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Perspective of a Chinese Manager Chinese people are trained to be politicians from a very young age. This means we are good at saying things other people like to hear, not straightforward from our hearts. We secretly get what benefits us best. what would that say about Chinese Managers? I personally believe there were many […]
Continue Reading →HR first and business leader second. is an important problem to think through in China In the West, HR has been trying to get a seat at the business table for a generation. Before that, there were no CHRO’s and no VP’s of HR. Still, not many companies have a CHRO. HR’s in the West […]
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Paul Wang is my General Manager, and one day we were talking about business culture and problems therein. Paul said, “Jim, Chinese people are all trained politicians.” I was shocked by what he said. I felt there was often a lack of transparency in Chinese people, but I never had put that together in that way. […]
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