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
29 Jul 2011 Business China Culture Getting to "I Don't Know" Beyond doing things correctly (correct materials, correct standards, correct processing, correct completed product) when working with suppliers I really only have three other expectations. 1.