CEO worry less about costs and more about good client relations

According to the research of Conference Board and Cap Gemini Ernst&Young, Polish managers are more optimistic about perspectives for the economy than last year. The number of those placing stress on reducing costs over the last year dropped from 61.2% to 54.2%. CEOs now place more emphasis on building long-term relations with their clients. According to Jarosław Myjak, the president of Commercial Union Polska, the market economy is still weak despite the economic reforms introduced over the last 13 years, while new regulations strengthen the position of uncompetitive state-owned conglomerates. "The best business is done in the sphere where the state and the politics meet," claims Zdzisław Chabowski, president of tire producer Dębica. Emil Wąsacz, a former treasury minister and current president of Stalexport, believes that after the country becomes a full member of the EU, Poland will be threatened with mass emigration of its most talented people. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) M.M.