Modern business imposes strict requirements on owners and managers, on their knowledge and experience. The head of the organization needs to be well versed in the basics of management theory, to know the structure and features of the functioning of the organization he leads. There is a lot of literature revealing various theoretical approaches to managing processes, resources and personnel, but it usually covers foreign experience. Entrepreneurs and managers are forced to "try on" business management methodologies created in conditions absolutely not similar to those in which the economies of post-Soviet countries are located today.