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 [...]

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 [...]

First a caveat … emerging markets is a catch-all phrase to describe developing countries.  It was coined by Antoine van Agtmael in the early 1980’s to replace the more negative term “third world country.”   It is supposed to designate those countries in a transitional phase between developing and developed status.
But here’s the rub … China [...]