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BMW seems well-prepared for PR crises like last week's ice-cream incident at the Shanghai Auto show. Is your firm, supplier or client?

psos Happiness 2023: China's inflated happiness score and why business leaders must understand it

How should senior managers of foreign firms in China plan, invest, hire, delegate and execute differently in today’s turbulent environment?

At our next free East-West Leadership webinar 6 April, 2023 we discuss new China strategy papers I read from global think-tanks.

An expat position is not just another promotion. Even seasoned executives will meet unexpected hurdles once they take their careers abroad.

What executives must know about the way Asian and Western ideas differ about a leader’s responsibilities towards others.

Who is better prepared for today’s volatile and uncertain environment: European or Chinese managers?

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?

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

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

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

For an intercultural consultant, these two years have been like a goldmine full of carelessly placed dynamite.

LinkedIn has disappeared from China, a fact whose significance depends on which side of the Great Firewall you are.

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.

Intercultural consultants Gabor Holch & Jurriaan Meyer discuss ‘China+1’, the concept of balancing the increasing geopolitical and human res

Respecting diverse opinions, temperaments and work styles is every professional team’s philosophy—until the first crisis comes along.