This an interesting article I found online regarding the Chinese, Chinese culture and business in China.
With more and more business trying to get into the China market, understand the people and culture becomes an important subject of discourse.
When even a Chinese myself finds it difficult to understand the mainland Chinese people, it is not a surprise that Westerners finds it a puzzle.
The following quotes from the article are fruit for some thoughts…
… your own staff underperforms in the Chinese environment with a probability exceeding seventy percent
… will the biggest planet China orbit around capitalism or capitalism orbit around China?
It seems that all the time the Chinese operate as if they were living in the Brave New World. Parallel scenarios are being scanned to a very stretched extend and they play an important role in selecting the best options. In fact the Chinese language itself is at the root of this behaviour.
Read on…
Continue reading ‘China calling:’
Paul Graham, from The Power of the Marginal:
“Rising up through the hierarchy of the average big company demands an attention to politics few thoughtful people could spare… I think that’s one reason big companies are so often blindsided by startups. People at big companies don’t realize the extent to which they live in an environment that is one large, ongoing test for the wrong qualities.â€
(via Juice Analytics Be careful what test you are acing)
Published on
6 October, 2005 in
Quotes.
The life that conquers is the life that moves with
a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those
who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense
importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - WJ Davison
Very nice quote from a friend’s email. Search result attributes it to W.J. Davison but I was not able to uncover more about this person.
Any ideas about who this person is?
Published on
5 October, 2005 in
Quotes.
Fear is a stronger motivator than greed.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
When on this topic, I think the portfolio theory of investment applies to knowledge investment as well. My current current problem is getting the portfolio mix right. As one can see from the blog topics, I suffers from spreading my capital too thin. Jack-of-all-trades I am, master of some I aimed to be.
Much of a software product’s life is spent in specification, design and maintenance, and not in programming.
Can’t remember where I saw this but I was reminded of it again when recently a bad design backfired. One of the clients decided to do things fast by cutting back on design time. I’m not sure the time and money now they have to spend is worth the time they imagined would had been saved.
Published on
18 August, 2005 in
Quotes.
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler
Going through such a stage now having to learn, unlearn, relearn.
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