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	<title>China Business &amp; Management Solutions: ChinaSolved</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Managing in China:  Bite the bullet or drink the Kool-Aid?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2011/01/04/managing-in-china-bite-the-bullet-or-drink-the-kool-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2011/01/04/managing-in-china-bite-the-bullet-or-drink-the-kool-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which are you – a team player or a lone wolf?
Not so fast there, tough guy.  If you are a Westerner posted to China, you may face more difficult choice than you thought.  Group-think is recognized as a business problem in the West, but here in China it’s called ‘harmony’ – and it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They’re baaack.</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2011/01/03/theyre-baaack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2011/01/03/theyre-baaack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 2011.  Shanghai. ChinaSolved is back on the job.  
NYC.  4th Tier Zhejiang.  HK science parks.  GuangDong trade fairs. I&#8217;m back in Shanghai with a little more perspective and a lot more questions.  Here are the big issues that ChinaSolved will be looking at in the new year.
* Censorship, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Wave of Expat Managers in China –Familiar Challenges, New Pressures.  Guest Post by Paul Salo</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/10/26/new-wave-of-expat-managers-in-china-%e2%80%93familiar-challenges-new-pressures-guest-post-by-paul-salo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/10/26/new-wave-of-expat-managers-in-china-%e2%80%93familiar-challenges-new-pressures-guest-post-by-paul-salo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Guest Authors</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post:  Paul Salo
ChinaSolved is pleased to publish important, relevant work by members of China’s international business community.   Today Paul Salo, owner of Shanghai-based  Serviced China, writes on the changing face of China’s expat community.
Few corporations will send employees overseas if there is any possible alternative.  Why?  The expats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For All the Tea in China - Tea party logic descends upon US-China relations</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/09/23/for-all-the-tea-in-china-tea-party-logic-descends-upon-us-china-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/09/23/for-all-the-tea-in-china-tea-party-logic-descends-upon-us-china-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>csblog</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Bear wrestling</category>
	<category>Recovery Now</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After almost 2 years of playing ‘rope-a-dope’ with China (and just ahead of the US midterm elections), the Obama administration has come out swinging - wildly.   International business people are going to have to learn to manage in a much less stable environment – but that might not be bad for everyone.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s your ex-pat raison d’etre?</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/08/10/hit-the-ground-running-in-china-20-part-b-what%e2%80%99s-your-ex-pat-raison-d%e2%80%99etre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/08/10/hit-the-ground-running-in-china-20-part-b-what%e2%80%99s-your-ex-pat-raison-d%e2%80%99etre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Training &amp; Development</category>
	<category>HR</category>
	<category>Innovaton Corner</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>expat training</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hit the ground running in China 2.0.   Part B:  What’s your ex-pat raison d’etre? 
Hey Ex-pat!  Why are you here? What are you bringing to the table?  
Even before the Great Recession of 2007, expats in China were grappling with an existential crisis.  On the one hand, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hit the ground running in China 2.0.</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/07/08/hit-the-ground-running-in-china-20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/07/08/hit-the-ground-running-in-china-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Training &amp; Development</category>
	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Accidental Expats</category>
	<category>expat training</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, when China was rock-bottom cheap but terribly backwards – circa 2006 – newly arrived expats could afford to spend 6 months wandering around in a confused daze getting the lay of the land and tip-toeing around those cultural barriers.   Multiple iterations of your business plan and half a dozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving China.</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/28/leaving-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/28/leaving-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Accidental Expats</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChinaSolved is packing up and transferring operations to the US for a while. After 8 years in Shanghai there is pressing business back State-side, but the move is not likely to be permanent.  Like many long-term expats, I’ll be spending the rest of my career shuttling back and forth.
Still, this is a good time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Times in China</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/14/interesting-times-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/14/interesting-times-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Recovery Now</category>
	<category>Chinas Fractured Web</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is set for some interesting times. For the last 6 years or so, Beijing has been demanding a role in world commerce commensurate with its stature and power. Careful what you wish for.  China’s academics and wonks have long talked about the need to move away from low-wage factory work – but now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinas Fractured Web - 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/10/chinas-fractured-web-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/10/chinas-fractured-web-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Managing in China</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
	<category>Chinas Fractured Web</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s recently published white paper (link) on the internet is emblematic of the situation facing China&#8217;s overseas management community &#8212; the good news is that we know the bad news.
In August and September of 2009 ChinaSolved published a mulit-part series entitled ‘China’s Fractured Web’, which envisioned the development of the Chinese Internet as a distinct, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Petty, the Paranoid and the Passive Aggressive, China can feel a lot like home.</title>
		<link>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/03/for-the-petty-the-paranoid-and-the-passive-aggressive-china-can-feel-a-lot-like-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chinasolved.com/blog/2010/06/03/for-the-petty-the-paranoid-and-the-passive-aggressive-china-can-feel-a-lot-like-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Accidental Expats</category>
	<category>Recovery Now</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the petty, the paranoid and the passive aggressive, China has everything you could possibly need or want in a counter-party.  It can be a romantic adventure of strategy and intrigue.    
Official China talks about Confucius and Westerners talk about Lao Tze &#8212; but the only one that regular Chinese on [...]]]></description>
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