This is going to seem ridiculous to my readers (all 6 of the non-robot readers). Today I have read three minor news articles which give me hope. These news articles are not related to each other and not really related to business. But for some reason, these give me hope that China [...]

Sometimes as I start to read a post or news article, I come up with major objections, then as I read through, I notice that I’m not the only one to come up with the objections.
Today I read that China’s middle class will reach 700 million
by 2020, according to Euromonitor. … 700 million out of [...]

Forbes’ Gady Epstein posted a satirical fantasy story “Would BP’s CEO Have Been Executed In China?.” (h/t Shanghaiist) [note...maybe its just my blind eyes so it took me a few minutes before I realized that the arrow next to the title is used to navigate the slide-show]
I don’t know about Gady Eptein, but I [...]

I have posted many times before about the Google-leaving-China issue. Today, the topic has come up again.
To reiterate, I state that Google’s decision to stop Self-censoring was not the most moral of its options. It would have been better for the cause of Freedom and for the Chinese people if Google remained in [...]

As I mentioned in the last post, I did not post last week because I was travelling in Europe. Actually, the last week of April I accompanied my team of Chinese “Key Users” to Germany to learn about the “Core Model” of the European unit’s SAP-implementation. After spending two weeks in Germany, I [...]

And here I go… posting on the same topic. I don’t want to post on this topic because its one of those things which is useless to talk about. On the other hand, I feel I need closure… I need to wrap it up. Not just wrap up my opinion, but also [...]

I finished the European Association (AKA DUSA) first-workshop on Performance Management Systems last Thursday. This was a smallish (8 participant), intimate, workshop. My previous experience with training managers from DUSA companies gave me the impression that these companies usually do not have strong management teams, especially in the HR function. However, the [...]

Taikongren Management Consulting (TMC) helps its customers improve their China organization, improve their processes, and improve their people management.
Taikongren Management Consulting provides China-focused Change Management Project consulting.  Within “Change Management” TMC performs:

HR Performance Management (and People Development) process consulting
SAP Project Management Consulting
Sales and Marketing Process Management Consulting
General Management Consultation

TMC prides itself as being the a “China [...]