Popular media often portray company culture as the one-size-fit-all creator of competitive edge, the force behind huge success of many companies.
Job seekers nowaday even look for job based on whether they like the company’s culture. Companies play along by tooting their culture.
Consultants charge a hand and a leg to help companies define, align and execute […]
Archive for June, 2006
Consistency build Company Culture
Published June 28th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Day to Day. 1 CommentI am reading blog too much. Got to stop, this is the last one.
It is always nice finding fellow entrepreneur talking about their journey. More so when the person is your countryman, one in which you can relate so much of what was written.
Upon reading Am I successful I smiled. All too familiar. Depleted bank […]
You don’t want to tell customer to get lost
Published June 20th, 2006 in Entrepreneur and Online. 1 CommentTrust me.
I was reading Cobalt Paladin’s Corporate Junk. It is on blogspot which is blocked in China and I couldn’t reply. (Actually I didn’t want to sign in over the proxy.) So I’m posting a reply here.
The incident is typical, all in the day job as an entrepreneur. What I want to comment […]
Revenue Lost from Piracy Overrated?
Published June 19th, 2006 in Business Models and China. 1 CommentArn’t you tired of such headlines already?
China piracy costs film industry $2.7 bln in 2005
You could easily change “film” to “software” or anything that the Chinese copies - furniture, apparel, shoes, bags…
Without revealing how the figures are arrived at, one can only read such report as propaganda at best.
Sure, I brought bootleg videos along […]
Focus on recuitment and people
Published June 16th, 2006 in Entrepreneur, Startup and China. 0 CommentsBrowsing through ChinaTechNews’s story on Sam Flemming, this particular comment caught my attention.
For anybody else looking to open a technology-related business in China, what sort of advice would you have for them?
Focus on recruitment and people. There is significant competition for a limited pool of experienced, educated professionals.
Well, Sam hit it squarely on the head. […]
Another dinner, another thing to talk about.
Last night, a Malaysian friend invited me for dinner. He said he had another friend with him whom he like to introduce. We had steamboat (again!).
At the door he told me that this person might be a potential investor.
I was unprepared.
About a week before, I just spoke to him […]
Last evening I met my former boss for dinner. His responsibility had increased tremendously since we last worked together. He is now taking care of technology for international sites outside of US. Naturally, China is one of the focal point.
We chatted the usual. From business to online ideas, friends and former colleagues, life here and […]
Since catching up on this blog I just gave Millionaire in Training a visit. It had been a while and good to see that he is still maintaining the blog.
The post Point of No Return really strike a chord with me and I presume with many entrepreneurs.
I have similar fear and doubts. Sometime when I […]
We (me and my business partner) went to visit a supplier in the outskirt of Fengxian district (奉贤区).
This supplier had been with us for a while and we have had a good working relationship. He just moved to a new factory and we wanted to give him a visit.
In typical Chinese fashion, he led us […]
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