Problem No 3 with American MLM companies

There is a gap in the sense of timing or the speed of response time between American management and Asian management. For every ex Asian manager or staff of American companies that I have spoken to, they all agree that Asian people work harder, faster and longer hours than the Americans to produce faster results. It is of general opinion that American companies have management that is smarter and more effective than their Asian counterparts and therefore may be justified to work less hard, slower and shorter hours. However if you talk to experienced Asian managers or staff working with American companies, 9 out of 10 of them may beg to differ from the general opinion. As America outsource its labor intensive work to the Asian countries, there may perhaps be inadequate outsourcing of management responsibilities to these same Asian countries. As a consequence, one may get the same result of the Vietnam war where American generals would blame the politicians in Washington DC for being the ones commanding the war as opposed to the generals on the ground. Add in the cultural gap factor as previously mentioned in the management of American MLM companies, the managers of departments who try to macro and micro manage Asian markets from their US corporate headquarters can only create a disaster as bad or worse than the Vietnam war. In some parts of Asia where failed businessmen can take their own lives due to the loss of face for providing for their families, it is not too far fetched a comparison. Business is everything to the Asian family and so is speed and the timing of things.

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