It is getting warm here again. Temperatures in the low 80's with humidity varying between awesome and awful: 40-85%. This will be our third summer behind the Great Firewall, the Largest Market, and a host of other deserving superlatives both positive and negative.
From car wash, to high-end detailing car care, to education consultancy, to summer education program to HR consultancy, to management consultancy to financial advisory firm in 26 months.
I sit in an apartment now, 50 stories above a maddeningly busy free trade port and international border. I get out of bed at a reasonable 8 am, have coffee and cereal across the table with Olivier, check emails, news, last nights sports scores. We create an attack plan for the day, usually someone has meetings in Hong Kong, I am still getting my financial sea-legs and as a result go through exercises with our clients books, draft memo's for clients and the internal team, and have a couple episodes of Family Guy or American Dad ready for when lunch arrives.
We worry about visas, our status as guests in this country are never certain, and we quietly talk about our fears as a small company/family out here. We stress over the ineptitude of various systems out here, a lack of professionalism on both sides of the coin, and a desire to be successful for our clients' sake and our own universal well-being.
Temperament, patience, diligence, professional demeanor, personal obligation, and disciprine.... payoff. If you do everything right, it will not always work. A scary thought
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