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Keep reading. Keep networking. Yes, those will help. However, you get agility in China when the people you hire have a sense of ownership for what you are doing. When everyone cares for the business like they are the owner, then you can have agility because you will get more information and be able to […]
Continue Reading →I recall some over positive resume tendencies when I was young, but falsifying applications was not part of my cultural background. It has never been well in China. When I got a job leading a US$1M start up in 1997, I thought a long time before I could think of someone trustworthy among hundreds of Chinese people […]
Continue Reading →Doing M&A in China takes all the thinking you can muster. Everyone does legal and financial due diligence. Too few do HR due diligence. Further, their thinking from and on HR after the purchase will not make most companies nearly as successful as they should be. Doing M&A in China is a huge HR challenge. […]
Continue Reading →China Business Leadership example continued. See part 2 or part 1 as needed. The ops manager realized that if I did this whole thing without him, then he would look bad. He also saw he could not stop me. He produced a 150 item list of issues with the project on an excel file. Many […]
Continue Reading →Part 1 is here if you have not seen it. I compiled the list and came up with 150 items between us and producing that engine part. I allied with the MIS manager and got Microsoft Project installed on every managers’ machine. I found out the translator for the GM had spare time. She inputted […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Chinese satisfaction with their work is up ….. from 2% to 6%. Oh My. Gallup is great. See them here. Their chart shows what I see in most Western invested companies in China with a twist. First, this is pathetic and Leaders in China both Chinese and Western think they are doing good. The situation […]
Continue Reading →Most business leaders want to have more sales. Training sales teams is one thing we do for customers. Improving marketing is another slightly deeper path. However, at many companies, focus on any given sales function may not lead to significant benefit. A deeper look is needed. All sectors of the company should be touched to […]
Continue Reading →There is a slightly awkward acronym that helps me think about change process, (ADKAR). Read here to get the read from The Change Management Learning Center who developed the model. Let me explain it here. The sequence is important. A – Awareness (my company is going to implement ERP) D – Desire (this is useful […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I found this quote at a blog post about Who is your Customer? by Richard St Rose. Good post and worth checking out. Albert Einstein put it best when he said, “You can’t solve current problems with current thinking; current problems are the result of current thinking.” It is so true that we as leaders […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I like project management. The combination of people issues and organization get me going. I heard a webinar at HBR recently on project management for profit. Joe Knight presented and his first comment was ” Finance and accounting is art and not science.” The finance numbers are so comvincing and their use of Excel […]
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