Global Workplace Success Blog with Pat Tith

Well the big show is over in Beijing. Being a “China” person I was fascinated by it all.

My first encounter with China was from a vantage point in the New Territories of Hong Kong. In those days you could only look at China in the distance over a duck farm. I was told, “there is China” …all I could see were foothills. I remember feeling so frustrated. I told myself at that moment that I would get to China one day.

I made that pledge many years ago and am happy to report I have been to China 12 times both living and working there, as well as traveling all over the country by train. I experienced the sleeping giant while it was still asleep for the first time in 1979. That was a very special moment in time.

BUT those times have changed and the sleeping giant is no longer sleeping in case you hadn’t notice. All hosting nations to the Olympics are like coming out parties. This coming out party was unlike any the world has ever seen, or for that matter will ever see again. China was out to prove to the world that it was back BIG TIME. It was a major investment in its future.

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