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Inside the Chinese Mind - China Business Development

by Dr Helen Zhang | Darren Fooks

How to successfully do cross border business with the Chinese culture.

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Episodes

  1. S1E22 - How do you ZhongYong? Part 2

    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. In Part 2 of our podcast on ZhongYong, we discuss some practical examples of ZhongYong, such as the Grey Area -v-...

  2. S1E21 - How do you ZhongYong Part 1

    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. If YingYang is the Operating System of the Chinese mind, today we look at another of the 5 Software Programs that...

  3. S1E20 - Our Man Zhang Ruimin ...

    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. He has been the leader of Haier Group since 1985. He has taken the Haier Group from being a bankrupt Chinese...

  4. S1E19 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 5)

    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. 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...

  5. S1E18 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 3)

    See 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...

  6. S1E1 - Intro to your hosts ...

    Dr 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...

  7. S1E17 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 2)

    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. Last week we started to discuss the Yin Yang based decisions that has launched Haier into being the glory child…

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  8. S1E16 - The Haier story and Yin Yang (Part 1)

    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. If Yin Yang is the operating System of the Chinese Mind, it is also the underlying operating system of Chinese...

  9. S1E15 - YinYang ... just replace "either/or" with "and"

    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. Last week we discussed the Cognitive Orientation of the Chinese Mind. This week we start to consider its...

  10. S1E14 - What is this thing called Yin Yang

    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…

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  11. S1E13 - Before Yin Yang - What is Cognitive Orientation?

    Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. In the Baker-Zhang Model of Chinese Business Culture, Yin Yang is the DNA of Chinese business thinking and actions. Whist Mianzi is the PIN to the ATM of the Chinese...

  12. S1E12 - How to work with Yinyang/Bessie Zhang Interview

    Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers of Australia. This week we start our discussions of Yinyang, with an interview with Bessie Zhang from Shinewing Accountants. ShineWing Australia is a leading international Asia...

  13. S1E11 - Interview with Miao Wang from CNVM Investments

    Find our written podcast notes at www.chinadvisors.com. Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers Australia ... Miao Wang is a 20 year CBA (Chinese born Australian) who has skillfully developed her family's investment company, CNVM Investments, in...

  14. S1E10 - How to communicate with the Chinese Mind

    Find our written podcast notes at https://likechinese.co.uk/podcasts. Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang of Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers Australia ... Western communication follows deductive logic (premise + premise = conclusion), is sequential (i.e. each statement builds...

  15. S1E9 - How to develop Mianzi (Part 2 of 2) ...

    FIND OUR WRITTEN PODCAST NOTES AT www.likechinese.co.uk/podcasts. Brought to you by Dr Helen Zhang from www.chinadvisors.com in Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers Australia ... This is Part 2 of how to develop the most essential in succeeding in business with the Chinese…

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  16. S1E8 - How to develop Mianzi (Part 1 of 2) ...

    FIND OUR WRITTEN PODCAST NOTES AT www.likechinese.co.uk/podcasts Brought to you by www.chinadvisors.com Dr Helen Zhang from Cambridge UK and Darren Fooks from Thomson Geer Lawyers Australia ... Throughout the full array of Chinese teachings, from nursery rhymes taught as part of the formal…

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  17. S1E7 - How Chinese Think - The Baker-Zhang Model (Part 3 of 3) ...

    This week we outline the final of the three levels of Chinese thinking. Last week we outlined the first two levels - Yin Yang and Rushidao. We learn that the most fundamental and all pervasive basis of Chinese thinking is Yin Yang. Yin Yang is about balance as opposed to right and wrong. The next...

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How to successfully do cross border business with the Chinese culture.

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