John and Doris Naisbitt

Even Chinas harshest critics are beginning to admit the remarkable qualities of Chinas leadership in the fast evolution from a dirt poor country to a major global player in only 30 years? What enabled China to turn a demoralized, patronized and poorly educated workforce in a country of a billion people to become proactive and competitive?

China has reinvented itself as if it were a huge enterprise. It has developed leadership principles which are focusing on a change in thinking rather than detailed directives. The enterprise developed a culture which fit the demands of the enterprise and pointedthe workforce in the direction of modernity and wealth. Economically and politically Chinas leadership and its people have quickly moved from imitation to innovation.

The Chinese leadership model is context-oriented. It focuses more on the environment in which decisions are made than on having specific answers. Western seminars and trainings which for decades have been based exclusively on Western theories and practices could gain from exposure to the fresh and successful Chinese leadership model using the following subjects:

Emancipating minds for innovation and growth

Balancing top-down leadership with bottom-up initiatives

Establishing strategies and delegating implementation

Managing uncertainty through contextual leadership

Leveraging diversity to manage complexity

Developing global mindsets

Balancing personal and global paradoxes

Becoming a values-driven leader