The Executive Recruiting in 21th Century

I Spent some time to walk through a few top executive headhunters' website, good to see many companies already had a sense of urgency to change the recruiting style for hunting the leaders and senior executives, there're some international job openings listed on their website, which is great, to make the process more transparent. I believe the key revolution for recruiting the senior talent is really not suppose to just sell the past, should more...

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The Art of BPM in Web 2.0 Era

In last couple of years, we’ve been through the toughest Big Recession in our life, there’re so many industries suffering and struggling to keep surviving, as we discussed before, if any panaceas to save them, BPM (Business Process Management) could be one of the cures. BPM enables the business grow and transform in steps with these changes, in today’s digitized web 2.0 world, BPM is more like coordination of the digital asset, resources and orchestrating...

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Globalization

Globalization means to unify, digest, inherent and absorb the quintessence of world-wide multiple cultures, to build up the colorful global culture and the best world than ever.Today, I got the opportunity to participate the web meeting about “Cross-Cultural Competency”, very impressed on Dr. Karine Shomer’s deeper presentation focusing on multiple dimensions of diversity, core value difference of culture, and related work protocol differences. From...

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Are there any panaceas to cure the troubled companies in those traditional industries?

 Heterogeneous senior leadership team could help to stimulate the deeper business thinking, create the new revenue stream, and expand the business globally. This economic downturn has made many great companies fall, a few listed in Jim Collin’s "Good to Great" list, such as Circuit City. Jim already clarified those pitfalls in his new book "How the Mighty Fall", so my questions would be: are there any panaceas to cure the troubled companies...

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Talking about “Sustainable Cloud” in San Patrick’s day

Today, the San Patrick’s day, people celebrate the day with parades, wearing of the green, and drinking green beer, we went to the Cloud-Connect conference, to brainstorm the cloud. Just summarized 5 Q&As about this holiday “cloud phenomenal”: 1.What kind of Cloud do we categorize, who are the leaders these days?There’re public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, community cloud., etc. Amazon is the dominated pioneering leader to host public...

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BI instill the new brain to the 21th century modern businesses

If you think cloud computing is the wind under modern enterprise’s wing, then BI (Business Intelligence) would be the new brain to stimulate today’s business strategy, to help streamline the business process, to increase efficiency and effectiveness. What’s exactly BI? Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. BI provides software...

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Cloud with the chance to WIND OR SUNSHINE

Cloud computing is not only the buzzword these day, but also a revolutionary phenomenal to make impact on all the industries, businesses, and even consumers. Though many IT gurus complain about its ambiguity, actually I feel “cloud” is such a great name or signal to bring up the unlimited imagination, just like the movie “Cloudy with the chance of meatballs”. As entrepreneur, Cloud computing may help us to build up the global business on the...

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Inclusiveness

The thought leadership in 21th century should be more like a water-color painting or oil painting, undertaking more finished art work. Today is March. 8, the international women’s day celebrate 100 years, though it’s not national holiday in US, it evokes some more thoughts about women leadership, definitely it made significant progress in the last century, but it’s still long way to go. The leadership style in 20th century is more like a sketch,...

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New American vs. New Shanghainese

Shang Hai, the biggest city in China, develop so fast, it attracts many new immigrants to reside in the city, to make the permanent population in Shang Hai amounted to 19.21 million at the end of 2009. The new immigrants in Shang Hai come from following different categories: Executives and managers in multi-national companies from US and Europe and worldwide become the new Shang Hai Expatriates, to work and live there; the oversea students and...

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21th Century of Leadership

The first decade of 21th century is more focusing on idea generation, created internet engine and tools (such as Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter., etc) to connect worldwide people more effectively; the second decade of 21th century which is we are facing now may focus on vision building and integration, to collect and create the new wisdom by penetrating variety of culture, philosophy, and belief, to embrace the difference and global DNA. • Diversity:...

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