With an average daily circulation of 300,000 and 12 million daily hits to its website, China Daily is China’s largest English language newspaper and a key opinion former*. Steve caught up with China Daily in Beijing in October to debate where the reset global worlds leaves Chinese and global CEOs with journalist Andrew Moody.
From research for “The Secrets of CEOs”, Steve’s found that most Western CEOs are struggling: as he told Andrew,
“Western CEOs are pretty good at delivering short-term results for shareholders, but what they aren’t good at is basically having an ambition to create a great business. They aren’t naturally innovative”.
In contrast, working with and interviewing Asian CEOs, Steve and the Xinfu team have found that many
“…Indian and Chinese CEOs are very mission-driven and are very entrepreneurial. They have an ambition to build a great business. They also tend to have this characteristic of building great teams around them, close-knit groups, which in Chinese terms is similar to having a family around you.”
Read the full article on what Eastern and Western CEOs can learn from each other, their common challenge with work-life balance and how the best are developing the talents in their business here.
*Source: China Daily website, “About China Daily“.
