In an exclusive interview with BUSINESS LIFE magazine, the Lebanese Deputy Alexandre Abraham Matossian digs into the line between business and politics, but the love and hate bit works too because to feel one or the other requires passion, and good business and good politics are often quite passionate.

In this cover interview, a BUSINESS LIFE reporter looks at what group dynamics are, and why they matter. He then discusses with the shrewd board members of Gezairi Group valuable information on the group’s dynamics, and thus the BUSINESS LIFE reporter outlines some tools that the young dedicated successors of Abdul Salam Bou-Azza Gezairi use in order to move forward this huge responsibility to new heights.

Jacques Ekmekji (JE) is a graduate of the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Civil Engineering class of 1971. Spent over 32 years with Khatib & Alami consulting Firm of Lebanon as partner in charge of several divisions and sister companies including the Geographic Information System (GIS) services division, which he headed from 1989 to December 31, 2003.

Architect Sarmad Shayboub, the legendary founder and chairman of The Constructors Co. built during his long and outstanding career many quality buildings and towers where he implemented the state of the art in architecture.