Managing The Dragon

Having lived in China for the past 20 years, one question I’m frequently asked is: “What about the United States do you miss most?” For my wife and me, the answer to that question is easy—the holidays. On the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, or Labor Day, when everyone in the States is taking a [...]

Now that MTD is a bit more “user friendly,” we’ve started to receive more comments from our readers. I’m delighted with this trend and encourage all of you to send along your thoughts on China and the articles that appear on the site. It lets me know what’s on your mind and enables me to [...]

When I went to work on Wall Street in 1973 (Can it really have been that long ago?), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) stood at 855. Seven years later, as the United States closed out the 1970s, it had actually declined a bit to 838. With such weak equity markets, of course, raising capital [...]

David Wolf hits the proverbial nail on the head in his latest retort to my articles on the construction equipment industry. Like David, I too am a “Caterpillar fanboy.” After all, my book, Managing the Dragon, begins with a description of the amazing equipment show that CAT put on for its key suppliers at the [...]

China is an opportunity for everyone, I make sure to emphasize to those interested in the country. There is a tendency to think that you have to be Chinese, to know a lot about China, or to speak the language fluently to be able to participate in the growth of the country. While all of [...]

China’s construction machinery industry is an interesting one to study in some detail because it illustrates many of the trends in China that we have highlighted at various times on MTD and that I identified in my book, Managing the Dragon. Construction machinery is yet one more industry where China is leading the world in [...]

I finally had a chance to meet Dan Harris of the Harris & Moure law firm and one of the creators of China Law Blog: China Law For Business, a leading blog that focuses on legal matters in China. Dan and I have communicated over the past year by e-mail and through our respective blogs, [...]

James Zhang and Vivek Raman, the two students who organized the “Asia Tomorrow” conference at Yale University several weeks ago, were very clear in what they wanted me to cover in my keynote speech. They wanted me to give my views as to how China and Asia would develop in the coming years, but they [...]

Trust me, I didn’t plan it this way. As my kids will attest, the last place I would have chosen to be during the Spring Festival holiday was in the middle of millions of die-hard Obama supporters. But, the rallies in Germany and Grant Park were nothing compared to where Carleen and I are headed—-Kenya, [...]

I was honored to learn that I have been included in the Forbes.com Business Visionaries Series presented by Microsoft. According to Forbes.com: Business Visionaries are thought-provoking leaders with an enduring message. The standard is high. Each one of the BV’s profiled in Forbes.com’s new series is a proven leader, a known decision maker and, most [...]