See Rita’s great pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/notasia/sets/72157650566162696/ CARTAGENA–One of the reasons I wanted to come to Cartagena is that I have never been to the continent of South America. I’ve been to the other five inhabited continents, but not this one. So on my personal bucket list, getting to all six inhabited continents accomplishes a life […]…
About: William Holstein
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An Important New Book on China
I worked on this project for much of 2014 and am delighted that it has resulted in the sixth book that I have written or edited. It’s important because it captures one of those historic moments in which we in the West recognize that we may have fundamentally misjudged China’s direction. The book is now […]…
The Riddle of Backshoring
Everyone is preoccupied with terrorism at the moment, but this was a very important story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It seems that if we want American companies to bring home their manufacturing from China, we have to pay attention to the entire supply chain that they need to make their products on U.S. […]…
How to Bite the ERP Bullet
Repost of author’s article from Chief Executive | January 9, 2015 by: William J. Holstein CEOs need to merge their disparate IT systems to keep growing—but must do so carefully. The cloud can help. WHEN JANNA RONERT, ORIGINALLY A FARM GIRL FROM NEBRASKA, founded Image Skin Care company 11 years ago in Palm Beach, Florida, […]…
East Asia Watch: The Ideological Winds of China
Something is happening in China that I haven’t seen since I first started covering it in 1979, some 35 years ago. President Xi Jinping is either starting or encouraging the start of a Maoist-style ideological campaign against Western-inspired professors, journalists, intellectuals and others who advocate human rights or political pluralism. This is exactly what Mao […]…
