Archive for Trustworthy Focus
Posted by Jim Nelson on September 20, 2022
Is a good measure trust or information dependability? Let’s sees what the Asia Network Group’s Professor Warwick Powell says. Importantly our main point is that most supply chains in complex social divisions of labour rely not so much on “trust” as an interpersonal fluid notion, but on information dependability. This hits the topic right in […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on January 19, 2021
A while back we had a purchasing director candidate for a Western company. For us it was a standard reference check, but it had that result that always makes us shake our head. You see the reference loved candidate, and that is where it got interesting. You see we always find real candidate data. The […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on September 22, 2020
We need to think how character is a choice while many other thngs are not. Remarkable quote here from my fellow West Pointer, Pete Kilner. We judge others (and ourselves) based on their character precisely because character is a choice. No one is responsible for the circumstances of their birth (e.g., genetics & social circumstances), but […]
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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 August 9, 2017
I like the China Briefing, and they have a good article up on internal control. However, I want to say a word about how a spot on China Headhunter might lesson your need to make the business uncomfortably rule-bound. You might need Rules Rules or China Headhunter. I am not saying that businesses do not […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on August 2, 2017
Most companies are careful to use data, but if you look closely, strong feeling decisions dominate in China recruitment. Find a way for China Recruitment success to be consistent. Do you fill out a form when you interview? That will not save you. How you fill out the form or even put in numbers to […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on April 25, 2017
Hiring Fast, Hiring Slow. Which way is it for you? Which way is best? Brian Schwartz at Fast Company said he tried to hire fast in an important time at his company, and it did not go well. His lesson learned is to hire slow. To that I say yes and no. Hire Fast, Hire […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on January 18, 2017
I have known Kent Kedl for a number of years and like his China business thinking. I ran across a video of his that China Business Review put up in December and wanted to write on it. He talked about 5 challenges in China including reducing complexity in China. Listen, for 6 minutes well spent. […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on November 11, 2016
I have been writing about bad management for quite a few weeks now as it is so prevalent. A few weeks ago I wrote about kiss up kick down managers and be sure this article is another installment on that theme. Tyranny of the manager occurs because these manager know how to get upper management […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on August 15, 2016
hear doubt research believe Westerners often say they trust until they have reason not too. We Americans give trust at the outset which is a kind of admirable trait. It also means that politics is too high in US companies, and it is even worse in US companies in China. SHI Group chooses to first doubt, […]
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