Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

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Power and Asian Business

The culmination of the Power in Business mini series. What it’s like doing business without the Rule of Law.

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How to Use Power

How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.

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What is Power?

Understanding how power works in business is necessary to understanding business in developing markets. A members-only mini series.

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Stan Slap on the Art of Building Effective Employee Cultures

Cedric talks to Stan Slap, international consultant to the Fortune 500, on a powerful, coherent model for shaping employee culture.

Under The Hood

How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.

Business Reality Without Frameworks

A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we learn from what’s come before.

What Process Improvement in Education Looks Like

What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should be able to do this in your own org contexts.

Businesses as Ecosystem Organisms

What we can learn from seeing businesses as organisms in an ecosystem ... using the particularly odd example of HEICO as the barnacle to TransDigm’s whale.

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The Hospitality Solution in Your Business

A look at the main provocation of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality: that you can solve (certain) business problems with hospitality, and that it only takes a little thoughtfulness to do so.

The Idea Maze is a Useless Idea

Product market fit is a crapshoot. Here's what's actually useful in the hunt for a new business idea.