“In this business, you need to have fun,” says Samir Brikho, AMEC’s ebullient CEO. “If you don’t have fun, you don’t go to work.”
Coming from someone who starts his day at 5.30 a.m. by checking out news updates in four or five languages while he is showering and having breakfast, such a notion might seem relative. But Brikho, an energetic 54-year-old who enjoys skiing, sailing and golf as well as music and dancing, is deeply serious, and not just about fun.
Simultaneously, he launched a cost-cutting programme which included moving the company’s London headquarters to a less expensive location on the northern edge of the City, London’s business district, and a review of the whole range of the company’s activities.
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