The Year of the Dragon started with a roar for Morgan Cars in China. On the 1st Feb we moved into our new offices here in Beijing, and on the 6th Feb we submitted our our battery of documents for the 3 ministries for submission for the WOFE application. Once the WOFE, Malvern Morgan Cars [...]
Jennifer Thome of Agenda Magazine has created a special issue on entrepreneurship. As the co-founder and former President of Entrepreneur Organization Beijing Chapter, and current Communications Chair, she asked me for my thoughts on the matter. Completely unexpectedly, as I was looking rather bleary eyed in my view, they placed me on the cover. [...]
HE Mr & Mrs Sebastian Wood CMG were tempted behind the wheel of the Morgan Roadster at the Ambassadors Residence, Beijing, on the occasion of the Royal Wedding Party held on the 29th April.
Why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China I have noticed over the past 12 months a couple of trends which appear to be gathering pace, and an article by WPP CEO Shelly Lazarus in Ad Age prompted my thinking about why the American PR agency model doesn’t work in China. It is [...]
To be a successful PR company in China requires finding the best possible people, training them and giving them experience to become better, and there is still a skill shortage for PR.
Today is my 43rd birthday. It is also the 4th anniversary of my arrival; the challenge of setting up an office in China for EASTWEST PR a sado masochistic ‘gift’ to myself. I wrote this poem after my first week here in my post entitled ‘Great Expectations’. My expectations haven’t been met in many ways but exceeded in others.
Over lunch an English friend of mine asked whether I had noticed anything different about how I was being looked at by Chinese people; I wasn’t sure that I had but it was one of many comments on the rising tension that is building up in Beijing as Chinese see foreigners as undermining their national [...]
