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Zak Dychtwald

Zak Dychtwald

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Oct 5, 2026

22:12
You know,
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hard work is the answer to everything.
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It is it's pretty universal.
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It feels particularly exaggerated here in China.
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I would say that the last five to 10 years, I've watched folks in China become more involved in the global conversation around what is a life for.
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So I can give you a really concrete example.
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In 2014, I went down to Guangzhou to interview this founder of a company called Chaoji Kecheng Biao.

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But what about semiconductor CEOs? What would be your advice to them on building teams here, doing local for local, whatever the themes are?
3:47
because no one knows what to decide what, or who decides what, where would you tell them to start?
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So there's two things that come up most often, and they're often the easiest.
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You know, I'm gonna say three things.
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First, build a vocabulary around global bridge work.
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Start to talk about bridging within your organization.
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Phase one is people need to share a vocabulary around this.
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They need to understand that there's market skills, there's bridge skills, there's market work, there's bridge work.
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Please tell us about that framework.
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What did the data actually say? How did that lead you to the conclusion that collaboration breaks down at the level of systems, not culture?
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So a, a little background here, Todd.
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We used to not do any team work, any inter-teamwork between organizations.
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So my background is I was doing a, a good amount of strategy work, um, with large organizations, as well as working with investors, helping them understand China in a way that was actionable and approachable.
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Um, what happened, though, and this is around 2021, is that one of our clients kept saying, "Look, the strategy is good.
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We can't execute across our global teams.
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Can you help us?" And me, being the very savvy business opportunist, said, "No.

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Mm-hmm
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The future of the Chinese economy lies in innovation, and everybody knows it.
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And the question that I often get asked is, well, can China innovate? I've spent most of my adult life in China.
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We may be asking entirely the wrong question.
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It's less China's ability to innovate.
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It's less the sort of heroes of innovation, the people at the heads of industry.
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and far more about the average person.

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