Jack moved to Beijing and eventually set up his own manufacturing business, ASIMCO.Today,the company has an annual turnover of over $500 million and employs more than twelve thousand people in seventeen plants across eight provinces.But it wasn't all plain sailing and in Managing the Dragon Jack recalls how he gambled all he had to create a new life for himself halfway across the world.

Jack Perkowski was a working'class kid who made good-very good. But following a highly successful career on Wall Street, Jack felt he needed a new challenge. Having decided that China would be the future, he set about investigating this little-known market and the business opportunities it offered.

In the early 1990s, Jack moved to Beijing and eventually set up his own manufacturing business, ASIMCO.Today,the company has an annual turnover of over $500 million and employs more than twelve thousand people in seventeen plants across eight provinces.But it wasn't all plain sailing and in Managing the Dragon Jack recalls how he gambled all he had to create a new life for himself halfway across the world. Through his colourful narrative, he also tells of the mistakes he made,the many lessons he learned and how he faced the challenge of coping with China's many peculiarities,including its unique working practicesand rituals.

Told from the insider's point of view by one of today's most influential and pioneering entrepreneurs, Managing the Dragon offers a fresh perspective on a country at the dawn of a new age.

Introduction

Chapter 1 "Who Is Jack Perkowski?"

Chapter 2 Stay in New York or Move to Hong Kong?

Chapter 3 A Blank-Sheet Approach to China

Chapter 4 One Hundred Factories in Forty Cities

Chapter 5 Eating, Drinking, and Sleeping on the Long March

Chapter 6 Developing Our New China Management Strategy

Chapter 7 Closing China's Management Gap

Chapter 8 Guerrilla Warfare in Anhui

Chapter 9 A Peaceful Transition in Langfang

Chapter 10 An Election in Mao's Backyard

Chapter 11 Building for the Long Term

Chapter 12 Decentralization and China's Local Governments

Chapter 13 China's Different Cost Perspective

Chapter 14 China's Two Markets

Chapter 15 China's Technology Gap

Chapter 16 Establishing a Business in China

Chapter 17 Challenges of Running a Business in China Today

Chapter 18 "Where Is It All Headed?"

Acknowledgments

Index