There are some insights here into how to maximize meetings. Warning: it includes a huge clock on the wall that counts down the minutes. Phew!
I can’t imagine how Chinese staff would react to this. There’s a long tradition of the meeting as a social event that came from the communist period. When I came […]
Archive for September, 2006
With National Week (October 1-7) and the Mid-Autumn Festival coinciding at the same time this year, we here in China are gearing up for a big week of travel, family, and ruining our diets eating those delicious mooncakes. (For those of you who don’t know, during the Mid-Autumn Festival it is traditional to give […]
We recently had some discussions on attitudes amongst university professors. Here’s a Youtube video of a professor with a very relaxed approach.
Ken Carroll
This is from Frank Fradella.
Great job, Frank.
Ken Carroll
Talk Talk China is an irreverent look at Chinese culture (to put it mildly). The deliberate cynicism can be over the top at times, but they can also be hysterically funny. I think these two recent posts “brown gold” and “the death list” are examples of how funny they can be, even if they are […]
We’re reviewed in Karriere Magazine today. If you read German, you can get the short version here, or you can run out and buy the magazine proper. The article is great - thorough, well-researched, and packed with details. And in order to make my day, they linked back - yeah! (They also review www.englishpod.com.)
Ken Carroll
John and I have been discussing a number of ideas on developing the audio lessons. In response I’ve written up a series of guidelines that I hope will help with that development. Here’s part of the first document I prepared. It might be of some interest.
Thus far, we have approached lesson content from the perspective […]
From Guy Kawasaki’s blog:
“To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.”—Edgar Bronfman [The Rich Are Different]
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Update:
Here’s an even better one from Groucho Marx:
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
Ken Carroll
Here’s an interview I did with Chris Gill from Interfax a couple of days ago about ChinesePod.
Ken Carroll
Who will explain the piggyback to me?
Published by September 29th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 14 Comments I’ve just come back from my evening stroll around Century Park. It’s a magnificent place to walk in the evenings as it’s rather quiet, except for some joggers and some couples. One thing I couldn’t help noticing recently has been a very high incidence of couples around here doing the piggybacking thing.
They do […]
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