How to survive in a Chinese company
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How to survive in a Chinese company
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#2Chinese company (in China), 8 tips from personal experience/stories from friends
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#3Chinese company (in China), 8 tips from personal experience/stories from friends
This is a really excellent write up. I learned a lot from it, both about differences in international business culture and about ways to adjust to those internally.
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#4There is a lot of learned value here, but I am left with a sense that it isn't worth enduring such a broad spectrum of hardships and indignities for the individual reward. The emotional reward; the sense that you are advancing Chinese society, would also be discomforting, in that I have no love for many of their policies.
One can live comfortably elsewhere without accepting constant compromises at a personal and professional level. I would bet also that, as in Japan, one is always foreign, gaijin, alien, at the end of thr day, and this fact will present as a hard cap on potential.
Maybe it's covered elsewhere in another article, but this is a lot to endure.
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#5Why subject oneself to this though? Every point is negative, borderline Stockholm syndrome-ish and discussing how to “survive”.
presumably OP has a reason for enduring said suffering but it’s not really obvious from the post
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#6Am english educated chinese and must say the amount of tai-chi and social pressure makes me want to lay flat.
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#7Bleak write-up. Question: does it work? In a counterfactual where some of these corporate cultural things were alleviated, what would the impact be in the ability for the enterprise to meet it's goals? Points 1. and 2., I could guess they'd have a positive effect size if measuring a company's success is like it's probability of being able to continue to do business in the near future, but 5.??
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#9>"I also worked with fresh graduates in the Netherlands, but many of those were good designers, writers, and videographers from vocational education —"
Absolutely don't agree with your l this or I'm in another world I guess, easily the reasons why everything is English despite being Dutch
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#10As a parent, the described schedules seem impractical. It would be possible to hold the 8-10pm schedule in my early twenties, and truth be told I did for bursts of time. But this doesn't sound tractable at a mass scale, when do kids get taken care of?