Last day in China: Sightseeing

Last day in China: Sightseeing

Despite all of the bad news coming out of China these days re: pollution and the stock market, the weather was perfect– clear and even warmer than Boston. The bus arrived on time and with our guide in tow, brought everyone to the Great Wall and Forbidden City. Day off tonight and tomorrow morning, leaving people time to customize their last few hours in Beijing! We’re leaving for home Saturday. Thank you reading this Blog.

As I do every year, our client likes me to summarize the past 12 months in an annual letter. I’ll include a portion of the 2016 edition below.

See you in March for our next program, featuring company visits in Beijing and Hong Kong!

Sincerely,

Greg

I am honored, for the sixth year in a row, to have an opportunity to write the Preface, for this special CCAFM magazine edition. During the past twelve months of time— the date of our last journey to Beijing— the collective amount of emails, phone calls and feedback sessions has been singularly impressive. This year, however, there was an additional trip to China in August, when I was honored to be the Keynote Speaker at three CCAFM sponsored events on Managerial Accounting and International Entrepreneurship.

It’s very exciting to see our 13-year partnership continue to evolve. This year more than ever, the students took a true leadership role, corresponding directly with the CCAFM consultants nearly once every 2-3 weeks. These are multi-faceted relationships, which have now extended from the senior leadership posts down to the individual consultants. Congratulations to all on a job well done.

In conclusion, I’ll once again remind everyone that there’s no such thing as running a successful business on “cruise control.” Any local, state, regional, or international business has too many moving parts, and cutthroat competition, so none of us ever has a prolonged opportunity to simply stop and wait for instructions. But the phrase ‘cream rises to the top’ continues to be so very true, as quality and hard work will distance a competent manager from any hard charging competitor.

Win, lose or draw regarding the 2015 ICP Asia work critique, a heartfelt thank you to everyone, for another fine year of cooperation. As always, we look forward to continue deepening our friendship, improving our collective work, and most importantly, to another 13 years of partnership! Thank you again for this truly unique opportunity.