CHAPTER 4

Stepping Up

Leading Others as a Foreigner in China

Dragon Suits are corporate champions in their respective leagues. By the time I interviewed the expat mangers featured in this book, served as their executive coach, or trained their teams, they had overcome countless barriers and hurdles, both physical and mental. By personality, performance, and politics, they had been earmarked for international careers. Unlike most of their colleagues, they had been offered expat jobs. Unlike countless unsung heroes of family and patriotic duties, they had accepted. They had taken farewells, boarded, arrived, unpacked, logged in, rolled up their sleeves, solved problems, hired some, fired others, said goodbye to those who left willingly or otherwise, ...

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