A Chinese business leader keeps an eye on the distant horizon while always paying close attention to the past and present. The ability to view future events is critical because it provides the organisation with a broad perspective. Being a futurist, the Chinese leader is good at identifying and exploiting business opportunities. In fact, in the mind of the Chinese entrepreneur, he sees the business like an empire that his children will eventually inherited (Redding, 1982). Based on this rationale, the Chinese entrepreneur normally would re-invest his earnings