The common points touched by the second panel formed by businessmen Federico Braun, Martín Migoya, Carlos Miguens and Paolo Rocca. in the debate raised by the Argentine Business Association (AEA) were: that always run the bow and the tax issue.

Failure, frustration and opportunity they were part of the three axes of the second panel moderated by Ricardo Kirschbaum, general secretary of the Clarín editorial team.

Success or failure

The trigger made the first exhibitor, Federico Braun, owner of La Anónima, wonder if “Are we doomed to success (as Eduardo Duhalde once said) or to failure?to which he promptly replied: “We are a failed country”.

“Argentina is a failure when we compare what we are with what we imagined we could be 70 or 80 years ago,” he assured during his 5-minute speech at the EEA panel, which celebrates its 20th anniversary.

Continuing with his initial reflection and somewhat refuting that phrase that Eduardo Duhalde used to coin about success, Braun added: “If I had to bet, I think that we are more condemned to failure than to success ”.

But to get out of this mess, he proposed three strategies, which although not sufficient, are necessary for him to get closer to progress: “Have a clear strategy, be efficient and achieve a good working environment.”

For Braun, as the main and starting point of all of them: “We need to understand why we fail, what happens to us in Argentina where opportunities end in frustration”.

As a big deal, the owner of La Anónima stated that “Argentina does not have a clear path”. “On the one hand, it has a weak capitalist system and a socialist system, and having a mix of capitalism and communism means that the right decisions are not made,” he said.

“The entrepreneur is not a fool or a villain who does things to destroy”, sumo. And I add: “The only model is the capitalist one. Socialism has had a resounding failure.

Argentina in front of the world

When it was Paolo Rocca’s turn, Kirschbaum’s question focused on the global context: “How do you see the global food and energy crisis and how Argentina should behave in this context”.

Techint CEO fired: “We have yet to understand what is happening with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For me, a geopolitical cycle that began with the fall of the wall ends “.

Rocca assured us that we must prepare for the world to come, that it will no longer be “as it was” and that this whole context invites “rethink the value and supply chain and see how we Westerners can unite”.

In this sense, he indicated: “Argentina has an enormous responsibility” and that is “to develop energy resources to allow the replacement of the energy supply of Russia and Ukraine”, for example.

For the entrepreneur with a strong Italian tone, “this responsibility means developing the immense resources that the country has to transform resources into economic growth”.

Game rules maintained over time

Thirdly, it was the turn of the entrepreneur Carlos Miguens, of the Group of the same name, who took the opportunity to return to the idea of ​​”frustration” that Braun had mentioned at the end of his presentation: “The frustration is that I will give my children a worse country than the one I have received.” And in this sense he assured that “the responsibility belongs to everyone”.

“If we keep doing the same thing, we won’t get better results,” he said. And she added: “Let’s do something different because Argentina is a very difficult country to work in due to the volatility generated by having a company that makes a fortune one day and is worth nothing the next.”

“The rules of the game are already clear,” he said. And he said to the political leadership: “I don’t want them clear, I want them consistent over time. Don’t change them every now and then and respect what they say “.

He also spoke of the antinomies and cracks that end up “in increasingly accentuated poverty and we should all find a way to fight it”. “For this, politics and the trade union sector must unite and think about which country we want for the next 30 years “.She said.

“It’s the politicians who make the rulesbut it is society that makes sure that they are satisfied “, he said. And in this sense he affirmed:” Argentina has no other way out than to generate employment and be private, because politics must establish the rules of play and satisfy them “.

Finally, he hit the business sector with a stick: “They have a great dispersion. We need to form an organization that is valid interlocutor and can make decisions together.”

Don’t run the bow all the time

“The opportunity that Argentina has for what the world experiences extends not only to mining, to food, to raw materials, in many things, but also runs towards the talent industry “Carlos Migoya said in turn.

“The opportunity is that somehow we win the center of the ring again,” he said. And immediately he asked himself: “How do we take advantage of it or waste it?”

The founder of Globant developed his idea through nine commandments that, in his opinion, Argentines should not forget. And he crowned his speech with a football metaphor: “Leave the bow still”.

• How we take advantage of the technological movement that the world is experiencing
• How we train and educate our young people
• Make the young people stay. Argentina was a machine to be expelled and must be stopped
• “Let the bow stop.” the businessman said. “If you can’t change them, leave it as it is,” he said.
• Agree. Stop resetting Argentina every time it doesn’t work
• Spend Responsibly. “It is the basis for bringing down inflation, we stop issuing and value our currency. It is a basic principle,” she said.
• “How we become more and more united”
• “Thinking big; Argentina as a power”.
• “The merit”. “The merit was lived at home. If you study, you will do well. If you work, you’ll be fine. It seems that now the credit no longer goes “, she closed.

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