Meeting Gulmirza Javadov from SOCAR

The interview

Mobility has always played a significant role in my exciting but also stressful life as an internationally active businessman, diplomat and globetrotter. If, like me, you work in the energy sector and head a government, national oil and gas consortium, you are all too aware of how great the global mobility demand will be today and in the future. I believe that humans are naturally mobile and curious, researching and acting. I've been traveling all over the world since the beginning of my career. I travel to business meetings, conferences and congresses in cities such as Dubai, Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Baku — sometimes even in a week. Thanks to airplanes, trains, cars and sometimes helicopters, I am mobile and can quickly get to anywhere in the world. My mobility is therefore becoming more and more flexible and is still evolving.

Just 15 years ago, there was something that seems to be disappearing rapidly these days: periods of standstill. These are short periods of time during a planned day in which you can switch off and think.

- You drive a car and review the negotiations and important discussions of the last important event.

- You wait until the plane takes off and you have 30 minutes to yourself.

- You sit in a taxi and enjoy the view while being brought to the hotel.

This has changed significantly in the 21st century. These moments of reflection and being alone are being replaced by computers, mobile devices and smartphones in no time at all. Nowadays, people read their emails and listen to their voice messages while they wait for the plane to take off or allow them to get off.

Thanks to the combination of the rapid pace of mobility and the ability to access the Internet at any time, I am much more effective today than before. When I think of my company SOCAR, I can no longer imagine working without the Internet.

There is no doubt that we are all benefiting tremendously from this development and that our international business operations are becoming easier every day. But it also makes me lose those moments during the day that I need to recharge my battery. That's why I create my own time frames in which I can think, let my creativity run wild, or pursue a passion. So sometimes I sit in a nice old Viennese coffee house, drink coffee and talk. Or I sit down at the piano at Hotel Sacher and play classical pieces or Azerbaijani music for my friends. It is precisely at such moments that my mind gets going and provides me with creative ideas for the next challenge.

And that is exactly what I love so much about mobility.

Gulmirza Javadov (MBA, PhD)

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