With the Chinese government sticking to Dynamic 0 Covid policies while being hard on businesses, these are hard days in China. Some Western Companies will have to pull back or slow down here. Others can still move forward, but must be smarter and make careful moves These are not the days to play China business […]
Continue Reading →Hostile Takeover Can Happen Recently, I helped a Western company where the Chinese General Manager declared the company was his. He required the owner to change over the ownership to give him 51%. The Chinese GM had the chops and the licenses and hired good guards, and the owner could not fire the GM or […]
Continue Reading →I saw an article saying hire slow and fire fast is bad advice. That caught my eye as we promote good thinking on hire slow and fire fast. However, digging in I saw even more to think about. The author is rightly peeved at all the delays companies put candidates through. It is shocking, and […]
Continue Reading →In the Chinese business storm, Western businesses have been hard pressed these years and especially in 2022. We all know that closed borders, lockdowns, Covid zero tolerance, China-Western political tension, logistics overload, government crackdowns and toughness on Western companies specifically have made both living in China and doing business here more troublesome. Having lived here […]
Continue Reading →Google wants you to get the best information for you because that helps you make good decisions, so they have a quote that I think we can learn from: Self management is facilitated by…inhouse debate driven by data rather than opinion. Easier said than done, so let’s think on this for a while. Google has […]
Continue Reading →In all the world, hiring who you like is common and also risky business, yet people do it all do it all the time. We work to take the risk out of that process. How about we unpack that? Hiring people we do not like is not the answer, but it does raise another issue. […]
Continue Reading →Mathew Stefan put up a nice graphic on something obvious, and yet it needs to be said. I do not know any leaders who would precisely agree here. What is leadership to you? Let me give some thought to get your thoughts going. Finding leaders who can bring a team together with passion and purpose […]
Continue Reading →Worldwide, people develop more and more doubts in leadership in this modern age. It is a leadership trust crisis. My friend, Kevin Williams, masterfully managed a US factory in Suzhou and then was CEO at the US headquarters in the US following that time. He says developing trust in leadership is critical. He linked to […]
Continue Reading →Your top hires in China have to do more then lead your business. These hires must bridge the culture gap. See what Jonathan Heeter says on LinkedIn. It doesn’t matter how good your product is if it’s not positioned to be culturally relevant. It also doesn’t matter how good your product is if your work […]
Continue Reading →Does anyone remember when Arthur Anderson consulting imploded when their consultants were videoed destroying the proof that they had helped Enron cooks its books? Did anyone believe that only Anderson consultants were crooked? Does anyone believe someone would be caught cheating to prove their ethics? Recent news is Ernst & Young got fined $100M for […]
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