I was in Hong Kong when I was asked to think about competition and collaboration between firms in a new market space such as electrified vehicle. HK is the ideal city to inspire ideas about collaboration. Indeed, Hong Kong was the nearby in-vivo model that demonstrated the power of the collaboration, citywide. As Paul Romer says, by [...]
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Creating more Hong Kongs for EV
Posted in Economy, Green Revolution, Sinosphere, Strategy & Management on March 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Submerging hindsight
Posted in Sinosphere, Strategy & Management on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Companies in emerging (or shall I say submerging) markets are facing two tremendous challenges: the prevalence of institutional lacunae and new class of agile, fast-growing new entrants that are going global. In developed economies in the western world, market institutions facilitate the smooth flows of product, capital and labor, but in emerging markets, by contrast, many of intermediary [...]
Vamos 2009
Posted in Economy, Green Revolution, Sinosphere, Strategy & Management, Thought Food, Vie Culturelle, tagged best of on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols opens with 44 aphorisms. Four “Questions of Conscience” as an illustration of my favourite 2008 thoughts I wrote this year: You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be the fugitive. First question of conscience. Sichuan Earthquake: Billions of Yuan were [...]