Take-aways at AAMA about China

1. practical experiences working in China
- David needs some work experience in China: internship? part-time?

2. Behave like a REAL Chinese
- David has been keeping it up! keep the good job up! Friends, esp Chinese, please point out to David if he does

something stupid, k?

3. Overseas experiences are good BUT those are only assets belong to you which are not previlliges.
- David should take overseas experiences as enriching, fun, learning and happy as possible. World is never that

small!

4. Groom management team from stretch (starting company in China) [professional managers are not good to be put

above people suddenly]
- David should obtain some skills in terms of management but not to be a professinonal manager. i don think that

could be a career. sounds like VC… I’d rather join VC area to help companies… that’s more professional than

professional manager…

5. everyone knows about how much colleauges are earning in China
- so don’t try to hide it. where there is a will, there is a way. that happens all the time in China. Only the

government has done something to cover certain history up… still we could find it out. paper can never cover up

fire.

6. Work with government officials to get to know the rules, so you might be able get around them.
- really practical… believe it or not, it’s all about connections and relationships… wherever you go and

whatever you do! it is a matter of how people look at it and how much is it? hmmmmm…. think about it

7.Understand the local cultures even within China.
- this is really a good point to talk about. In a big country, the cultures are different. certainly, there are

similarities. however, the focus shall be put on Differences.

8.Build the organizational trust
- it takes a whole lot to build trust in human relationship. if you look at people as individual cells, dont you

think that the organ that the cells made up shall not build its “organic” trust? it’s a bottom-up perspective…

very useful

9. Have local management leader is really important.
- do not treat it like a branch but an ‘entity’ that operates independently and colaborate with headquarters and

other offices… example? google and youtube…

10. Plan to go back to China? Or NOT?
- David has not changed his mind not going back to China yet. I don’t think he will. However, he will face a lot of

challenges. He will face it and deal with them well.

exmaple for you

there was this company set up their office in China. A team has been recruited and built up, primarily engineers

and support people. Local management team has yet to be built. After some time, a manager was hired with 1M salary. OVernight, the engineers under the managers stopped working.

why? the engineers are the ones working and now someone is hired with so much higher salary to oversee them. they are not happy about it.

what is AAMA?
Check it out at http://www.aamasv.com/home_flash.php



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