Archive for September, 2017
Posted by Jim Nelson on September 26, 2017
I like Jim Collin’s books to include How the Mighty Fall. In that book, he recounts that there may be only one best way to succeed, but there are countless ways to fail. We have a new look on that for doing business in China. Some companies are very successful in the West, but struggle […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on September 23, 2017
Trust is earned shortened to Earned Trust is a phrase I learned from my West Point Classmate, Mark Parrish. West Point was certainly a place that emphasized character. My business was founded on the premise that Westerners in China tended to give trust until it was violated. Giving trust is common in the American culture […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on September 19, 2017
I saw a Quote that made me think of gut feel recruiting versus the facts even though the article is about science. But the scientific community is nervous. Science – and specifically the scientific method – is at risk in an era of fake news, anti-expert feeling, and science denialism. Healthy scepticism is at the […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on September 12, 2017
China bad hire costs cannot always be fully calculated. Good hire benefits have the same issues. Some people at Career Builder put together some numbers some years ago indicating a bad hire costs more than 300,000 RMB in China. I think we all can nod our head and say, “Yes, more than 300,000.” It is […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on September 5, 2017
My team likes to buy things that are good quality. We also like to do Top Quality China Recruiting. It feels good consistently providing candidates that are just what the customer needs. We believe that the customer needs to be able to sleep well at night, and we want to too. Let me explain. If […]
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