Infographics is a new phenomenon driven by the sheer volume of data that is available on the internet.

Conflict is rife in the office environment right now, as players jockey for position.

No one wanted to be on the redundancy list last time around, and no one wants to be on the list next time round.

Do It Right! Extrusion never did make a connection to the Purchasing Director of Aluminum Windows. Business would drift lower, and no one would be able to identify a specific causation. Everyone agreed it was probably the economy.

A world away, in the next room, John Q. Gladwell had been working away quietly on his laptop.

First, he opened his connections page on Linkedin and went to ‘Remove Connections’. One by one he disconnected from everyone in Do It Right! Extrusion.

Back in her corner office, the marketing director, Patsy Cline, vaguely remembered an introduction request from someone who wanted to contact the Aluminum Windows Purchasing Director. So Patsy knew the Purchasing Director should be in her LinkedIn network. When she checked Linkedin, she couldn’t find anyone in purchasing in Aluminum Windows, and only a few people in the company at all.

In retrospect, few people had paid much attention to the departure of John Q. Gladwell from Do It Right! Extrusion (DIRE).

It’s difficult to put your best foot forward when your China hiring report is released as a major financial institution has just gone into a major meltdown.

Such is life.

According to the Shanghai Labor and Social Security Bureau, any foreigner holding a permanent-residency (PR) permit will soon be included in the ‘4 Funds’ system ie. Shanghai’s social safety net.

It’s the new email spam or, should I say, social scam (don’t click on the link, just roll over it). And yes, I am pointing fingers here. The ‘Mea Culpa’ is that I got caught too. My ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’ is that I should have known better.
And so, better late than never, on to the [...]

They sound like a very exciting new investment opportunity. Gold Farms …. ah yes!, a place where rich farmers cultivate more wealth than you can possibly imagine.
In reality, they are small, grotty internet cafes where young Chinese ‘farmers’, sometimes real farmers, work 12 hours a day, playing games.
Yes, you heard me right. Playing games.
This phenomenon is a [...]