Sales training in China has made me a tougher buyer. One thing I no longer have time for is a sales person who tries to sell me something different before I have made a decision on his original pitch. Sell one thing at a time. That’s my advice for yo...

Student wins lottery, leaves school | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "The Communist Party abolished lotteries in China after taking power in 1949, denouncing them as a practice of decadent capitalists. But the country launched state-run lotteries in 1987 am...

I am not at the top of the rankings as a Martian Search Engine (SEO) expert ( I am only 3rd), but I might be after this post! The algorithms that govern what is and is not registered by search engines like Google and Yahoo! are shape-shifters: They catal...

...an earlier blog of April 2006 we acknowledged the conventional marketing wisdom of one brand globally. However, in the case of China, with four times the population of U.S., it was an appropriate trade off for Google to change its name there. It turns o...

During Bali, everyone was telling the US that China’s lack of a binding emissions reduction plan is not a reasonable excuse for not having one yourself. It is a fair point. Many environmentalists and Southern politicians also argue that any obligation t...

My Short March through China | Gary Rosen | Commentary...