central Limit Theorem and Strange Attractors – or The Strange Behavior of Turkish Employees Towards Limits

This post is not about mathematics or physics but about the behavior of people in the presence of rules and limits … in Turkey. When we discussed revising our Company’s expense limits to account for the currency devaluation, soaring inflation and resulting price increases in the hospitality sector in Turkey in the last months, I […]