If you have 3 1/2 minutes to spare, please check out this short video, featuring myself, Janet Carmosky (Founder and CEO of The China Business Network), and Dr. Ian Hau (Founder and CEO of Orchestrall). It’s from a recent event we (Orchestrall) sponsored, put on by Janet and The China Business Network. The video quality [...]

In today’s second consecutive tongue-in-cheekily titled post, we take a look at a different scenario from the one discussed in the last post: The government passes a law doubling the income tax without consulting the citizens. Is the government right to do this? What would citizens say? What would they do? What should they do? [...]

In a post from last year, I touched briefly on some results from my research having to do with a hypothetical scenario. Today we take a deeper dive. The scenario: Suppose a citizen is walking down the street one day when the police arrest him.  They don’t tell him why; they simply arrest him and [...]

Building on the last post about the primacy of money in the Chinese mindset, today we take a look at how this stacks up with a contrasting view from the U.S. This post picks up exactly where the last one left off, just after Carolyn Blackman has described the elaborate, theatrical negotiations she observed in [...]

Elaborating here on the theme from the last book post: the scarcity of money in the Chinese mindset. I ended that last book post by contrasting the default Chinese view with a different, American view of scarcity: the opportunity to use one’s talents in the most fulfilling way possible. In this post we delve more [...]

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are on a mission to make the world a better place. Using their vast fortunes and public visibility, they have launched an effort to get the world’s billionaires to donate more of their wealth to worthy causes. What would happen, some wondered, when they took their effort to China? The [...]

In this book post, the first in a while, we delve into a world quite the opposite of the ethereal “God” world of the last book post — though we return to this world toward the end. A starkly different picture is painted by the Chinese data. This matter-of-fact statement encapsulates the essence of the [...]

A few days ago I co-led a training to a roomful of 20- and 30-something nuclear engineers from China, in the U.S. on a job-shadow program. They had been in the U.S. for about a week. The first thing we had them do, after brief introductions, was, in small groups, to list out on a [...]

I’m now feeding the blog I write for Orchestrall into this page on my site. If you click on any of the posts you’ll end up at the blog page within the Orchestrall site, and if you’d like to subscribe you can do it there. Different flavor, you’ll see!

So much more to say about the trip, but for now back to the book. In the last “book” post, I introduced “cultural models” in the context of a discussion about whether a hypothetical “Tom” should join a rock band or go to college. Here we’ll look at some actual linguistic data. An excerpt from [...]