“...Nikolai Konstantinovich liked deciding the fate of people. He saw results quite quickly and knew well the principles and features of today's promotion system. And successful businessmen needed people. Someone, on instructions from above, on someone’s whim, or for no reason at all, was quickly promoted or fired for no reason. Undoubtedly, the internal policy of the company was determined by a narrow circle of people, the characteristics of which Nikolai Konstantinovich studied creatively and without the slightest manifestation of romance, paying due attention to the character traits of “close” people. He valued the fact that much of the work of searching and updating personnel was placed in his hands, practically the only ones, and he confidently relied on his intuition...”