This article originally appeared in Forbes China in September 2011.
I was conducting a workshop in Beijing with a well-known European company. The participants were middle-managers who were selected because of their high potential. One man, an IT team leader, said that the primary job of a leader was to achieve technical and functional results. "It is the job of the Human Resources Department to worry about the people," he said. Some of the others in the workshop agreed.
(A version of this article appeared in Chinese in CHO Magazine in November 2006)
I believe this is the first blog devoted entirely to business leadership in China. I have been living and working in China for the past eight years. For the past four years, I have devoted myself exclusively to the development of business executives in China. This blog is another step in that direction.