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The past few years drastically rewrote the job descriptions of mid- to high-level managers and executives at multinational firms.

How can international managers prepare their businesses for the dramatic changes in China?

Do the corporate values of your team or firm make as much sense now as they did before the pandemic?

Is there a simple narrative to explain China's unfolding economic, political, business and cultural environment for expats & foreign firms?

Three common online negotiation situations where you are likely to fail for intercultural reasons.

Why are people afraid of replacing their leaders in uncertain time, why are leaders afraid to let go, and why they really should?

What are the essential qualities for China CEOs according to author Dr Laurie Underwood, and why they will not be found in one person.

For leaders in business, healthcare, government, education and more, 2020 was both a dream and a nightmare. How can they do better in 2021?

There is no safe place to hide from culture, whatever the industry. Chinese investors approach financial risk differently from Swiss ones.

Global people skills aren’t optional any more—2019 made this message clear. Global business reached managers of tiny startups in Mumbai or m

Research on millennials makes fascinating reading. Never before have we dedicated so much time and effort to understanding the talents, need

Foreign experts and businesses in China are a discriminated minority and a privileged elite at the same time. Foreign-Invested enterprises a

Globalisation in business, management and leadership often disorient the very people who are supposed to provide orientation to others. Take

In recent months, multinational offices in China’s first-tier cities have been beehives of activity. Minutes before our scheduled coaching s

Most multinational executives I coach or train into newly assumed expat jobs nurture two different but related ambitions. First, they want t

By the time Dave took up his post as the Shanghai branch’s General Manager, he had done his homework on Confucian leadership. Nurturing ambi

This year more than last, a global marketplace of goods, services and ideas will give you a tough part in a drama taking place on a divided

“They are quite polite and indirect,” the new project manager describes her local colleagues. “When they communicate problems, you have to g

The non-extroverted majority of ambitious business leaders consider networking, similarly to public speaking, a dreadful and inevitable pros

As the USA and China fortify their trade-war trenches, expat leaders at multinational corporations (MNCs) become unwanted combatants in a co