In their verdicts about China's talent pool, I see a remarkable change towards a positive assessments, compared with the first decades of China's development. This is what Irv Beiman writes in his latest column for Chinabiz:
My prediction: During the next ten years China will experience a dramatic improvement in strategic management. This will build on tangible improvements in
national infrastructure and intangible improvements in organizational infrastructure that are being put into place. There will be an increasing emphasis on defining strategic objectives via strategy maps, measuring progress toward those objectives via balanced scorecards, and using a consistent high quality strategic management process to drive the activities and adjustments necessary for success.
He is reacting on an earlier piece by IMD-professor Bill Fischer, who wrote:
This is all about the Power of Soft-Power, and, ironically, although we've often spoken, in this column, of the unrelenting economic burden of China's vast population; when it comes to soft power, this same vast population becomes a reservoir of ideas, ambition, and talent. In this revolution, it's the individual that is the engine of the Sinocization of our future. What a reversal of fortune and perception: Chairman Mao used to speak of the singular power of China's masses, but what we're seeing here is the massive power of single Chinese.
Over the weekend I had a meeting with a seasoned HR-director with a long-term experience in China. His major challenge, it has been said here before, is dealing with the headquarters in trying to explain why he is doing the things his way in China.
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