10 questions to German Gref from a Sberbank employee

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The head of Sberbank, German Gref, has earned a very specific reputation in Russian society in recent years. It has developed so “specific” because of his statements, sometimes not so much strange as insulting to those who love Russia and respect their people.

And because of the actions of German Gref as head of the country's largest bank.

Questions have piled up. One of the members of the Great Fatherland Party, Valentina E., had a question for German Oskarovich. At the same time, I would like to note that such questions have accumulated among millions of Russian citizens. However, Valentin E. works at Sberbank, so his questions are questions to the head of Sberbank from an employee of Sberbank. Which he is afraid to ask personally, quite rightly believing that, after this, he will lose his job.

I do not work in the structures of Sberbank and therefore I am happy to broadcast these questions to German Gref on my website. Trying to convey to the public the bewilderment that is on the lips of the majority of Sberbank employees, who have been working there for a long time and watching what and how is happening in it after the arrival of G. Gref.

Ten questions to German Gref

1. Why, when you came to Sberbank at the end of 2007, you invited specialists from the American Morgan Stanley Bank and McKinsey consulting company for the strategic management and reorganization of the Bank, although the latter's activities are very closed to the media and are very limited in some countries, for example, in China?

(Denis Bugrov worked on the Bank's Management Board from the beginning of 2008 to 2015, Anton Karamzin from the beginning of 2008 to 2015, Peter Kralich left the Supervisory Board in 2015, Elena Chupina currently oversees the Bank's strategy and personnel policy, etc.)

2. Why the top management of the Bank, despite the American sanctions, regularly visits the United States for training and consulting (in California, Palo Alto, San Francisco, etc., they study at Stanford University) and actively promote technologies at the Bank on manipulating people (the latest methodological guide from McKinsey, the book by F. Laloux "Discovering the organizations of the future")?

3. Why did you and your team shut down your own payment system of Sbercard Bank and have been actively promoting the Western payment systems Visa and MasterCard since 2008?

4. Why the organizational reforms and experiments you started in 2008 at the Bank continue to this day and have no end, and

Is it possible, in your opinion, to effectively and efficiently work for employees in conditions of constant reorganization and experimentation?

5. Why does the Bank slow down the issuance of bank cards of the domestic payment system "Mir" and actively continues to promote Western payment systems Visa and MasterCard in conditions when the owners of these payment systems can disconnect Russian customers from their plastic cards at any time?

6. Why does the Bank actively promote Apple products among its employees and customers under the sanctions and does not open its branches in the Russian Crimea? Isn't it possible to agree, because the initial investors for Apple and the initiators of the sanctions are located in the same country?

7. Why do you like the game Pokémon Go or, if you don’t like it, why did the Bank actively advertise it among its employees? Do your kids play this game?

8. As an active fan of the chief engineer of Google R. Kurzweil and his predictions about replacing living people with biorobots in the near future, would you like your children and grandchildren to become such biorobots with electronic chips in their heads to support the brain?

9. You have watched the Hollywood films Snowden and Supremacy, how do you assess the prospects that are being actively promoted by investors in silicon startups for manipulating people, and is it possible for digital experiments and work to create artificial intelligence to be controlled by the world community, for example, through the UN?