Bill Fischer, a professor at IMD in Switzerland, is on top of the narrative change in the Chinese economy.

The US versus China in one single graphic. Use your bull&*^t detector (nose) though because a simple comparison can hide as much as it illustrates.

Human resources professionals are generally not strong in technical or economic analysis, even though the impact of these areas on HR outcomes is high.

Up until now salary inflation was the relatively simple matter of HR professionals dealing with the salary demands of other in-house professionals. Chinese professionals have privately and individually fought for, and gained, significant increases in salary over the last 10 years. They have the technical and negotiations skills to do this, and the perfect environment; an economy that has grown 9% per year for 10 years.

Waiting is not a strategy. It’s not even an activity or task. It is what you end up with when you are stuck in the middle management layer of a bureaucratic company that thinks that waiting is value-added activity.

A view of the pecking order in companies from Bob Sutton.

excellent data that supports human resource’s efforts to understand where China’s workforce is going.

Honda is currently experiencing its first strike in China, and has shut 4 car assembly plants. The source of the problem is a parts plant that supplies to the other 4 plants.

As a shortfall country, China is going to offer even more opportunities in the future for skilled professionals than it does now.

Towers Watson recently surveyed the global workforce and has just come up with a 28-page report.