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traditional Chinese mask.
Old Beijing, Splendid China, Shenzhen
The pearl of wisdom in the title came from my Chinese neighbor in a conversation he and his wife had with my wife about a week ago. A Chinese man of about 65 years of age, he is a multi millionaire who made his money importing machinery from the US and UE into China over the last 20 years. He said, when asked about his experience, that the single most important lesson that he learned in int
Since I’ve been at factories and solving project issues all week, I’ve not had time to write a “real” blog–so here is another of my (usually) tri-weekly news links list. Enjoy.
1. China on President Elect Obama
This book, The Writing On the Wall, by Will Hutton, is just great. It’s only flaw is that it’s at least 100 pages too long—
First, the irony of people who bought pirated software complaining about the fact that it still works but is not as pretty anymore just kills me. If I buy DVD’s on the street, I don’t complain that they don’t work, I kiss my 5RMB goodbye and wait a couple of months till it comes out on iTunes. But everyone online in China is
Pierre Xiao Lu’s look into the luxury market in China is probably the best book on the topic you can buy.
Like Junior Soprano claims, “things like this come in 3’s.” Maybe it’s true.
I’m really trying to get past the 0lympics, but there were just so many good quotes and pieces that I’m still referring to some of them. But this post is about how attitude affects business, and only slightly related to the 0lympics.
So now that it’s all over, what’s next?
First a couple of comments on the 0lympics and then some application to doing business here.
I spent the weekend at the Olympics—hey, since I already had a visa, why not?! Here are some thoughts from that experience.
The number one topic in Beijing? Michael Phelps. Way to go, Michael.
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