Many sports enthusiasts have likely followed the Giro d’Italia road cycling race over the past few weeks. The race was won by Simon Yates (Team Visma – Lease a Bike) by a margin of less than four minutes. After more than 82 hours on the bike and three weeks of racing, the gap between first and second place was just 3 minutes and 56 seconds. Yates only secured the lead on the very last competitive day. That’s how tight and demanding this sport is.
In professional cycling, every detail matters: team composition, equipment, training plans, nutrition, daily recovery, race-day form, and strategy all play a vital role.
It’s not much different in the business world. Competition is fierce across industries. All major players have access to resources, know-how, talent, and market insights. The margins separating winners from the rest are often razor-thin. The real question is: can you find and capitalize on your unique competitive edge?
In Visma’s case, it was a brilliant race-day strategy, built around the strengths of top riders like Simon Yates and Wout van Aert, and executed to perfection.
Despite the rise of AI-powered tools, the human factor remains essential in business success. Strong leadership, skilled teams, and seamless collaboration continue to make the difference.
Make sure your leaders, managers, and colleagues are ready to perform on race day!
György Balázs
I’ve been working in HR field at companies for 27 years, 24 out of these as HR manager. I gained experience in companies of all types and sizes, from large American multinationals to large Hungarian companies, from FMCG to agriculture and the IT Telco sector.
Organization Development Consultant, Leadership Expert, Facilitator and Business Simulations Trainer. Partner and Consultant at Flow Group in Central Asia. Professionally helps people and organizations to reinvent and transform through changes to build lasting impact.
Co-Founder of FLOW Group International, I combine a passion for future trends and innovative approaches to life improvement, with expertise in People, Organizations and Culture Development.
Ian’s talent is translating complexity into simplicity. This applies especially well in his chosen areas of M&A, Leadership, Executive Coaching, Executive Team Alignment, Change Management & Strategy which he performs all over the world.
I am a qualified economist and have an MBA degree. After 7 years in HR consulting I spent 4 years in senior management positions working for ICT companies. I returned to consulting in the spring of 2005 as an associate managing director of Creanova; I work as a partner and senior consultant/trainer of the Flow Group.
Starting out at the University of Economics and most of all with the priceless experience AIESEC provided to me in as a student, I can now look back on a multifarious, colorful and successful career of 20 years.
Economist by education, Organization Development consultant by profession, one of the founding partners of Flow. I had my share of middle and top-level management exercise in multinational environment at the early years of my professional career. During the 35 years gained experience in the airline and courier industries, built a few successful consulting organizations, steered a school and a technology start-up. Experienced in leadership on the practical and the development sides as well. Recently I’ve enjoyed working in agile leadership and Organizational Network Analysis.
I am an organization development consultant, a senior trainer, a founding member and the managing partner of the Flow Group. I have been into organization development for 15 years and have 20 years of experience with running training courses.
Andrea Frenyo
