Archive for Motivating Workers
Management Training in China is an important topic that needs more thinking and perhaps more money. Let’s talk about who to train and then four basic paths. Companies do training to improve the behavior and even attitude of their management. Problem is companies often do not know enough to enter in. Each training attendee has […]
Continue Reading →I want to write on how an Open Door Policy can kill your company in China or anywhere. Very few people in the West take advantage of the open door policy. but be sure even fewer in China. Chinese people are taught from childhood to keep their heads down. Just open door? You need a […]
Continue Reading →Great leaders are certainly made and not born as my Alma Mater knows. However, sometimes great leaders still fail after learning much. Are we doomed to a fatal flaw? In our company situation, great leaders are discovered and recruited for our Western customers. Experiences in their lives and choices they made led them to be […]
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 →I know a Western stock held company in North China whose Western GM told me he has three World Class Employees who can get work anywhere in the world. Picture of a World Class Employee? His HR Manager is one he names. For the last 8 years she has worked with impressive professionalism. In the […]
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 Family problems influence hiring deeply due to the background Chinese people are coming from. I think we need to think about that more when interviewing and hiring and coaching Chinese people. I read an article entitled Everyone Hurts that inspired me to write this post. Here is one quote from within. Will Smith said, […]
Continue Reading →Wanted to give you a little more thought on China Engagement. Ran across an informative and useful article at Boston Consulting Group. China Engagement for Employees is More Important Now Economic growth and the eager new players have run up against a substantial challenge in China: talent is increasingly difficult to find and keep, and […]
Continue Reading →Comparison of China and the United States can always show vast differences. This tool I introduce today is no different and very insightful. I want to note the Geert-Hofstede country comparison tool. They are interesting to take a look at. I want to note power distance and individualism in respect to the US and China. Power […]
Continue Reading →Though Luckin Coffee is losing money every month to try to undercut Starbucks on price, Starbucks China is still an amazing foreign retail success story, and I see two reasons. 1. They adapted to China and Chinese tastes. 2. They maintained their core values. One of their values is to be a good place to […]
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