We introduced Greg Bissky to you in some earlier posts ( if you missed those, you can find them here: ‘Western and Chinese business-More Than 1 Way To Communicate‘ and ‘Communication in Chinese Offices‘). This time Greg talks about Chinese meetings. According to Greg, there are three times to a Chinese meeting, before the meeting, after the meeting and during the meeting. And the one time Chinese do not decide things, is during the actual meeting. Meetings are for maintaining harmony and relationships, decisions and arguments are made before and after.

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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 …

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By Ernie Tadla

The Bora launch was the most successful new car launch in China’s automotive history. FAW/VW couldn’t make them fast enough.

The Germans, still hurting over not getting their advertising agency, were really smarting because DMG was not following their global policy for advertising and marketing style and format. Yet, sales were phenomenal. VW hired a world-class market research Hong Kong firm to investigate the reason for the amazing launch results.

The conclusion: although DMG didn’t follow the global VW policy, the market place responded because the Chinese react to someone who markets to them the Chinese way. Read the rest of “An outstanding successful executive in North America, not in China” or post a comment

By Ernie Tadla

This is the story of an entrepreneur building a profitable business by beating all the global big guys.
 
Dan Mintz was born and raised in Brooklyn, and was the youngest person to be accepted into the New York Academy of Performing Arts. He started in the movie business as a student extra in the movie Fame. He went to Los Angeles where he furthered his education and experience in film production and created good connections with some of the major movie studios.

In the early ’90s, he went to China to set up a joint venture for a major movie studio. This was shortly after the Tiananmen Square fiasco and the climate for partnerships with American firms was cold, if not frozen, particularly with the Ministry of Culture, which would have to be involved. Read the rest of “A China Success Story: Dan Mintz and DMG” or post a comment

This Soloshow East meets West by Yang Liu, which was placed at ministry of foreign afairs in Germany, is poster art that compares German / Western culture with Chinese culture in a way that humorously captures some societal differences. Needless to say blue represents Western culture and red Chinese?

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