Disruptive Leadership

This is an ongoing discussion on the 10 guiding principles of starting a new business in China (or re-starting your business if the case may be).  Here we explore the first principle:
Develop a comprehensive government relations program for both the Chinese and U.S. governments.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have embraced capitalism and open [...]

I have been on the road the last two weeks, traveling to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Singapore, Malaysia, and London. I’ve been in eight airports and slept in four hotels—a typical trip for me…something I’ve done 100’s of times. But several things made this trip “feel” different from other trips.
Emptiness
The [...]

In a recent article in Reuter’s, Michael Dell talked about increasing growth in emerging markets by bypassing their typical phone/web direct-model and selling PC’s in retail stores (dubbed dell.com@retail).
I was talking to Dell’s Asia executives in China last year about job opportunities (this was before Michael Dell returned as CEO).  I brought up the challenges [...]

This is a reposting of an article I wrote last week for NextBillion.net.  NextBillion is a site that “brings together business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.” While a few of the ideas are covered in the About section of this blog, I wanted [...]