What I’ve Learned About Success…

Success is a subjective concept, and often a temporary one. For me, true success is built on the absence of fear toward the new, confidence in your own abilities, the capacity to adapt quickly, and flexibility in finding solutions. When these qualities are present, success becomes achievable in any field.

What I’ve Learned About Overcoming Challenges…

Challenges are situations we haven’t faced before – and uncertainty naturally brings fear. What I’ve learned is not to hesitate to ask others for support or information. Even if the answer isn’t complete or immediately helpful, gaining a different perspective often unlocks clarity and points me in the right direction to solve the problem.

What I’ve Learned About Communication…

Effective, structured information exchange between departments can drastically reduce duplicated effort and significantly increase the overall efficiency of the company. However, this only works when communication is consistent. Irregular or occasional communication almost always leads to gaps, misunderstandings, and lost information.

What I’ve Learned About Leadership

Leadership is the ability to lead by example – consistently and with integrity.

What I’ve Learned About Personal Growth

Personal growth means striving to become the best version of yourself. It requires continuous learning, curiosity, and a willingness to seek out new knowledge. During my time at EBS, I’ve changed how I perceive complexity – understanding that the more complex a project or task is, the higher the likelihood of mistakes or unexpected outcomes. And that’s normal. What truly matters is addressing issues on time and minimizing their impact.

What I’ve Learned About Work-Life Balance

Today, I can confidently say that I’ve established a healthy balance between work and personal life. The hardest lesson was accepting that challenges at work never truly end. I used to push myself to do everything possible in order to “clear” the next day, which gradually led to emotional burnout.

Even after work, my thoughts stayed focused on unfinished tasks, accumulating into chronic fatigue and inevitably affecting my performance. What changed things for me was prioritization, learning to stop doing other people’s work, and setting strict boundaries. What stays at work stays at work. If something requires extra time or effort, it gets done during working hours – work does not come home with me.

What I’ve Learned About Mistakes

The most important lesson I’ve learned about mistakes is that almost anything can be fixed – but there is always a price. That price is paid either in time or in money.

The biggest mistake of my career happened because of a careless action. I accidentally and permanently deleted three years of 1C database data for a company I worked at – just one month before the annual reports were due. The price was a month of working almost without sleep.

At the time, I had just joined EBS. During the day, I worked at my new role; in the evenings, in another office, I was restoring three full years of financial data. And I succeeded.

What I’ve Learned About EBS

When I joined EBS, I was very far from the IT world, and the company had a profound impact on me personally. I had to absorb an entirely new domain – from understanding what code really is (beyond colored symbols) to learning how IT project cost structures work.

No, I still can’t write a single line of code – for me it’s still  just colorful letters and numbers. But from a financial and business perspective, my understanding has grown exponentially.