We have been increasing the number of business related lessons we publish in response to popular demand. In fact, we have found that “doing business” is one of the primary reasons people decide to learn Chinese. This makes sense when you think about the amount of economic activity that involves China these days. Hardly […]
Archive for the 'Doing Business in China' Category
What exactly is Business Chinese?
Published by November 9th, 2006 in Uncategorized, About ChinesePod and Doing Business in China. 21 CommentsHow Google conduct meetings
Published by September 30th, 2006 in Doing Business in China. 4 CommentsThere are some insights here into how to maximize meetings. Warning: it includes a huge clock on the wall that counts down the minutes. Phew!
I can’t imagine how Chinese staff would react to this. There’s a long tradition of the meeting as a social event that came from the communist period. When I came […]
Seriously important insights
Published by September 4th, 2006 in Doing Business in China. 2 CommentsMisinterpreted Foreign Business Gestures
When working at a foreign business, it’s important to learn the customs and body language of your new associates. Here are the most commonly misinterpreted gestures in other cultures, and what they mean:
Read on.
Ken Carroll
Off topic Youtube video of the day
Published by August 19th, 2006 in Doing Business in China and Community. 12 CommentsNothing to do with learning Chinese, but it’s good.
Ken Carroll
Today’s lesson concerns business, and so I have some some business related items to share with you.
The first one is this businessweek podcast. In it, Jack Welch talks about deciding whether or not to go invest in business in China. (He also talks aboput a non-China issue - the role of candour in […]
Here’s a useful little summary of the move towards privatization in China:
Drastic privatization of Chinese companies
The Chinese private sector expanded 50% between 2001 and 2004 when the number of private companies reached 1.9 million according to a release this week from the Chinese Statistics Office.
This confirms the drastic expansion of the sector. The […]
Succeeding in China - It’s All About the Culture
Published by October 9th, 2005 in Doing Business in China. 2 CommentsHere’s a good essay on doing business in China. It’s from the invaluable CBIZ.
Some quotes:
…the Chinese penchant for bureaucratic administration and methods, all thoroughly contradictory - a mountain of office paperwork yet no formal procedures and that intractable desire to avoid “mistakes” and blame. These factors pose major challenges for foreign companies in China. […]
Two friends of mine, Simon Stokes, and Andrew Hupert, have written some very useful articles on doing business in China. I highly recommend their website, China Solved. Here is an excerpt from an essay called “Tips on Negotiating Schedules.”
Dates mean nothing. Schedules mean nothing
Maybe at the start of your discussion the other […]
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