“Sometimes you have to survive a disaster to get back on track.”

^{Jack Welch, legendary CEO of General Electric}

We invite you to a new series of webinars “Business Rollercoaster”. Twice a month, on Thursday at 5:00 p.m., we will talk to people who have achieved success. Understood in many ways – in business, sports, in personal life… Success is something different for each of us. Overcoming one’s own weaknesses, changing the way of thinking, implementing an original project, opening or running a company… Success has many faces and we will try to discover them together with our guests.

The first is Antonio Arcieri, an award-winning chef and close collaborator of Paco Pérez. Of Italian origin, Spanish by passion. He considers humility, readiness to work hard and respect for nature, which is the supplier of the best ingredients, to be the most important qualities of a chef. In 2016, he became the head chef of the restaurant founded by Paco Pérez, with which he won his first Michelin star a year later. Today, he runs the Arco by Paco Pérez restaurant in Gdańsk in Olivia Star.

We will try to find out where Antonio Arcieri gets his inspiration from? What does he consider to be his greatest success? Does he think it’s possible to make friends with failure and can it drive us? What is the biggest enemy of motivation and is it possible to draw positive energy from a crisis?

Indeed, we may be surprised at how many famous people owe their success to crisis and failure. Here are a few of them:

• Thomas Edison tried close to 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb. When he finally succeeded, he said, “I didn’t fail. I just found 10,000 wrong solutions.”
• Abraham Lincoln , before becoming president of the United States, lost elections 5 times.
• Jack Ma , the founder of Alibaba, didn’t get a job in 30 places, not even at KFC.
• Walt Disney looked for a sponsor more than 300 times before opening Disneyland, and his “Snow White” nearly bankrupted him before it was a huge success (it’s still a cult classic today).
• Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, and it’s hard to imagine how the company’s fortunes would have turned out if he hadn’t been rehired.
• Winston Churchill, before he became Prime Minister of Great Britain (he was 62 years old at the time!), lost many elections in order to get into Parliament.
• The oldest jewellery brand in Poland – W.Kruk – has gone through a serious crisis. Ania Kruk and Wojtek Since 2012, Kruk has been writing the history of the company… afresh.

The examples could be multiplied. We invite you on May 21 at 5:00 p.m. on Olivia’s Facebook page and we believe that it will be an extremely inspiring meeting. The first in a series.

The webinar with Antonio Arcieri will be held in English!

The host of our series is Hamish Potts, a native British, Resident Relations at Olivia Business Centre, whom you could meet during our English lessons. Hamish has been living in Poland since 2006, and last year he took two important steps in his life; moving from Warsaw to the Tri-City and gaining Polish citizenship!

Here’s the event

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“Sometimes you need to survive a disaster to get on the right track.”

^{Jack Welch, legendary president of General Electric}

We invite you to a new series of “Business Rollercoster” webinars. Twice a month, on Thursdays at 17:00 we will be talking to people who have achieved success, as understood in many different ways – in business, sport, in personal life … For each of us success means something different. Overcoming one’s own weaknesses, changing the way of thinking, implementing an original project, opening or running a company … Success has many faces and we will try to discover them together with our guests.

Our first is Antonio Arcieri, a successful chef and a close associate of Paco Pérez. Raised in Italy, and passionate about Spain. The chef’s most important qualities are a humble nature, readiness to work hard and respect for nature, which is the supplier of the best ingredients. In 2016, he became the head of the restaurant founded by Paco Pérez, with which he won his first Michelin star, after a year. Today he runs the Arco by Paco Pérez restaurant in Gdańsk, in Olivia Star.

We will try to find out where Antonio gets his inspiration from? What does he consider his greatest success? Is he able to make friends with failure and is failure something we can use for good? What is the biggest enemy of motivation and is it possible to derive positive energy from a crisis?

Indeed, we may be surprised at how many known people owe their success to crisis and failure. Here are some of them:

• Thomas Edison tried nearly 10,000 times before inventing the light bulb. When he finally succeeded, he said: “I have not failed. I just discovered 10,000 wrong solutions. “
• Abraham Lincoln lost in elections 5 times before becoming US President.
• Jack Ma , the founder of Alibaba, was refused a job in 30 places, even in KFC.
• Walt Disney failed to convince more than 300 sponsors, before he eventually opened Disneyland, and his “Snow White” almost led him to bankruptcy before finally achieving tremendous success (and remains a cult to this day).
• Steve Jobs was once dismissed from Apple and it is hard to imagine what the company’s fate would have been had he not been re-employed.
• Winston Churchill, before becoming prime minister of Great Britain (he was 62 at the time!) repeatedly failed to get elected to Parliament.
• The oldest jewelry brand in Poland – W.Kruk – underwent a serious crisis. Ania Kruk and Wojtek Kruk have been writing the history of the company since 2012 … again.

There are multiple further examples.

We invite you to join us on May 21^st at 17:00, Olivia’s Facebook and we believe that it will be an extremely inspiring meeting. Hopefully the first of many!

The webinar with Antonio Arcieri will be in English!

The host of our series is Hamish Potts, a native Briton, working in the Resident Relations department at Olivia Business Center, whom you might have met during our English lessons. Hamish has been living in Poland since 2006, and last year took two major steps in life; moving from Warsaw to the TriCity, and gaining Polish citizenship!

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