Seeing China for what it really is...
Most consultants and advisers you come across when you dabble in doing business in China will tell you to forget everything you know and not expect that China will be anything like doing business back home. Now there is a half truth that needs some explanation before one can say that this is a correct statement…
Seeing China for what it really is...
Last week I was forwarded an article (sales pitch actually) from a Singaporean consulting firm in Shanghai that makes a living providing “advise” to unsuspecting foreigners in China… The company shall remain anonymous, as I do not want to be sued for telling it as it is, but these guys are so full of it that it is hard to hold back.
They started by comparing “the cultivation of traditional guanxi” with pure corruption, and then went on to talk about how this is changing…