The author's personal experience as he built and ran a half billion dollar business in China serves as the background for this page turner. It describes both the trials and tribulations of living there and the rewards of successfully adapting and navigating through the intricacies of the Chinese culture. The book is written in an entertaining story format. It provides deep insights into Chinese culture that are brought to life through the use of simple Vignettes of his and his family's experiences and day to day living in China. Those vignettes provide in-depth insights that help explain how the Chinese view and approach life, business and each other and, most important, it helps provide an understanding of what it takes for foreigners to survive and thrive there. China Business is a must read for anyone doing business or planning to do business in China. It provides a little something for everyone. - A business person interested in doing business in China can learn the essentials of Chinese culture and the trials and tribulations he or she will likely face there. Within that, the author describes how he worked through those challenges and resolved problems that were uniquely Chinese. - The book describes how to build, deploy and successfully deliver a strategy utilizing systems to compensate for lack of business experience. Anyone interested in building a team or developing and executing a strategy can learn how the author led a team of new university graduates with absolutely no business experience to build the business and grow it by 1,200% in three years. - The concepts covered around building teams, developing and delivering a robust business strategy are not unique to doing business in China but can be useful to any business anywhere.- For an expatriate family, the book provides insights into day to day experiences and covers a wide range of cultural issues that foreigners need to be aware of and will likely experience in some way, shape or form. - The book provides perspective about life in China with interesting anecdotes about how expatriates can make the best of their experience and succeed in such assignments. - Finally, for everyone else, this book provides an easy read that is both interesting and intellectually stimulating. It offers a different type of read than the usual.
About the Author: The author, Saba Joseph, has a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. and has participated in a wide range of Executive training programs at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, University of Tennessee, University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is married. His wife of 33 years, Nancy, and his two adult Children, John and Elizabeth who were teenagers at the time, moved with him to China and helped shape the personal experiences described in this book. His career included 24 years with a top rated Fortune 500 consumer products company, 7 years with a direct mail marketing company and 4 years to date running his own consulting firm, The Joseph Group. He has and continues to consult for a broad range of clients including China JV's, Manufacturing arms of small to mid-size businesses and Venture Capital firms where he specializes in turnaround situations for new acquisitions. He is also active in M.I.T.'s Northern California New Venture Mentoring Program. He helps young entrepreneurs convert their ideas and business concepts into business realities. He enjoys teaching and sharing his knowledge, developing management talent, coaching executives and helping people succeed and achieve their best. He has unique and interesting perspectives and an uncanny ability to work effectively with people. He is just as much "at home" on the factory floor as he is in the Board Room. E-mail - saba.joseph@yahoo.com Link - http: //www.linkedin.com/in/sabajoseph