To understand success, it is sometimes useful to talk about failure. Following the release of our book Dragon Tactics, I recently participated in a webinar organised from Shanghai by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, together with Aldo Spaanjaar. Adaptation, agility and flexibility, in a context of high global uncertainty, were at the…
We are in an era where uncertainties are becoming key components of our environment. Despite these challenges, Chinese entrepreneurs have been successful in developing major companies. What are the secrets to their successes? Providing answers to this and many other related questions is the core of “𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬”. Aldo Spaanjaars and I joined forces to…
For Western or foreign brands that desire to do business in China, achieving success requires learning some of the skills that Chinese entrepreneurs have been able to successfully master. From my years of experience in living and doing business in China, understanding the market, as well as consumer behaviour, have proven to be vital ingredients…
How did world-renowned Chinese companies like Haier, Huawei, Alibaba (and many others) become successful so quickly in one of the world’s most unpredictable, hyper-competitive markets? Informed by decades of living and working in China, Aldo Spaanjaars and I joined forces to share our combined experiences on what goes into navigating the local uncertainties that frustrate…
The factors of uncertainty are multiplying and we have lost the reassuring notion of normality. The idea is not to sink into a paralysing fear, but rather to become aware of this new state of affairs so that we can find tools to move forward in this context. It is possible, it is a question…
China has just implemented a new regulation on personal data protection. What does this new framework change in concrete terms?
The law was passed this summer and came into force on November 1st. In the space of a few months, the country has gone from a total artistic blur in terms of private data management to one of the strictest regulations in the world.
In China, there’s a generation gap, every three years, they say. Having spent the weekend to reacquaint myself with Shanghai’s retail scene, it struck me how young most shoppers are. Especially compared to my latest experiences in the Netherlands and Germany. Although it hit me, it did NOT come as a surprise. In China, younger…
Having now established my career of over 30 years in China, I can look back at how unexpected my arrival was. Before my remarkable encounter with Robert Louis-Dreyfus, which subsequently led to my arrival in China to work with @Adidas, my career was shaping up to go in a very different direction. In this clip,…
When I arrived in China, I was met with a remarkable difference from what we see today. In this conversation between Aldo Spaanjaars and myself to discuss the learnings from our latest book “𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬”, I shared some of my early impressions of China, from the enticing nature of Chinese entrepreneurs to their seemingly overly ambitious development…
The Chinese economy had shone in 2020, when it emerged from the crisis ahead of all other countries in the world. 2021 is marked by a slowdown: growth in China is losing color. A phenomenon to be followed closely for the impact it may have on the Chinese market and on the global recovery. For…
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