• image04
 

Monthly Archives: February 2014

Jon Geldart has just completed a series of lectures on the key findings from the research. Jon was the keynote speaker at events in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Stockholm. The main questions people asked after hearing of the complexities and challenges but significant opportunities in China were around how to distil everything down to a few simple lessons?! Broadly this is not possible but here are a few tips from Jon to think about when doing business with or in China.

1. Expect complexity. Things are multi layered and multi faceted so expect to…

Read More

Jon Geldart shares another lesson from the front line of Chinese business. The Chinese chairmen reminded us that managing ambiguity and ‘grey’ is a long tradition in China. Acceptance of…

Jon Geldart provides another lesson from Chinese leadership. The chairmen we spoke to in almost evey case were clear about what they felt they could draw from their understanding of…