Google TechTalks
July 5, 2006
Teng-Kee Tan
A US corporate marketing man born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore who later struck out on his own, Prof Teng-Kee Tan did business for 10 years in China and now runs (and teaches in) joint graduate programs in technology entrepreneurship and innovation between institutions in Singapore, US and China.
ABSTRACT
Prof Teng-Kee Tan talks about the "dilemma approach" to the opportunities and challenges of doing business in China as we examine and reconcile Eastern and Western values and culture.
it must be your mis-understanding in chinese,because asking for the way is so common in china,and unknown will never be a "face loss" thing.For foreigners féichang hâo means good but not good enough. if your chinese is excellent you must be praised in heart.
roynzh 2 years ago
Aboslutely great! I used it to sensitize my International Business students and worked perfectly.
donnabella73 3 years ago
Chinese have to stop being so exaggeratedly nice. You ask somebody for the way - they tell you the wrong direction, even if they don't know it, just to avoid the "face loss".
They never tell you when you say something wrong in Chinese - how the hell can I learn to speak propper chinese, when everyone around tells me my Chinese is féichang hâo???
You can't say to a worker how he has to improve his way of working, or else he won't ever talk to you again. My experiences ;)
Ma3Hu1 3 years ago