Seniority promotion, the lifetime employment system and the dead hand of Japanese corporate bureaucracy are all anathema to the free-wheeling stock-option culture that attracts Chinese businessmen these days.
Though the stock market dominates our culture, there is a strange spirit of denial that has led observers to believe that each bailout or refinancing was the end of the trouble.
Faced with a deteriorating stock price and a culture that some have described as caustic, her actions as CEO to bring people back from the bedroom and into the office could be read as an attempt to reestablish the power of place.