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Capitolo uno della Cina

22 novembre 2007 dalle storia di successo di affari della Cina

Da Ernie Tadla

Prospettiva cineseChe cosa è accaduto me mentre stavo scrivendo questo libro.

“L'OH, est è orientale e l'ovest è ad ovest,
e il twain non verrà a contatto di mai,
Finchè la terra ed il cielo si levano in piedi attualmente a
Sede grande di giudizio del dio;
Ma ci è nè est nè ad ovest,
bordo, né razza, né nascita,
Quando due uomini forti si levano in piedi faccia a faccia,
benchè vengano dalle estremità della terra!„
Rudyard Kipling, 1889

Quando sono andato in Cina, ho avuto una vista negativa e self-righteous di tutte le cose cinesi. Era un dictatorship communistic e godless. , D'altra parte, eravamo una società capitalistic, democratica, cristiana.

Così dopo sette anni, frustrazione, dolore seguito da alcune conversazioni interne serie, ho cambiato il mio paradigma e che mi sono permesso che scoprisse molte cose positive circa il senso cinese.

Ho rinviato nel Canada ed ho scritto questo libro dalla mia prospettiva cinese fresca e nuova. Il mio redattore, Ross Freake, portato alla mia attenzione che ora stavo colpendo il senso occidentale poichè più presto avevo colpito il senso cinese. Ero stato infettato con la sindrome de Stoccolma. Ora state leggendo una revisione completa con un cambiamento nell'atteggiamento e nel paradigma, ma non di nuovo a che cosa era prima; non ci sarebbe aumento di quello.

Con lo synchronicity, ho ricevuto un epiphany importante.

È il concetto di integrazione del intero-cervello.

Segue le differenze fra i due emisferi del cervello.

L'emisfero di sinistra Il giusto emisfero
usa la logica/motivo usa l'intuizione/emozioni
pensa nelle parole pensa nelle immagini e nelle storia
affari in parti/specifics affari nei wholes/rapporti
analizzare/rottura a parte la volontà sintetizza/unito
pensa in sequenza pensa holistically
è il limite di tempo is time free
is extroverted is introverted
is characterized as male is characterized as female
identifies with the individual identifies with the group
is ordered/controlled is spontaneous/free

While our Western society and our education system emphasizes the left brain approach, it is important to learn how to create balance and peace with both sides of the brain.

analysis and synthesis
reasoning and intuition
extroversion and introversion
outer and inner
male and female
friend and enemy
capitalism and communism

My a-ha! The West is left-brain and the East is right brain!

Our actual brain structure includes the corpus callosum, a band of nerve fibers that bridges the two hemispheres. Interestingly, the female corpus callosum has 33 per cent more neurons than the male. That leads us to suppose that the female integrates both sides better than the male. Maybe that is why women can multi-task better than us guys.

East, West, left, right, wrong, right: which is best, which is right?
“..and never the twain shall meet,” or is it possible to meet?
This book is my story about how they did meet for me!

I believe the right way for humanity is to balance, to integrate the best parts of both. Instead of yes-but, it is yes-and.

Might this kind of thinking help us in our desperate search for world peace? Let us build bridges of balance to harmony, prosperity and peace.

Ernie Tadla, www.odysseychina.net

Next week: Chapter Two: Apprehension and Trepidation.
How we got to go to China.

From the book:
How to Live and Do Business in China: Eight Lessons I Learned from the Communists.
Ranked #4 on Amazon’s China business books category of over 570 titles. The first eight chapters of the book explain my personal experiences in settling into living in Shanghai. The second eight chapters are the Lessons I learned about how to do successful business in China. I have just completed sharing these lessons on this blog and they can be referenced through the archives. The last six chapters consist of the case histories of Microsoft, Wal Mart, VW, DMG, an example of one expat who didn’t make the transition and a summary chapter.
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One Response to “China Chapter One”

  1. sillygoat76 Says:

    I think this article over-idiomizes the difference between eastern and western culture as some biological brain function difference, which is weird and not very scientifically valid. I also am sure that not all people work that way … for example, I am a male (checked this morning!) and multitask way better than my ex (a female, of course, otherwise I’d have no basis for this comment). With this counterexample, it’s easy to see that gender generalizations are silly. Do you really know how females are? Have you ever been a female? And can you really have world peace with resource contention that comes from having a limited finite set of natural resources?

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