The Darwin Year

The late arrival home from London on Sunday evening was followed by re-packing the suitcase, a few hours of sleep and pick up at 0700 on Monday morning for Markus as he had to travel to Warsaw for a 3-day visit to the polish capital with one of his clients. 18 company meetings were on the schedule with the purpose of finding out the state of the Polish economy and the outlook for the companies and their share prices.

It was not surprising that companies and their managers were pretty pessimistic – one has to remember that the Polish currency has massively devalued and lost 11% only this year – and it was eye-opening that visibility was very low. Some corporates dared only predicting the next three months, but not more. Very often we heard that it is crucial to prepare the companies such, that they come out of the crisis stronger. The Darwin Year 2009 – Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago – is influencing also economies and companies it seems: only the strongest survive.

Evolution - mankind is able to adopt to environmental changes. This man realised it first

The Darwinist approach presented by the companies also motivated Markus to do workout every evening before going out for dinner with his client. Not that it made him stronger, but at least prevented him from adding additional weight but after more than a week travelling Markus is very glad to be back in Vienna where the weight-control and quest for fitness can be pursued much more efficiently.

Kerstin & Markus