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Expert tips for productive confinement
Creative confinement: staying alive, sane, healthy, fit, productive and constructive while locked up for any reason.

Gabor Holch
Apr 11, 20225 min read


Why Western advertisers still get Chinese New Year wrong
Why, after a quarter century of involvement in China, do Western firms still get Chinese New Year Wrong? I see three principal reasons.

Gabor Holch
Jan 30, 20223 min read


Location, role or industry: What's your next expat move?
East-West Leadership webinar with global career coach Peter Hill: the 'three-pillar approach' of building expat careers.

Gabor Holch
Sep 16, 20213 min read


Expats behind China’s triple great wall
Foreign experts and businesses in China are a discriminated minority and a privileged elite at the same time. Foreign-Invested enterprises a
Gabor Holch
Jul 3, 20195 min read


Future-proofing your China expat management
In recent months, multinational offices in China’s first-tier cities have been beehives of activity. Minutes before our scheduled coaching s
Gabor Holch
Apr 14, 20195 min read


Expat leaders lost (and found) in cultural mazes
Most multinational executives I coach or train into newly assumed expat jobs nurture two different but related ambitions. First, they want t
Gabor Holch
Feb 26, 20195 min read


Three expert tips for successful networking in China
The non-extroverted majority of ambitious business leaders consider networking, similarly to public speaking, a dreadful and inevitable pros
Gabor Holch
Nov 7, 20184 min read


Personality: The hidden link between passion and profession
Personality defines your thoughts and actions. It is the key to your success, but also causes most of your frustrations. For example, observ
Gabor Holch
Apr 24, 20187 min read


Coaching leaders into cross-cultural jobs
Most firms select expat leaders based on technical competency and willingness, with an often complete disregard for personality or cultural
Gabor Holch
Mar 12, 20184 min read


Cross-cultural leadership skills are not what you think
Corporate leaders are sent abroad to get things done, but they often create more problems than they solve. Wondering why they succeed in one
Gabor Holch
Feb 26, 20185 min read


Chinese leaders board and rock the boat
While China still hasn’t produced a Fortune 500 multinational CEO, the debate whether that would happen is over. Now it’s just a question of
Gabor Holch
Feb 6, 20185 min read
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