My upcoming public lecture “Nasreddin Afandi (Khodja Nasreddin) and Strategic Thinking.”

Scholar–practitioner, author, educator, and former ambassador
My upcoming public lecture “Nasreddin Afandi (Khodja Nasreddin) and Strategic Thinking.”

Conducted two training workshops (“Teamwork and Leadership Skills” and “Effective Negotiation”) at the Uzbek-Japan Innovation Center of Youth in Tashkent. It’s nice to receive such a good feedback:



Please find attached my photos.
Just published my conversation with Dr. Sherzod Muminov, an Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia. We talked about history, research, teaching, language, AI and other interesting topics:
It’s never too late if it’s not too late.

More and more specialists now consider it more important not the number of years lived (#longevity), but the number of years lived in good health. However, most ordinary people had understood this long before scientists.

When I am in foreign universities, I try to visit fencing clubs and fence. It is gratifying that #fencing is becoming more and more popular in many #universities around the world.
In the photo: a few years ago I was at the McGill University Fencing Club in Montreal, Canada.

Writing, reading, conducting training and sports are traditionally my favorite activities. Recently, another one has appeared: running a YouTube channel(s).


Strategic thinking means thinking big (big-picture thinking). It requires thinking wider, thinking further, and thinking deeper.
Стратегическое мышление – это мышление масштабное. Оно требует мыслить шире, мыслить дальше и мыслить глубже.