Chinese companies don’t innovate
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
February 24, 2026 • by David Bach in Podcasts • Podcast available
Chinese auto startup NIO went from zero to nearly a million customers in under ten years. Mark Zhou, who leads product and R&D, discusses how; and explains why community – not hardware...
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With the help of some of the world’s leading academics and executives, Professor Michael Wade turns six “accepted truths” on their heads.
March 25, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
March 18, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....
March 8, 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Podcasts • 1 min read • Podcast available
The corporate world is full of platitudes about management and leadership that form a kind of accepted wisdom about how things are done in business....
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