Archive for February, 2014
Posted by Jim Nelson on February 24, 2014
Hiring the right people is doable even in China. Harvard Business Review has an article up describing why Netflix has been so successful from its early years. I pasted a little bit below here, and I recommend the whole article here Over the years we learned that if we asked people to rely on logic […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on February 17, 2014
Chinese People working in Western countries work hard and are often valuable employees. We should not think that makes them the right person to get you started in China. Great Chinese Staff in the West are often the wrong person when you put them back in China as a Chinese Returnee. Returnees can be good, […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on February 10, 2014
“Excellent colleagues trump everything else” This quote deserves more attention in this excellent HBR article on Netflix success. See the article here and the larger quote below. “One day I was talking with one of our best engineers, an employee I’ll call John. Before the layoffs, he’d managed three engineers, but now he was a one-man department […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on February 7, 2014
China Press Freedom is in the news, and I want to talk about it here. You can see what the White House recently said here. China has poor press freedoms, but is it because they hate freedom? See this chart of the world showing Press Freedom. China over the last 30 plus years has made greater […]
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