Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

We All Know The Real Work Gets Done At Night

For the past 3 days, I have been

1) spending the day in boring mind-numbing meetings
2) spending the nights schmoozing and networking with the folk from the meetings.

Actually, my main objective was point 2, point 1 was just a necessary evil. My peers from all over Asia were in town for a regional meeting, and in order to score brownie points - I became their tour guide and driver all rolled into one. When a person becomes totally dependant on you for food, fun and booze - they can’t help but become a good good friend.

So the result is that everybody now fully supports me and I’m welcome anytime in their countries - a great achievement judging from the previous cold receptions I got the last time I visited them.

GuanXi - you just can’t live without it.

indeed, GuanXi - you just can’t live without it.

Guanxi will not help u to cover your weaknesses, guanxi is just prolong the time to buy you more time to improve your weaknesses. A strong Guanxi given that a high tolerant that your counter part are given to you.

Ah…. yen jiu, yen jiu = discussion, study also sound like smokes and booze. Cannot be ignored if you do biz in china

of course when they are dependent on food and fun, they’ll be eating out of your hand. but when you go back to their country it’s a 50/50 whether they’ll reciprocate. good luck!

Hey can ask where u bring your peers around. Want to have a general idea what are the places.