I talked about how we do not feel we are wearing the black hat yesterday, and you can find that here. Leaders often justify themselves and one is that the others are not understanding them. Each of us has our own experiences and personality that impact us and make others judge us unfairly. However, ...
In most cases, the answer is you, for you are deceiving yourself. As people, none of us plans to be the bad guy. Others are the bad guy. We would change if we knew we were the bad guy. However, a lot of bad things happen in business as we all know. Most of the [...]...
Here are a few quotes from Fast Company Fewer than 3 in 10 workers admit to having their hearts in their jobs. This lack of employee engagement will cost business upwards of $300 billion this year alone. And their quote from Emerson which is part of the anti-dote. Trust men and they will be true [.....
I was talking to a senior Western business leader the other day, and he said that he is a free thinker who can always find a better way. So he always hires people who are action oriented. That way, something gets done while he tinkers with the future. All good leaders do this all the [...]...
Good people come to the right people. Being the right person is a good way to get the right people. If you are complicated, then complicated people will tend to come to you. If you are straight forward, then straight forward people will want to work for you. Tricky people also want to manipulate sim...
I really like the Harvard Business Review, but surprisingly I want to take issue with one statement in an otherwise good post on 5 Self-Defeating Behaviors. See the whole thing here. See the start of her number 1 pasted here. Getting angry Anger and blame are unproductive emotions…. Admitt...
Chinese emphasis on friendship can be shown by how many famous sayings they know about friendship. How many do you know from your own culture? We know that friendship can be used for good or bad, and in China we have seen both. However, the connectedness of Chinese people with friends and their de...
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American compatriots! Most of us in China can get to some or all of a turkey in China these days while not so many years back and still in the outback, turkey was hard to come by. As a 360° leader who can lead up and down, thankfulness all around is [...]...
On a day where Election results are coming in in America, tears come to my eyes to see people voting with their kids and waiting hours in line to make their vote. May we love the other guy even if he did not vote the way we did. Freedom has two sides we can consider [...]...
I want to tell you a real though altered story to give some perspective. An American company in Beijing had a company with a contract to sell automation equipment to a Chinese company in Ningbo. The Ningbo company had placed a large down payment. The Americans were behind on delivery and then tried ...
