Jaroslava Rezlerova of Manpower has the hardest role of any AmCham CZ board member. As our Vice-President of People Policy, she is the one who has to answer when every other board member- and almost every other member- asks why the government does not understand that Czechia needs more qualified people today, not in eight months or eighteen years. When I called her a few weeks ago to beg her to continue, she had every right to tell me to find someone else to play pinata. Czechia operates under a paradox in policy. Every single business and every single politician will tell you that the country’s primary economic asset is its educated and efficient workforce. Yet, the country does not have single minister responsible for developing and implementing a people strategy that will ensure that asset grows more valuable in the future. We talk about becoming an innovative economy as if technology just suddenly appears all by itself. It takes teams of the people pursuing the science, developing the technology, figuring out how to produce it efficiently at scale, and then market and distribute it globally. We are fortunate that Jaroslava does not back down from a challenge. Not only did she agree to continue, but she also wants us to convince whatever government comes next that we need a people policy that is not siloed in several different ministries, but co-ordinated by the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, and driven by performance metrics such as business research investment per capita. Private sector leaders like Jaroslava are the reason why Czechia has risen so fast and so far away from where we were in 1989, and the reason why the country still is the best bet in the region for any investor who wants to put his money on Europe’s next catalyst of innovation. https://lnkd.in/e5m9AiFv
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2wI admire Jaroslava Rezlerova ‘s dedication and wish her the strength and resilience needed to successfully convince any government of the urgent need for changes that will lead to a genuinely educated society, capable of keeping pace with the world. It's crucial that we move beyond the belief that being a cheap manufacturing hub is our best strategy. I hope it's not too late to achieve this goal, sparing future generations from the same task.