I would like to finish the sentence:

Why Chinese managers make better economic sense than expatriate ones, and why the cheap is cheap and the expensive is expensive.

My sentence maybe is a little hard, but the title of the article is even harder.

I always say: good people (professional, hardworking people…) are hard to find, in any country and bad people (cheaters, liars, proffesional deceivers…) are easy to find everywhere.

I would like to see more articles in the line of: We work with the best, we do not care from where they are better than we work with the chinese, because they are better than the foreigners.

Best Regards

Just because Jack used the USD to demonstrate the issue isn’t really the point. It could just as well been E100. The issue was he felt that Chinese managers have a better fundamental grasp of the value and true purchasing power of the RMB that Westerners find diffficult to grasp, and that reflects a fairly serious weakness in the overall makeup of the expatriate manager in China. Naturally, there are exceptions.

Concerning point 3, I don’t really understand what you’re getting at in the context of this article, other than to say that spending RMB10 on a haircut I think probably shows they care more about the value of the RMB than if they spent RMB60 on one. The point is – whats the difference? One is RMB50 more than the other. Do that enough in business across the board – and maybe you’ll save up enough to buy a Ferrari.

For other issues concerning Jacks business – I would recommend getting hold of a copy of his book. It’s had great reviews, and is an interesting read. We posted the link to the website all about it in the main article, and there is an “Ask Jack” facility there if you want to submit Q&A to him.

1. “Jack Perkowski employs about 2,500 people. Out of those, about 12 are expatriates. ”

Out of these, for the management part: how many are expats, if so why? How many lived or were educated abroad for a long period of time, if so why? Is the majority of the 2500 low level workers? If so, is anyone in their right one would have employed expats in the first place?

2. Not all foreigners are American. Perhaps it’s Jack’s perspective that is lacking.

3. There are more rich Chinese now in China than expats. That’s for sure and I see far more ferrori and porsche here than I have seen ever before in my life, including Europe and the USA. Luxury is already here so your above argument is already defunct. I’d say that if they spend 10RMB and not 30RMB is because they dont care about this aspect as much as a foreigner might. IF they care, they might spend 60RMB.