We learned about Chinese business etiquette at meals. It's remarkable how hierarchal and authority-driven it all is.
American etiquette, vis-a-vis power and status, might call for the most important person to sit at the head of...
Tuesday night at the San Francisco's Wharton School on Howard, Kevin Werbach moderated a discussion with John Hagel III and John Seely Brown about The Big Shift: measuring the forces of change.
In the Harvard Business...
What's the history of family-style eating? You know, the method of food serving where it's all put on communal plates in the middle and each person helps himself.
I'm told that this became the Chinese-way originally...
I have said good bye to my friends and colleagues in Sokode. It was not easy, but they threw lots of parties for me. Several going away events were thrown in my honor, 2 at...
"Get me out of here." Those were my first thoughts upon landing back in Beijing after the pretty painless 12 hour non-stop from San Francisco.
It's not the first time I've had moments of instant regret...
I just spent the week with the new group of volunteers who just arrived from America in June. I quizzed them about new trends, music, and technology. It seems I’ve missed quite a bit - I...
The hardest part about visiting Whistler in the summer is trying to figure how to fit the myriad of activities into a day that only has 24-hours. You see Whistler is not only a winter...
My bar stool was in the middle of the hallway facing the open-kitchen and half-obstructing a walkway. I guess I was in the way of walking-traffic, but in all honesty I didn’t care.
I was getting...
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