Archive for Being the Right Person
I recently read a book called Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. The author, Sherry Tuckle, notes that it undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity. China is not immune. Can we get better Chinese hire productivity in this era? A first loss is conversation ability. Conversation is valuable as it builds […]
Continue Reading →Character and Personality are important and very different. Character is related to our integrity, loyalty, and even our humility. We are not born with good character. We are born very selfish and able to lie from the very start. Character and Personality- Are We Born With Character? When my first child was a baby, she […]
Continue Reading →Engagement or performance are two often very different kinds of pursuits in most people’s minds. Gallup notes from the research, and I so agree that this must not be an either/or task. They see that great leaders do both. Great leaders do not just make it a fun place to work or a focused diligent place […]
Continue Reading →Engagement and Recruiting go hand in hand. Have you heard? You can choose the right people to fire, or the people you need the most self select off your team. I think this will be an even hotter problem in the US market as the economy continues to heat up. China used to be a […]
Continue Reading →Emotional Intelligence versus Emotional Maturity, what do you need? Your China Candidates are working somewhere else now, and you hope they are learning something that will help you. If you have one who worked for a Fortune 500 company, might they have learned highly professional skills and behavior? Professional behavior could mean they are now […]
Continue Reading →How good is our Chinese Hiring Process? Because we are recruiters, We know Chinese managers and salesmen leave Western Companies for private Chinese companies . My GM, Paul Wang, mentioned this to me a while back and just a few minutes thinking about it proves the point. Many candidates do not want to leave their […]
Continue Reading →Do Executive Recruitment China right. That is our topic today. We do a lot of that, so have some thought. Doing Executive Recruitment China Right Made Harder We are presently helping one client who sought us out pretty late. His company has been in a tailspin in China for some time and needs an emergency […]
Continue Reading →True leadership humility is hard to come by and of great value. American Business Magazine has an article up with the following quote: “The will to submit to correction is usually either there or not. Either the person tends to exhibit some signs of megalomania and general rebellion against other authorities, or that leader is one with some […]
Continue Reading →“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 […]
Continue Reading →Nelson Mandela is a great man. He has passed away, but may his dream live on and grow. His resume is also a lesson to all of us. What were his qualifications to be President of South Africa? Progressive experience in consistently higher levels of authority? President Mandela’s resume said 27 years mining lime in […]
Continue Reading →Recruiting Talent With Character
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