Archive for Chinese Culture
A well known researcher, Yi Zhongtian ( 易中天) , in the Chinese government has a well known talk on Youtube where he lements the decline of Chinese ethics. He indicates that China has no Chinese ethical base, and so cannot hold the line on ethics. Here is the English translation. He compares 3 great civilizations. […]
Continue Reading →Politicians and leaders feel the need to bring optimism to their organizations. Many books are written and power generally goes to the optimists. However, COVID-19 is the triumph of the pessimists. Everyone who has taken the microphone and announced a bright future has been humiliated or shouted down. The initial outbreak cover up in China […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Since the end of January, China has been focused on killing off COVID-19. Shocking to see 1.4 Billion Chinese people in lock step to kill off the pandemic at its source. Let’s talk about the economic and cultural impacts. Economically. the effects have been devastating. China did roughly 50 days of social distancing and various […]
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China 5000 years different indeed. No one denies that, but many times companies come to China and do not know what those differences entail. Before I started my own company, I worked for a company that helped US companies start factories in China. We had a matrix of many factors in helping the customer decide […]
Continue Reading →I want to discuss more aspects of a great company in China. Last week, I wrote on getting trainable workers who will be learning at all times. That is one big step. Values are another important topic. If my top 3 values are 1. make money any way 2. put friends before work always 3. […]
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Brooking put up a great study on Chinese urbanization that we should consider. The Chinese government loves that a famous Western economist said there are two big forces for global prosperity in this century. US technical innovation Chinese Urbanization So why is this a big thing? What does it have to do with doing business in […]
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We have tested a thousand or more candidates using a scale to show if they are in or out of the box thinkers. Results are that not one out of a hundred are out of the box. Chinese creativity seems less that 1%. Further most people test extroverted observant hard thinking rule bound types. Are […]
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Confucianism, Daoism and hiring someone in China are not usually topics to put together. However, knowing the cultural backdrop for hiring in China is certainly valuable. Let’s look together and consider. The other Confucianist, Daoist countries after China are Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Vietnam. They all have their own flavor, but […]
Continue Reading →Our standard English writing base comes from Shakespeare and the King James Bible. Chinese written language started to standardize due to Journey to the West, Dream of Red Chamber, Romance of Three Kingdoms and Water Margins. These works in China and America helped to standardize our common written languages as they were so fabulously popular. Journey […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →LinkedIn is a great company that I highly respect, but I would never counsel anyone to follow their best China business advice on hiring in China which you can see here. Digging deeper in recruiting is necessary. Here is one quote that appears wise but has gotten many companies in deep water. The best chance at […]
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