8:06 p.m. - 2005-12-07
Know the Chinese System
I admit it. I do not know the Chinese system. I have only been here for about 18 months and I have been immersed in my classes and busy with my family, so I have not spent a great deal of time figuring out how to do business in China. I never thought it would be necessary.
I was wrong.
I have discovered that in order to get things done. Anything that you want, all you have to do is do it the Chinese way. It may not seem to be working but it is. It is just a whole new way of doing things for me.
So, I have my little project and I have taken it through the chain of command, the official line of inquiry so to speak. Now I find myself going through the unofficial chain of command, or the guanxi line. This is where I find the person who I can properly flatter into wanting me to do what I want to do and to work his way up the line to flattering those above that he "found" me and can lay claim to the ideas of what I want to do. So I know who to go to, now I just need to figure out how to word it so that I can see it through.
If I knew how, I might just be able to buy him some beer and a girl and that would be the end. But I don't know how, so I have to stumble through and step on my tongue and shove my foot in my mouth a few times while I figure this out.
I don't even know who to go to in order to ask how to properly word something in order to get what I want.
Oh well, If I don't get what I want there is always another way!
If anyone knows any good books that they could recommend on how to properly work the system I would be grateful!
Anyway, have a wonderful day.
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