It's no easy task for a Chinese company to acquire an American one. I learned this recently when I spoke with Gina Qiao, senior vice president of global HR at Lenovo — the world's No. 1 seller of PCs — and her colleague, Yolanda Conyers, chief diversity officer and VP of global HR operations. The pair recently co-authored a book this year titled “The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance” about the process of acquiring IBM's personal computer business in 2005. And boy, were there complications. Here were just a few, and how they resolved them: The meeting-request dilemma Soon…
The Lenovo WaySeptember 10, 2014