I just gave a 2 hours lecture for Beijing University, Guanghua School of Management, for a UK program of top business executives – 6 June. Small team but very interactive, they seemed much awake and had a good laugh with my (irreverent) insight in the Beijing Olympics, Chinese attitudes and doing business in China.

Another recent (and rather long) seminar was done for a large EMBA delegation, on 10 May, in News Plaza Hotel. This time, from the IPADE Business School – Mexico. Another enthusiastic group.

As I mention in my seminars, there’s a lot of wrong information in the press. Part is due to the poor PR of the Beijing officials.
The latest excess is from the Geneva-based “Center on Housing Rights and Evictions”, a so-called “rights group”. They just came up with this nonsense:
“It is shocking and entirely unacceptable that 1.25 million people have already been displaced in Beijing, in preparation for the 2008 Games, in flagrant violation of their right to adequate housing” (they expect it to climb to 1.5 million!).
In what planet are those people living? Do they even know where is Beijing? Well, explains a lot. Now I know why Beijing is becoming so empty, hahaha. Or do they include all the people who have been (happily) house hopping?
They better come and listen to my seminars. I am not exactly sugar-coating 2008 (to put it mildly) and that topic is addressed in my overview – including the Dongsi Batiao Hutong story. Oh yes, if they want to listen to me, I do charge MONEY. I am a real capitalist, sorry for that, nobody is perfect.