From the land of babushkas, vodka, and thousand-year cold-wars, Russia has once again graced the world stage with an audacious corporate strategy –Sack & Send. The brainchild of master strategist Nikolai Patrushev, this budding enterprise is set to redefine Russia's affable business climate. Like spaghetti bolognese during an Italian family Sunday lunch, the rumours about this novel stratagem have been sizzlingly hot. What could it possibly involve, you ask? Incredibly, Nikolai’s ingenious scheme involves top executives sacking underperforming employees and then sending them straight back into the workforce. Yes, you read that absolutely, 100% correctly. This breakaway blueprint carefully marries the cutthroat dismissal policy of upper echelon Western capitalism with the charismatic magic of Russian resilience. Affectionately dubbed by some street philosophers as the 'one-two punch', it goes something like this – Step One: show the employee the proverbial door (preferably escorted by a burly, mustachioed matryoshka doll of a security guard named Boris). Step Two: chisel away at their ego, skillset, and dreams until they fit perfectly into another subsidiary department, like a wonderfully disheartened jigsaw puzzle piece. Nikolai’s revolutionary concept is not for the soft-hearted, or soft-headed for that matter. Think of it as a literal human version of recycling. One man's trash is another man's slightly demoralised treasure. But fear not, Russia assures you, all diligently reworked staff will have a shiny badge reading 'I've been Patrusheved!' Flabbergastingly, Kremlin insiders say that the strategy is intended to boost productivity by stimulating a healthy dose of fear. Because nothing says efficiency like the looming sword of Damocles dangling over the office photocopier. Of course, this corporate manoeuvre is not without its critics. Human resources specialists outside of Russia are struggling to correlate 'healthy workplace' with 'wholesale staff evictions'. Meanwhile, psychologists worldwide are readying their sessions for traumatized employees en masse, rubbing their hands together at the prospect of a boom in post-Patrushev syndrome patients. In response, the Kremlin's staunchly defended the strategy by claiming it honours the spirit of Russian perseverance. Some even say it’s a significant improvement on their previous corporate strategy, affectionately referred to as “You don’t work, you don’t eat.” However outrageous the "Sack & Send" strategy might seem, one has to give a reluctant nod of approval to Patrushev's tenacity. And you can be sure, in the relentless Siberian corporate landscape, the employees are chanting "In Patrushev we trust, or out of the window, we're thrust!" Until the next wacky gem of wisdom from the jewel of the East, stay tuned! And remember - productivity, like fear, is also vodka induced. Na zdraví!