16 Sep 2011 Business China Culture 7 Days in China-years can seem like a lifetime. Some weeks are better than others. Some are just down right awful. This last week was one of those weeks, where everything goes wrong.1.
01 Sep 2011 Business China Culture Sometimes Contracts are Not Enough Sometimes contracts just don’t work. Sometimes you not only don’t get what you ordered but you’re left with no viable options for
26 Aug 2011 Business China Culture Endangered Species: Chinese Middle Managers I’ve been telling people for years that China doesn’t have enough mid-level managers. Most factories have the one or two guys that
10 Aug 2011 Business China Culture It's just a little bit more, they can afford it, right? A couple months ago I ran across a very interesting piece about working with suppliers. The story was that suppliers are no longer willing to
04 Aug 2011 Business China Culture Corruption and the Price of Coffee in China I had a very interesting lunch last week with some foreign (overseas-Chinese) investors, the manager of one retail location of a int’l coffee