One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China (Paperback)
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Description
Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products, but as former Wall Street Journal China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive James McGregor explains, business in China is never quite what it seems. One Billion Customers offers compelling narratives of personalities, business deals, and lessons learned, creating a coherent pictures of China's emergence as a global economic power with a dog-eat-dog business climate that has turned bureaucrats into billionaires and left many foreign business executives with their pockets turned inside out.
About the Author
James McGregor is well known and respected in Chinese business, political, and media circles. A Mandarin speaker, he has served as a key adviser to both the U.S. and Chinese governments. As The Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, the chief executive of Dow Jones' China business operations during much of the roaring 1990s, and a venture-capital investor during China's dotcom boom, McGregor has negotiated every avenue of the labyrinth that is business in China. He is also a former chairman and a decade-long governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He is a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations; National Committee on US-China Relations; International Council of the Asia Society; and serves on a variety of China-related advisory boards. He and his family live in Beijing.
Praise for One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China…
"This is a defining book on how to, and how not to, do business in China. Jim McGregor brings to life the stories of the pioneering American entrepreneurs who, through their efforts, expertise and errors, blazed the trails for the broader business community in one of the world's most important markets. I strongly recommend it as must-reading for anyone with a stake, an interest or a dream in China."
-- Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
"James McGregor's knowledge of how business is done in China is extraordinary. As a journalist and businessman, he witnessed firsthand China's remarkable transformation in the space of two decades from a backward country to a rising economic power. With his extensive hands-on experience in China and his formidable storytelling skills, his book, One Billion Customers, is filled with valuable insights and advice for both knowledgeable business persons and ordinary readers interested in gaining a better understanding of China's rapidly developing market economy."
-- Dr. Henry Kissinger
"What makes James McGregor's book such absorbing reading is that he asks the really big questions about China's current economic boom: Who are China's new entrepreneurs and how did they get so rich? How independent are they from their own government and bureaucracy? And how and to what extent can Western companies partake of China's new found wealth? He gives his answers in a series of lively and admirably detailed case studies of the Chinese business world which make one smile and sigh at the same time."
-- Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and author of The Search for Modern China
