Archive for July, 2012
All Roads Lead to China noted a Forbes article on the politics of being in China. The Article notes that there are more risks and more opportunities in China than in the West. China is growing and maturing while the West is a relatively static and mature market. The Article noted that China’s overall environment […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The AFP article I saw this morning at Yahoo! says both productivity and costs are up. Surely, both are true, but I want to pause and comment on how they mention that Adidas left China for some cheaper place. Making shoes is low end. They might do better in a poorer country. However those […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →It really depends on how you define humility. If humility is meant to be low self esteem, we could say it is bad for a leader to carry low self esteem. This would be a bad humility. However, if a leader is filled with himself and his importance, we know this is not the model […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Getting the right data is critical in any good decision as Six Sigma advocates like me will often point out. Sitting in the home office, how comfortable do you feel about the information you are getting? Do you feel comfortable as a leader in a China factory that you are getting the true and complete […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Over a year ago I did a post called Who Then What. I also land on this topic in other ways as it is so important and especially in China. Have you considered the transparency of how your team relates? Politics and positioning eat up time and the organization. One hire of a political player, and you […]
Continue Reading →Many times we treat suppliers as if they are expendable. A post from the Procurement Leaders may keep us from making that mistake. See the whole post here as it has very good thought. If a supplier goes out of business, the cost is actually very high and can stop production. However, suppliers who have […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is another piece from the China Daily. They reported on former Treasury Secretary Paulson’s thoughts on the Chinese economy and the relationship with the U.S. I will summarize some of what he said, but the whole article can be found here. Paulson indicated that China faces no short term hard landing but faces mid […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →My family loves Disney Hong Kong and is waiting expectantly on Disney Shanghai which is not due to open until the end of 2015. I attach a good story about the process of developing it here They mention in the article something that helps make Disney great. Every design in the Shanghai Disney Resort is […]
Continue Reading →Just read a great article over at China News Brief on the interior of China and JV’s. Take a look here. I only want to talk about one thing they mentioned though I liked the whole article. They mentioned in a couple different ways and finally used the word, expectations. Surely, in hiring, in customer […]
Continue Reading →I am a consultant who hates most training. Even very good training leaves me with little benefit three days later. Most of us recognize that facilitation is a stronger model, but it is rarely done, and we put up with time and money spent on something we and our people will not recall three days […]
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