Nós introduzimos-lhe Greg Bissky em algum uns bornes mais adiantados (se você faltasse aqueles, você pode os encontrar aqui: ‘Ocidental e chinês negócio-Mais de 1 maneira comunicar-se`e `Uma comunicação em escritórios chineses‘). Esta vez Greg fala sobre reuniões chinesas. De acordo com Greg, há três vezes a uma reunião chinesa, antes da reunião, após a reunião e durante a reunião. E o um chinês do tempo não decide coisas, é durante a reunião real. As reuniões são para a harmonia mantendo e os relacionamentos, as decisões e os argumentos são feitos before and after.

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Por Heather J. Hasan

As bestas com olhos da perfuração e gigantescos enormes, mythical, bocas rujir estão o protetor em muitas dos edifícios os mais importantes e de estruturas antigas de China. O nome destas criaturas imponentes é “Fu Dogs” ou Rui Shi (” cão auspicious” no Mandarin), sabido também como leões imperiais do Guardian.

Começado durante o Dynasty de Han (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.), a tradição de colocar duas estátuas grandes dos leões masculinos e fêmeas perto da entrada de um estabelecimento foram pretendidos ward fora dos espíritos evil e proteger dos inimigos, e dos ladrões. Estas estátuas foram criadas do mármore, bronze, ferro, e o granito e o custo eram caros, conseqüentemente somente o rico poderia ter recursos para a proteção do cão de Fu. Because of this, Fu Dogs became a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Read the rest of “Rui Shi - The Imperial Guardian Lions” or post a comment

Profiling the Chinese consumer

By Nick Debnam & George Svinos, KPMG

While hard work and plain living have been revered virtues of the Chinese people for generations, there has been a growth in demand for foreign-branded or imported goods.(19) But running counter to the growing habit of consumption in China is the traditional propensity to save. Though luxury consumption is growing, for most the dominant social idea is still prudent consumption and undertaking no more than you can perform. (20)

Research suggests that while the emerging middle class will continue to save heavily, they will also spend increasing amounts of money. (21) This is consistent with trends that suggest that China’s younger generation of teenagers and twenty-somethings show less of the caution of their parents and grandparents, and far more inclination to spend than to save. Read the rest of “Luxury Brands in China, Part II” or post a comment

By Alex Cureton-Griffiths

For most foreigners, networking with Chinese can be a little tough. Well, thanks to a question we posted on LinkedIn Answers, we’re hoping to make things a little clearer. In brief:

They’re not that different

People often get so caught up in the differences that they fail to see the similarities between Chinese and western cultures. Just be yourself and don’t worry about skipping across the cultural minefield. Just as most of us would go easy on any local who made a social faux pas without knowing, local Chinese aren’t going to bite your head off if you accidentally put your foot in it. Read the rest of “What the Chinese Want You to Know about Networking” or post a comment

MICROSOFT IN CHINA 

By Ernie Tadla

It took Bill Gates twelve years and billions of missed revenue, profit and market share opportunities to learn how to do business in China … the Chinese Way.

Microsoft came to China in 1992. Eleven years later, with global revenues of $35 billion US, in China the second largest PC market in the world, Microsoft-China revenue was $300 million, and it was operating at a loss.

Source: Newsweek, Asia edition. June 21/04

Several quotes from the article:
• “….. struggling to turn a profit, the brash American software giant is no longer trying to change China. Instead, China is changing the company.”

• “Microsoft started to heed the critics and to embrace China more fully. It is now broadly co-operating, even flying Chinese engineers to Redmond for training.”

• “CEO Steve Ballmer has credited his ‘very well-connected’ China CEO (pirated from Nortel) with Read the rest of “Microsoft and Wal-Mart in China” or post a comment