http://www.jasoninch.com Business Consultant, Writer, and Professional Speaker Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:02:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have become something of a regular contributor to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai's bimonthly newsletter. In the most recent edition, which can be found online now in Flash format or downloaded as a PDF, I am again in the Reflection column on the final page. This issue's theme ... http://www.jasoninch.com/employment-in-china-new-article-from-canchams-may-june-emag-online-now/ I will be speaking at a number of events in the next month. Most of these events directly concern the Supertrends book, but one, on sustainable business, will draw on my experience as an cleantech consultant to focus on China's current environmental and sustainable development challenges and opportunites. April 23 - ... http://www.jasoninch.com/upcoming-presentations-in-the-shanghai-area/ The most recent article I have written is out in the new CanCham March / April newsletter.  My article, "Shanghai's Great Expectations: Can the World Expo 2010 Revive a Depressed Economy?" is on page 8 in the Special Focus section. The overall topic of this issue of the newsletter is in ... http://www.jasoninch.com/2010-shanghai-world-expo-vs-2005-aichi-expo-latest-cancham-article/ Watching Barack Obama's Inauguration on January 20th, after midnight as many were from China, I was waiting for some key statements about his plans for a long-term solution to the interrelated issues of oil dependence, geopolitical conflict, and global warming. He gave few specific details, but the following statements stand out, ... http://www.jasoninch.com/cleantech-powers-the-new-economy-part-2/ I recently wrote an article for the Shanghai Canadian Chamber of Commerce's bimonthly eMag newsletter, titled "Cleantech Powers the New Economy: The Global Financial Crisis Provides an Opportunity to Invest in Green Technology." The newsletter is available on their website, but I wanted to quote a few passages here for those ... http://www.jasoninch.com/cleantech-powers-the-new-economy-part-1/ The extraordinary events in global financial markets - the US subprime crisis, the collapse of banks, stocks plummeting - inspired me to write a blog post over at China Supertrends: Can China's economy save the world's? Having experienced the Asia Financial Crisis of 1997 as an entrepreneur with my own trading ... http://www.jasoninch.com/no-man-is-an-island-opinion-piece-in-the-shanghai-daily/ Have you ever seen the magnificent Commencement address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University in 2005?  If not, check it out (text and video).  In the speech, he covered several themes, one of which I want to focus on here:  Connecting the dots. There was a time in my life when ... http://www.jasoninch.com/reach-out-and-touch-someone/ My latest column from the Shanghai Star Business Journal is now online at China Supertrends. The post is called "Starting a Business in China: Things foreigners need to know" and contains some of the interesting takeaways from a seminar I attended last month in Shanghai hosted by China Entrepreneurs, a ... http://www.jasoninch.com/entrepreneurship-and-visas-in-china/ Did you know, Chinese people, firms, and overseas individuals, companies and governments, raised more than 14,000,000,000 yuan as of May 21, just ten days after the Sichuan earthquake? That's 2 billion US dollars. 20 days after the earthquake, total donations have more than doubled, to about 5.7 billion US dollars. ... http://www.jasoninch.com/foreign-company-earthquake-donations-in-the-news/ I had originally planned to write the first post in a few days, on my official four year anniversary in China, but since this blog has just gone online today, June 1 2008, it seems close enough and is also, to me, an easier-to-remember date. Although I first visited China in 2003 as an ... http://www.jasoninch.com/four-years-in-china/