If you haven’t read Outliers, or Malcom Gladwell’s previous books The Tipping Point and Blink, you are missing out on some of the most insightful, entertaining, and mind-opening dissections of human behavior. In Outliers, Gladwell explains what makes a person extraordinarily successful.
Here is the Cliffs Note version:
You need a minimum level of smarts, but not [...]
Fareed Zakaria has been a favorite of mine for years. Editor of Newseek International since 2000, he seems to blast through media bias and provides an unusually independent and insightful interpretation of foreign policy and events.
He wrote a great assessment of America’s future position in the world in The Post-American World, and has a Sunday show called [...]
… that China GDP grew 7.9% in the 2nd quarter of 2009 vs the previous year, and grew a staggering 16.5% compared to the previous quarter. Car sales rose by 48% and home purchases increased by 80%. The Economist argues that this is due to both the government’s economic stimulus program as well as belt [...]
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 [...]
A little while ago I wrote an article on “10 things you must do to win in emerging markets.” China is still considered an emerging market for technology products, given that the majority of the people still live and work in areas outside the reach of technology (mobile phones being, or at least becoming, the [...]
