On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Venkat Mangudi <[email protected]> wrote: > > My guess is that it gets worse going east. While at Singapore, it always > amazed me how completely incompetent people could become managers and > drive fear into their teams' heart. They were scared to even talk to > their managers. And it was worse in Seoul. Smokers used to hide the > cigarette they were smoking because his manager was around. And this was > at a LG company. I almost got into trouble because the CEO of the > company was seriously offended by me not offering him a smoke and then > later on lighting my own before his.
Memories, gotta love it..... The Far Easterners love hierarchy and tiny rituals and woe on those who break any of it. There are many instances but the earliest one that sticks in my memory was a country manager passing off my reports/work as his, upstream. BCC cured him and got me addicted to the 7am work style. In the few years that we did business across a spectrum of firms, i've rarely (actually never) seen a Japanese or Korean woman manager. Probably things have changed now. -- .
