What Qatar and BREADHUNTER Group have in common and what you can learn from small global players like us

 

What a terrible Arabic state without moral and human rights. Oh my God! How can you travel there or enjoy the Soccer WM in 2022? How dare you, would my special friend Gretl from Sweden say. #lol

People who think and talk like this have yet to learn about what cultures and diplomacy are about. They try to find flies in the soup of unknown cultures, especially those of the Islamic world because they are afraid of foreign cultures and have less knowledge about them and diplomacy.

I am sure you will find in every country in the world good and bad things if you do proper search on it. But nowadays, its more common to target the smaller players because more significant players in business or all countries don’t like the small, innovative speedboats like Qatar is and also BREADHUNTER.

We both were dominated by Goliaths, and we both are innovative and increasing rapidly.

Within the last 30 years, Qatar's GDP has risen from 21 Bil. US$ to 340 Bil. US$ is also because the leaders, the Al Thani family, made the right economic decisions for the future. They were hungry for a great future with innovation for their people and not satisfied like their neighbors or the western world.

The future of the next 30 years is in the east, with China, India, the Middle East, and Europe declining.

I also had this hunger when I started 10 years ago BREADHUNTER with 2.000 € private start capital because I was sick of working for more prominent companies, where you get 10% from the value you bring in. 

I also was a fan of the starting, new digitalization. I had one of the first paperless offices in 2012 in Austria with many cloud tools, while my headhunting colleagues worked with Fax and Excel and printed resumes.

„No, we don’t need Asana, we don’t need Slack, thank you. Video Calls? Hm, maybe, but it better to fly a candidate in for an interview.“ This I have heard a lot from 2009 to 2015 in Austria, and now 7 years later, after the COVID-19 pandemic, everybody is used to digital tools. I often asked myself why bigger partners or companies or even countries are so often again innovative and moving fast forward. They behave like Titanic instead of just doing it.

Smaller players are the better diplomats because they have to arrange with many partners to be successful. This is also something BREADHUNTER Group has in common with Qatar. We choose what we need from everybody, even if it’s sometimes just parts, which creates a win-win situation.  The world is like a buffet; only if you try everything do you have genuine diversity. Diversity does not mean having common sense in everything, but for the last 5 years, I have felt that in the western world, these things went in the wrong direction by woke and cancel culture.

I was ashamed of the behavior of Germany during the Qatar WM 22, which was like kindergarten and not diplomatic. We all knew that the WW would take place in Qatar 7 years before, and in the end, the media just concentrated on some human rights issues than on a great job a small country like Qatar did to host the WM 22.

I don’t like to make Qatar the scapegoat for global problems. For example, Pakistan. If Qatar would not create and built so many workplaces they needed for the WM, 80% of the population of Qatar would have no jobs and could not send any money home to their families.

The western world can moralize about the working conditions but doesn’t see the thousands of people who earned money during this period. What is the alternative of creating work for the people from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, etc. pp., if Qatar didn’t give them a job?

Would Europe for the US take all these 2,2 Mio. People as refugees or send them money to survive? I think Pakistan as a state would crash down if these gulf states didn’t exist.

There could always be better conditions for workers worldwide, but they can also be worse.

I think the point of these human rights discussions is a mistrust of the western world against Islam and foreign cultures. Yes, we like diversity and foreign people, but please only with western habits. #lol 

But this is a stupid dream and arrogant behavior of the western world.

We must respect other cultures and make compromises; otherwise, it’s just a new form of capitalistic colonialism.  I also believe that every region in the world has its rules and religions that are good for its people, and we have to accept and respect this as a 1st point. After that, we can find common sense and learn from each other.

Qatar also did so much regarding knowledge by creating a diverse, global university campus in their country.  > Education City : [Explore Qatar’s Education City | Qatar Foundation](https://www.qf.org.qa/education/education-city)

I could work for local companies as a small one-man-show headhunter in Vienna. Still, because I have liked foreign cultures since childhood and studied Islamic science and art history, I have to build my global network with reliable, small partners doing business with respect and a win-win for all parties.

With only a western mindset, I wouldn’t have so many friends all over the world because I would think: „Ah, the Chinese eat strange things, the people from Finland eat fish, the Italians just garlic with pasta, and the Arabs are just Bedouins in the desert without internet, and I am so innovative in Austria because I have Fax and a mobile phone and can protest against the climate in the rush hour.“

We should be more open-minded and interested in other cultures than just pretending to be an open culture that is only open if the other culture adopts our rules and habits 100%.

Yes, we like the Gas from Qatar, and we need it because we broke with Russia, and all Russians are now criminals (ironic, lol), but we need something from you, and you have to change. This is stupid and non-diplomatic. Yes, we have a considerable lack of cultural understanding in our western society because we are afraid of Islam and foreign things.

To be an open-minded, global person means understanding and respecting all parties and making deals. For example: As a football fan, I don’t drink too much on the street in Qatar, and I respect your religion. And the Qataris then create better working conditions for the construction industry where the companies are also responsible for their workers, not making too much profit from them.

It’s always a give and takes if you want a real compromise, but there are so many pearls to discover together in Qatar if you want it. Otherwise, you can go for a generic vacation to Dubai or the Ballermann in Mallorca, but this is like ordering a Wiener Schnitzel in Saigon.