Hi everybody (and in particular Celina, John, Mayke, Christina, Louis-Bertrand, Denise, Hani, Rob, Benoît, Jorge, Jef, Nir, who did I miss?),

Thanks, to many of you, for sending me mail asking what the China Business Group on LinkedIn is about and what you can to do help make the group an overwhelming success! I – Michiel a.k.a. Michael – hope you will appreciate me answering some questions through this message to all members. As it will:

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Now that we are counting down to the 2008 Olympic games, first-time and not so recent visitors to China are no doubt wondering what they will see when they land in Beijing next August. In the run-up to the games, we will take every opportunity to describe the changes that are taking place in China and paint the picture of how the country will look in another year.

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Shaun Rein is the Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), www.researchcmr.com. He has been widely published, written about and quoted in newspapers worldwide including BusinessWeek, the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Dow Jones’ MarketWatch, TheStreet.com, Investor’s Business Daily, Finance Asia, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s. Over his decade in China, he has assisted hundreds of…

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What happened to me while I was writing this book.

“Oh, East is East, and West is West,
and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at
God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West,

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Gender confusion seems to be the topic of the day right now, with a recent report that cites 30% of young women identifying their personality as part-male, part-female.

This has important implications for the workplace, especially for those who have yet to recognize the sea change in attitudes.

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