SCALE UP - Global Talent Strategies Deep Dive

👉 How can a country producing 4M STEM graduates every year still see 45% unemployed after 12 months?👉 Why do companies receive 2,000+ applications per role yet lose half their hires before day one?👉 And most importantly—how do you build leaders in a system where “Senior Managers” often have title but not true succession readiness? It’s a landscape that feels part Bollywood blockbuster—high dram...

How did COVID trigger a $25B remote work revolution that rewrote six nations’ talent playbooks?🔹 Why do 85% of regional teams fail, while only 15% find the formula for long-term retention?🔹 And what separates companies burning $2M+ on failed hires from those achieving 85%+ retention in Southeast Asia’s hypercompetitive market? When Crazy Rich Asians gave the world its champagne-soaked view of Ma...

Many have asked me to write sth on the AIGC frenzy happening in China since my last post. So here it is, this time I am telling it like a story. When ChatGPT dropped in late 2022, Silicon Valley 🇺🇸 looked like Goliath—$5B+ poured into training GPT-4, a handful of fortress-like labs guarded by prestige PhDs. China 🇨🇳, meanwhile, seemed like David, locked out behind the Great Firewall. But then the...

When foreign companies ask me for suggestions for entering China's talent market, my usual answer is - try to partner or acquire something domestic, or go completely local. This one is for China 🇨🇳. With 11.8M university graduates annually—the largest talent pool on Earth—China’s job market is massive but uniquely volatile. Salaries in AI can spike 35% in just one quarter, and entire hiring landsc...