Archive for January, 2019
This is China. Have you ever heard this phrase from your China team? It is an altogether too often used phrase. I also think it often represents a pressure to leave a good path. When I first came to China, I often heard the phrase: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” It never […]
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I have said this before but see it needs saying again. The US has a voluntary tax reporting system. Even hand written receipts can be official receipts in the US. China does not. We need to think more to get enough character in China. If China used such a system, how much tax money would […]
Continue Reading →Today let’s talk about Old Candidates. I recently read a LinkedIn article by Louis Loizou that got me thinking. He indicated he is a 22 year old with 32 years of experience. He is 54. Companies have lots of reasons for not wanting a 54 year old. Let’s see if they make good sense. Companies […]
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Companies focus on getting great talent in China. That is reasonable. However, let’s think about what is beyond talent, and you need a lot. You need honesty, dependability, positive attitude, teachability, transparency, passion, ownership, initiative, inspiration, courage, wisdom, empathy, decisiveness, openness, and conflict capability to name a few. It is actually these unseen things that […]
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Foreign Affairs has an excellent article up that explains the China Political Model and why they are successful. China has been very successful in giving freedom to succeed to its people, and so they have succeeded in 40 years of fabulous growth. How they do it is different than in the West, so it is […]
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