“Adrem is a mature business, which is preparing to enter a new stage of its development” said Corneliu Bodea, CEO of Adrem and President of CRE, during the ZF Business Lessons show, in an interview about what it means to be an entrepreneur in an unpredictable environment, the opportunities for the energy sector in the next 10 years and when it is time to expand your business outside the country’s borders.

Lesson of 2020

According to him, sustained investment in one’s own business, but also in individual training are mandatory for any entrepreneur, in the making or already reaching business maturity.

“The lifelong learning approach must be a necessity. To hold the responsibility of leading people, you must be competent, and competence is only achieved through continuous learning.”

And although many do not take into account physical endurance, Bodea says that this element is extremely important to be able to manage the stress that entrepreneurship always comes with. “Entrepreneurs must care for themselves. Entrepreneurship is difficult, it is a total union with your goals. Entrepreneurship requires a much above average resistance to take the shocks and recover. You are permanently on the battlefield. You have to take care of yourself. Learn, be brave, take care of yourself and have pretty much everything you need to become an entrepreneur.”

The past year, 2020, has thus become, through all the tension brought, one of the biggest exams for local entrepreneurship, including for Adrem, but Bodea says that in the end the balance is on the plus.

“As an entrepreneur, it was a good year because I am the kind of crisis entrepreneur. Such a period awakened my senses and gave me the opportunity to see that I am still responding well. I made quick decisions. This made 2020 one of the best years financially and with the help of the state, but also through the quick decisions aimed at controlling costs.”

Of the 1,500 people, about 1,000 are on the ground, most of them electricians, the service area for the energy industry being the main business of the Adrem group. If the electrical works were put on hold, the Adrem teams acting only for the emergencies of energy customers, the major automation projects continued, so that at the end of 2020 it was on the rise. “I believed in people and I relied on them. This is an important lesson. I trusted them, they trusted me, and that mattered a lot. For me, the fact that I validated this trust was very valuable.”

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