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Leaders At Alibaba, Youku, And Baidu Are Slowly Shaking Up China’s Corporate Culture (fastcompany)
Three top Chinese tech companies–Alibaba, Baidu, and YouKu–are remaking the
country’s moribund, hierarchical corporate culture with an injection of new
ideas from the West.
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**What is the sound of three hands clapping?** I found out at noon on a
Thursday in September, while walking through the headquarters of the
e-commerce titan Alibaba in Hangzhou, China. On the fourth floor, a massive
work space is filled with hundreds of headset-equipped salespeople sitting
under yard after yard of fluorescent lighting. This is Alibaba’s army of cold
callers. They telephone clients who have storefronts on the website, urging
them to buy keyword advertising or to pay to boost their online rankings. Each
salesperson inhabits a cubicle furnished with a desk, a plastic sunflower, and
a mirror–the last a reminder to smile, because it’s an …
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