Archive for the ‘China Society’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
I’m now seeing up-close and personal the Chinese Staff Capabilities Gap I’d heard about two years ago: young Chinese hopping from job to job, title to title, salary increase upon increase in a few short years. Each company believes it is hiring next the super-duper-vice-president-of-you-name-it – despite “Joe Wang” being ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
I had the pleasure last week in Suzhou to speak to a group of undergraduate students from New York University Stern School of Business. I have to say it was a great pleasure. I had prepared myself for a group whose participants either fell asleep while I spoke or asked ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
China Success Stories was kind enough to acknowledge the trauma of my more recent China adventures by re-publishing a blog article I'd written a couple weeks ago. I'm grateful they accepted my stumbling response and convoluted rationalization to an unfortunate incident in the spirit of professional development to be shared ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
I missed the earthquake in Suzhou this past Monday afternoon. I was in Hangzhou at the time, dozing in the front row while one of the other speakers was going about the China BPO industry (it was mid-day, after all). A friend of mine was climbing a nearby mountain at ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
A British friend told me last week the only problem he has with the Chinese protests against the French supermarkets Carrefour and Auschan is the protests are erratic and sporadic. Reason is: the stores are empty during protests, making it just that much easier for him to shop without the ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
An American friend just back from Guangzhou told me how ridiculous security is becoming in a run-up to the Olympics, heavy-handed and inconsistently applied. He and his Chinese assistant/interpreter as well as a Chinese business associate had flown down from Suzhou to Guangzhou to attend the world-famous and very lucrative ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Paul Denlinger posted a an article on his blog this month about that gave me a perspective on the subprime mess I hadn't thought of before.
"So, while Chinese factories have on occasion exported defective products, the US has exported defective financial products. And the US government participated because Treasury ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
The British Director of a marketing firm in Shanghai shook his head when I asked him about human resource issues in the metropolis. He said, “Most of the staff in my office are women. From Shanghai. The men are absolute shite. Lazy, unfocused, but wanting more money and a title ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I recently spoke in Shanghai at an Executive MBA program. I had been invited to kick-off the week-long program for young American managers with a talk on China’s Culture, History, Economics and Business Environment (specifically for Western companies). EMBAs received the hour-and-a-half long talk well, adding at the end some ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
A friend building a factory in the deep interior of China recently called me with tragic news. One of his Chinese operators had been killed in the machine the worker was tending. It seemed it all happened within ten minutes: the victim’s work partner had gone off to get some ...
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