Getting the right person for your China leadership team is critical to your success in China. Excellent Executive Search China should not be a roll of the dice. Excellent Executive Search China Needs a Lot Your recruiter needs to: 1.Take time to get to know what you really need The right recruiter asks very good […]
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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. I am not saying that businesses do not need rules. Bigger businesses will tend to need […]
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Most companies are careful to use data, but if you look closely, gut feeling dominates in China recruitment. 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 measure will be influenced by your gut feel. So you would […]
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Attracting Top Talent is a complex process with many parts and factors. Lets take a look. 1. Manage the Company Well to Give it a Future It is hard to get top talent if you do not have top talent who manage the company well. People like to work for a winner. Assuming you […]
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China is an amazing land that has grown from poverty when I arrived in 1991 to being a powerhouse with 15% of the GDP of the world within its borders. I wanted to share a link to an article I published in Ticker a few years ago. If you go there, you can find a lot […]
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In a perfect world, recruitment helps companies find and understand candidates and helps candidates understand companies. Each is transparent with the other and both can accept that there are no perfect hires and no perfect companies. Whether you hire in house or outsource, this would be the ideal. In this world, placements do what you […]
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So having your managers and people work from home has been a fad. Early adopters, Apple and IBM, are giving up on telecommuting, so what should we think about its future? An article on what do you miss if you work at home caught my eye. I admit I have never thought it was a good […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →If you make a middle market acquisition, your goal may be to avoid post signing surprises, but Feldman and Kraemer say surprises should be expected. Let’s think about that more. They say: “Acquirers should temper their optimism that the target’s management will be just fine. Planning for more changes, perhaps many more changes, in the […]
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In a huge and well documented article on Private Equity in Wikipedia, the very last topic with just one sentence says the following: Cognitive bias Private equity decision-making has been shown to suffer from cognitive biases such as illusion of control and overconfidence. Lets look at how to counteract that instead of burying and ignoring that. Private […]
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Shanghai is amazing. A city of 24 Million with no ghettos. Imagine that. Many of you reading this will have been to or are in Shanghai as it is such a dynamic place. It is the world’s 8th largest urban area. It also has some of the world’s most expensive housing. 24 Million live in […]
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