Archive for April, 2011
So simple yet often not done. Everyone agrees that we need to understand first, but it often does not get done in China. In Bloomington, it might take me X time to understand.. In China it often takes 2X or even 20X. We should not forget that understanding must come first. I am not […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Developing in any business relationship is smart. Firing workers who are not on the same page with us is necessary. What I see is that many leaders also have a 3rd category. They use workers and vendors. Let us make a firm commitment not to use anyone. We will not use workers or vendors. If […]
Continue Reading →Lets talk transparency in hiring. In China, I know a business where a production manager physically intimidated a quality manager. Workers had to restrain the production manager from hitting the quality manager in a meeting. The Western leader never knew this happened. We need to have businesses where information like this moves to the right […]
Continue Reading →Today, a guest post. Paul Howes over at Purple Emperor Consulting writes on similar issues that we do here, but does it with a different style. So I asked him to do a guest post in the area of engagement and what he offered is below. Take a look at his website here. Things have […]
Continue Reading →Company atmosphere should be blue skies with white clouds. It discourages me that some companies put up with their company being “that way”. What they mean is that China is inscrutable and so are the workings of their China holdings. They get production, but China gets blamed for performance gaps. Sometimes companies get hurt because […]
Continue Reading →I know a company in China that unconsciously destroyed worker passion. The GM made a big presentation that he had gotten from the US HQ. It showed in detail how much they hoped to sell and that they would be a $100M company in 5 years. Ugh. A week after the event I asked some […]
Continue Reading →Companies like to talk on measurables and deliverables, and so talk on company culture often gets pushed aside. However, one of my first clients here in China was Adobe, as they know that the unmeasurables are more valuable than any might think. I think that is why they are soon to be a Fortune 500 […]
Continue Reading →I mentioned that making workers happy is a good goal in the blog on protecting your IP. I want to discuss what I see makes workers happy and also get what you think. An old boss of mine once said to me, “Jim, doesn’t it make you happy to give workers a job?” I changed […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →As a follow up to my last post on protecting your IP, I want to talk about firing people. If we feel we need to oversee someone constantly, then letting them go is best at any cost.If we feel what a worker tells us is not always the truth, then it is time to find […]
Continue Reading →China IP is not centrally lost by the internet in China. Dan Harris at China Law Blog makes a good point, and I want to follow up on it here. However, I encourage you to go look at what he says over there. He notes that if you always have something new that your customers want […]
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