DiligenceChina

Markets are slipping – some would even say sliding. Your first impulse is to do something. Anything. Sell out. Double down. Scrap your expansion plans. Cut your prices. Go back to grad school.
Now is a great time for aggressive patience. Hold the line for just a couple […]

The battle for Human Resource Assets (quaintly referred to as “staff” or “people” in some quarters) is intensifying in China’s big cities, and anyone preparing to launch or expand a business here needs to develop a sensible strategy for acquiring and retaining qualified people.
For quick background on China’s HR challenges start with ChinaLawBlog’s lively […]

A question I get asked a lot is, “what’s the next big development to affect the Chinese economy?” There are a lot of trends and evolutionary changes underway — like an increase in the level of competition in the service industry, solidification of MNCs’ market leadership, and the continued lack of branding ability among […]

Jeremy Gordon, a consultant who knows more than a little about business trends in China, alerts his readers to a growing resistance among SOE (State Owned Enterprise) managers and bureaucrats to continued sales of state assets to foreigners. Take note of his recent post on ChinaBusiness Services.com http://www.chinabusinessservices.com/blog/?p=440
This trend is A) not […]

A friend visiting from out of town looking to open a business in China asked me, “Are you one of those people who think that China will be the world’s economic leader in 20 years, or will it happen sooner?” I haven’t been in finance for a while, but that’s what we used to […]