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Frameworks (Scales (Low, mid, high-end mkts (Fight for middle in China…
Frameworks
Scales
Macro v.s. Micro
Low, mid, high-end mkts
Fight for middle in China
Why?
Low end wants to upgrade but lacks deep know-how
High-end cannot meet price pts at low-end
R&D spending
Cultural impact to business
National collectivism <-> Integral/Vertical structures
Eastern v.s. Western cultures
How to respond to praise
Chinese: Deflecting praise
差得远呢
你不嫌弃
过奖了,我的中文还有很大的进步空间
Western: Accepting it, praise other person
Are you looking at the mirror or at me
Yes, the genie granted my wish
Look who's talking
Ask why?
What do you particularly like about my ...?
Share more about who helped me or how much effort I put in
I really enjoyed it
I'm glad it worked out so well
I'm happy to help
That really means a lot
I appreciate you noticing it, no one has before
Thank you for saying that I'm a great... That's about the nicest thing you can say to a ...
Mind-oriented v.s. virtue-oriented
Reviewers from China extremely critical, US positive & encouraging
Two conflicting trends/mixed outcome
Chinese citizens wealthier
Rise of non-communicable diseases met with underprescription
Chinese gov has to cap price for essential drug list to maintain affordability for lower income
Change due to time
Cycle of modularisation & vertical integration
Lessons from science to biz
Biology & Fitness Landscape
Problems
Single steep peak reps superior strategy
Complex systems in both fields have random landscapes of peaks & troughs, not STATIC
Fog of future: so many variables in play
visibility in volatile markets
Solutions
Evolutionary search never sits still, genes subject to mutation & recombination
Cultivate evolving pop of strategies
Expeditions should always be on move to find new directions upwards
Parallelism: Never have entire expedition exploring same region
Devote resources to riskier experiments further afield as they contained seeds of success in unimaginable future
Create options/open up new choices
Option value
Use VC metrics, not just profitability & ROI
3Ms: Market acceptance, Market Cap, Milestone meetings
Link various sessions together, find underlying themes or patterns
HK Deep Dive
People's background & talent they prefer
Intrinsic v.s. extrinsic factors
Set extremes & describe how subject doesn't embody both
Different contexts