The Cranky Middle Manager Show #40 Managing in China with Rich Kuslan
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #40
Welcome to our second show about managing in Asia, this time we talk to Rich Kuslan of the Asian Business Intelligence Blog. You also get to hear my first feeble attempts at speaking Mandarin. I can now order a beer in 4 languages, assuming you distinguish between English and American…….
This week’s fiasco is thanks to Chinese Pod. I’m guessing I’ll be in Asia sometime before the end of the year and I don’t want to be just another dumb Canadian/American… I want to be a Canadian/American making a feeble effort. It’s all about world peace, baby.
SHOW NOTES
0:00 Welcome to the show. The dreaded day job is starting to spread out, and I”m trying to not be just another useless Westerner in a changing world. We take a look at Confucius… he did exist and introduced the heretical concept of ethics in the public service. He lived in China, not in Chicago, that much is obvious.
5:00 our quote of the week and the heretical notion that Steven Covey may be as guilty of intellectual piracy as those DVD salespeople in Chinatown.
6:00 Welcome to Rich Kuslan- sales trainer, speaker, all around envoy to the Chinese business world. The world premiere of my Mandarin accent. How important is doing business with China and what are the challenges?
8:27 The Chinese management style- remnants of Communism, Confucianism, and Skepticism. Flexibility is the key.
11:00 Always walking the thin line between stereotype and observation- how important are relationships over tasks?
14:52 Taking Key Performance Indicators to extremes- when measurement outweighs common sense. Is China developing its own management style? We learn the different types of Chinese managers… Taiwanese, Hong Kong etc.
17:30 Where are the managers learning their trade? Western training doesn’t work all that well. This is important, folks. Your sanity may depend on this.
21:00 A personal story of culture clash and management style. Six Sigma is going to be verrrrrrry difficult to implement if this is typical.
26:32 What can we expect as we start to work with or even FOR Chinese companies and how’s it going to be different than working with Japan in the 80s?
31:15 Besides the Asia Business Intelligence Blog, where can you go for information?
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