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We can learn a lot from crime movies, e.g. leadership, and enterprising. Actually, God Father is not about gangster, it’s about politics. Other spontaneous crime is more violence than cerebral, for example Tsotsi, and City of God. The problem of … Continue reading →

Real jokes from those entrepreneurs: PhD <=> Illiteracy From illiteracy to PhD is easy, but from PhD to illiteracy is difficult. (Shaping a habit somewhat easier than breaking old one by Nicolas Xu), or the chain of habit is too … Continue reading →

Here are some facts I took back from Harvard China Forum 2011. In China, there are: 1) 5 state owned giant banks 2) 120 province and city level banks 3) 3,000 rural credit cooperatives 90% bank income is from interest … Continue reading →

After visiting the HQ of 20 billion dollar retail giant, I have to confess: It’s nothing but miracle, organizational, managerial, technological and anthropological miracle.  Here is my poem about TJ Maxx: My Heaven I was happy in Wal-Mart, since I … Continue reading →

So what do they have in common? This graph shows They occupy totally different space on this map, but here are their similarities: 1) Harley-Davidson and Jesus Christ both have significant emotional benefits (only to some people) 2) They all … Continue reading →

We can use a vector (functionality, emotional benefits, price) to represent a product on this graph. Given a magnitude from 0 to 10, we can say Harley-Davidson = (5, 10, 10), Honda CBR1000 = (10, 8, 8), but we can’t … Continue reading →

I heard of Harley-Davidson back in China, but never buy one, since it’s over priced and low quality. Isn’t Honda CBR1000 a much better product? In Boston, what I saw just confirmed my dislike about Harley: 1) HD is so … Continue reading →