Still, I reckon I'll need a bit more practice before Fuchun, let alone Din Tai Fung, will take me on as an apprentice.

WSJ: The Wow in Xiao Long Bao

We need more leaders who publicly practice etiquette, graciousness, and who honor their word and fewer leaders who manage by metrics, money and quarterly results.

FORBES: What Drives Trust Violations in Business: Villains or Villages?

Though democratic politicians and economic reformers can agree on the need for more efficient and accountable institutions, in practice change is often resisted.

ECONOMIST: The slow road to reform

In recruiting, more than any other HR practice, we need global platforms and tool sets.

FORBES: The World Is Not Global, It's Local

We need companies who focus less on the solitary practice of competition and more on the relationship practice of collaboration.

FORBES: What Drives Trust Violations in Business: Villains or Villages?

If the wider development sector is ever going to achieve sustainability in practice, we are all going to need to take a radically different view to supporting more commercial-type enterprises, and contemplating the possibility of closure, than they do today.

BBC: Viewpoint: A time to stop giving?