I'll say American, or Western business culture has a lot of "non-problems." To even imagine what makes a "problem" to a rich Western multinational, one has to put up some effort.

I'm not a fan of S. Jobs, but generally approve of ways how he reanimated Apple Computers. A lot of commons sense based decision making in corporate structure, and HR policy. For one, he fired a lot of business degree holders from running actual engineering units — an issue of "inversion," I think is what the prime majority of big tech companies suffer from, and can't do a thing about.

Remembering that, I can only continue to laud and appraise what it is the mainstream Chinese way of running a tech company. I was dealing with Chinese electronics since my first job in a trade company in Singapore 12 years ago. Just how freaking efficient they are. This baffled me 12 years ago, and it still does today.

Nowhere but in China, you can have "signed contract in the morning, widgets in the evening." Rather sizeable collectives of up to 100 men are running here without a single "business" degree holder except of a single accountant/tax filler. Such companies run almost like as if they were a computer program, except they exist in real world.

If I am asked to summarise what that malaise is that ails Western business in a single sentence it is "Western business culture is not about doing business."

Too artsy, too talkshopy, too much "empty thinking," some people don't even know what they are supposed to do — if I take upon Jiang Zemin's style of a maxim statement.