Podcast
Inside the Chinese Mind - China Business Development
Hosted by Dr Helen Zhang | Darren Fooks · EN
How to successfully do cross border business with the Chinese culture.
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S1E22 - How do you ZhongYong? Part 2
Oct 10, 201900:25:53Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. In Part 2 of our podcast on ZhongYong, we discuss some practical examples of ZhongYong, such as the Grey Area -v- the Western desire for clarity and certainty, differing negotiations styles and decision making. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E21 - How do you ZhongYong Part 1
Oct 2, 201900:27:32Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. If YingYang is the Operating System of the Chinese mind, today we look at another of the 5 Software Programs that run on that Operating System - ZhongYong. The Chinese mind is taught during its formative years that to serve society the best, one must live life in the middle, sitting properly in the position that you hold in life at the time. No individualism here. Whereas Westerners are taught to always strive to be number 1. Listen to some practical examples of the application of ZhongYong and what it means for working with the Chinese Mind. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E20 - Our Man Zhang Ruimin ...
Sep 25, 201900:11:14Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. He has been the leader of Haier Group since 1985. He has taken the Haier Group from being a bankrupt Chinese domestic refrigerator manufacturer, to the most successful global white goods manufacturer in teh world with 12% of the global market. He has transformed Haier Group from a Manufacturer into a platform for lightning fast development of new technologies. Ladies and gentlemen, may I please introduce Mr Zhang Ruimin, the leader of Haier Group since 1985. This week we idolise the person who has used YinYang Epistemology to transform a company into stardust ... Listen to some practical examples of the application of Yin Yang thinking by Mr Zhang and how he has remained humble despite his success. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E19 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 5)
Sep 18, 201900:19:59Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. This week we wrap up on the Haier Journey up to 2019 and beyond (well, we get a bit lost at the beginning, but we get there). And we discuss how Yin Yang epistemology makes even just setting a meeting time into a totally different process. Listen to some practical examples of the application of Yin Yang thinking by the Chinese Mind, and how to cope under a Socratic Epistemology. Wicked stuff. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E18 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 3)
Sep 11, 201900:25:11Tap to summarizeSee our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. How can a company go from bankrupt, to a water drop, to a creek, to a river then to an ocean. Just add YinYang ... This week in Part 3 of our series on the Haier leadership model, we discuss what Yin Yang is, and the major differences between Western Socratic thinking and Chinese Yin Yang thinking. And we discuss some practical examples of the application of Yin Yang thinking by the Chinese Mind. Let's go Podcats! Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia.
Transcribe →S1E1 - Intro to your hosts ...
Sep 9, 201900:15:07Tap to summarizeDr Helen Zhang of the University of Cambridge and author of the book "Think More Like Chinese" and Darren Fooks, lawyer who has worked on cross border and cross culture business investment for the last year 20 years, take you through their learnings of how to do successfully business with the Chinese culture.
Transcribe →S1E17 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 2)
Sep 4, 201900:19:21Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. Last week we started to discuss the Yin Yang based decisions that has launched Haier into being the glory child of the white goods world. This week we hit our straps on how the Yin Yang Operating System of the Chinese Mind has enabled Haier to operate in a way that is different to western style companies. We explore how Yin Yang postulates that inconsistencies are not to be collapsed into a final truth and how the Chinese Mind can think along the pendulum of potential outcomes all at the same time - doing that balancing thing ...
Transcribe →S1E16 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 1)
Aug 28, 201900:21:16Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. If Yin Yang is the operating System of the Chinese Mind, it is also the underlying operating system of Chinese business. This week we start looking at strategic decisions made by Haier over the years that show the Yin Yang operating system at work, and how they have taken Haier from a bankrupt refrigerator manufacturer, to the most successful white goods developer and manufacturer in the world with 13% of the world's white goods market. What is this thing called Yin Yang? Is it a central tenant of Taoism? Is it a cool symbol to put on your surfboard? Is it the Cognitive Orientation of all Chinese business thinking? In the Baker-Zhang Model of Chinese Business Culture, we go for Option 3. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E15 - YinYang ... just replace "either/or" with "and"
Aug 22, 201900:24:12Tap to summarizeBrought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. Last week we discussed the Cognitive Orientation of the Chinese Mind. This week we start to consider its applications. From Chinese style medicine (prevention not cure) to how contracts carry an extra dimension in the Chinese Mind, we see how the Chinese live, expect and depend on change to fulfill their business needs. Enjoy Podcats!
Transcribe →S1E14 - What is this thing called Yin Yang
Aug 15, 201900:23:56Tap to summarize Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. See our Podcast Flowsheets at www.chinadvisors.com. What is this thing called Yin Yang? Is it a central tenant of Taoism? Is it a cool symbol to put on your surfboard? Is it the Cognitive Orientation of all Chinese business thinking? In the Baker-Zhang Model of Chinese Business Culture, we go for Option 3. If Mianzi is the PIN to the ATM of the Chinese Mind (actually, it is) Yin Yang is the underlying and mostly hidden operating system of all Chinese thinking. This week we discuss what Yin Yang is, and the major differences between Western Socratic thinking and Chinese Yin Yang thinking. We explore how Yin Yang postulates that inconsistencies are not to be collapsed into a final truth and how the Chinese Mind can think along the pendulum of potential outcomes all at the same time. And we give a little teaser of the practical examples of the application of Yin Yang thinking by the Chinese Mind, which we will dive into in more detail in the next few podcasts. Enjoy Podcats!
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