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Hello, everyone, welcome to the Five Minutes podcast. I was not supposed to record a podcast this week, you know, with the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian troops. I felt that there was no environment for me to talk about different topics around Project Management. However, I changed my mind because my experience with the destruction created by war is really devastating. I work it for five years at the U.N. Of course, I'm not an expert at all in war, but I have some knowledge on what happens after the war is done and how to collect the debris and the bodies. You know, it's just devastating. And also, I have no perspective and no position on how these will unfold because I know many people come to me because of my experience in the humanitarian sector. Do they start asking me What will happen? What do you think will happen? I honestly, I have no idea. This can unfold into absolutely different things. And probably there are hundreds of extremely competent analysts that are trying to figure out what will be the next move. However, I want to share with you three things that if I were you, I would care about most if you are working with international teams. The first one is recognizing reality. Don't think that. Oh, because you are on this part of the planet, this has nothing to do with you. This has because the impact of this war is already there. And it's not only with the bombs in Ukraine, it's a whole belief system. It's a whole political order. It's the whole concept of what globalization really means and how international markets will move.
So those who are I don't even need to talk about the obvious sectors that will be impacted, like aviation, defence, financial markets, infrastructure, oil and gas. These will all be massively impacted. They are already being massively impacted because of the role that Russia plays and the magnitude of the conflict. And if you are, I would say, a software company that is working with outsourced companies, you may face the same because I know that, for example, Ukraine was a very strong hotspot for hiring developers and people in technology. I used to work a lot with Ukrainian people to help me to help the development of software and this. And if this is the case, then you are really, really facing a brutal new reality because these people probably have other priorities at this moment, compared with, you know, the next spring and the next delivery of the next sprint. The second one is to be empathetic with those who are suffering. For example, maybe you have a team in London, but one of the members of this team is from Ukraine. And you know, he or she may have relatives that are suffering from bombs in their heads. Or maybe you have a Russian employee that has nothing to do with this madness and that he or she is just trying to send money to his or her old parents in Russia, and it's all blocked. You know, there is no winning for the regular Russian or the Ukrainian. There is. It's just a lose-lose. So you need to be empathetic with that and support this. And this is my third. It's how you can support that.
And I'm not saying support, you know, Ukraine as a country. This is probably if you have the power, I would say, to support Ukrainian forces, then you are probably not a listener of this podcast, right? Because this podcast is not aiming to reach this public, you can support psychologically those who are suffering. I send messages in the past five-six days to all people that I know and that I do business in these two countries to express my support and my solidarity in a call for peace. And don't think that the Russians in the vast majority, want this war because they don't, and you need to support them through this very challenging period. And there is not a price that I would say the average Russian will face. It's this discrimination because now, you know, all the Russians became, I would say, evil, and there are many good Russian people that truly, truly think Ukrainians are brothers and sisters, and they were not supposed to. To be bombed, however, the decision that was out of their control and my control and anyone's control was different, and of course, they will pay this price for that. So you need to understand and be empathetic with that. Maybe in the upcoming weeks, I would record something, but for me, it's too early and I'm too sad to see this. It makes me remember awful things and record any specific. But next week, I will go back to the topics that we usually cover on the Five Minutes podcast.
Thank you very much and see you next week with another Five Minutes podcast.
