Unpaid Work

In terms of project work the year started slowly, since major projects were completed as of end of 2009. Not being pressed by high amounts of running cost, and feeling a little bit tired from the last year in which, in addition to the work provided by my staff, I personally completed around 200 cons... [More]
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Management and Board Work

As you may know, part of my job as management consultant is to be a nonexecutive board member of several companies, supporting the executive directors in all matters related to accounting, finance, restructuring, and strategy development. But the distinction between nonexecutive and executive starts... [More]
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Executive Management Seminars

It is a long time that I wrote my last entry - and I have to apologize not to have been more "regular", considering that my intention was to write at least once a week what is going on in "the life of a management consultant". I promise not to give such a break again.... Well, to be frank, not much... [More]
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Presentations, presentations

These weeks are very tiring, and, looking back to the summer, I am quite angry with myself to have shifted some work already known to the last minute, instead of using the quiet summer times, when everybody was in holidays, for preparations. This week I will give a presentation on "Restructuring for... [More]
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Season has started

Even it it takes longer in Turkey than in the cold countries of Northern Europe, the summer is slowly fading away. Schools and universities have started already in September, people are back from their summer houses, and the summer venues of the famous Istanbul bars and restaurants at the Bosphoru... [More]
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Dr.Joachim Behrendt

Dr. Joachim Behrendt, founding partner of BIC Behrendt International Consulting,worked as a management consultant in the areas of accounting, finance and restructuring for numerous multinational, German and Turkish companies for more than 20 years.

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