In our pilot of the retension podcast, co-founder Xiaowei shares how a detour from journalism in 1989 became a decades-long leadership journey across China’s opening up and today’s age of AI. She talks about being the bridge at high-stakes negotiation tables, why will beats skill when hiring, and the hard lesson that scale comes from clarity, not doing more yourself.
We unpack “no news is good strategy” (quiet prevention that avoids costly crises) and a favorite case study from her time in China: a road-safety initiative woven into sales campaigns that delivered double-digit growth across three cities while strengthening brand preference. The throughline is simple: do, then tell.
For leaders, Xiaowei offers a playbook on delegation, scorecards over spin, and what good consultants really do—empathize with constraints, ensure continuity, and close the gap between pitch and delivery. For career starters, she lays out the 70-20-10 model, the “sixth why,” and a reminder that curiosity is a strategy, not a personality trait.
We close with why we built retension: pairing seasoned professionals with rising talent so teams can do and tell better—solving real business problems while transferring capability across generations.
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In our pilot of the retension podcast, co-founder Xiaowei shares how a detour from journalism in 1989 became a decades-long leadership journey across China’s opening up and today’s age of AI. She talks about being the bridge at high-stakes negotiation tables, why will beats skill when hiring, and the hard lesson that scale comes from clarity, not doing more yourself.
We unpack “no news is good strategy” (quiet prevention that avoids costly crises) and a favorite case study from her time in China: a road-safety initiative woven into sales campaigns that delivered double-digit growth across three cities while strengthening brand preference. The throughline is simple: do, then tell.
For leaders, Xiaowei offers a playbook on delegation, scorecards over spin, and what good consultants really do—empathize with constraints, ensure continuity, and close the gap between pitch and delivery. For career starters, she lays out the 70-20-10 model, the “sixth why,” and a reminder that curiosity is a strategy, not a personality trait.
We close with why we built retension: pairing seasoned professionals with rising talent so teams can do and tell better—solving real business problems while transferring capability across generations.
In our pilot of the retension podcast, co-founder Xiaowei shares how a detour from journalism in 1989 became a decades-long leadership journey across China’s opening up and today’s age of AI. She talks about being the bridge at high-stakes negotiation tables, why will beats skill when hiring, and the hard lesson that scale comes from clarity, not doing more yourself.
We unpack “no news is good strategy” (quiet prevention that avoids costly crises) and a favorite case study from her time in China: a road-safety initiative woven into sales campaigns that delivered double-digit growth across three cities while strengthening brand preference. The throughline is simple: do, then tell.
For leaders, Xiaowei offers a playbook on delegation, scorecards over spin, and what good consultants really do—empathize with constraints, ensure continuity, and close the gap between pitch and delivery. For career starters, she lays out the 70-20-10 model, the “sixth why,” and a reminder that curiosity is a strategy, not a personality trait.
We close with why we built retension: pairing seasoned professionals with rising talent so teams can do and tell better—solving real business problems while transferring capability across generations.
In our pilot of the retension podcast, co-founder Xiaowei shares how a detour from journalism in 1989 became a decades-long leadership journey across China’s opening up and today’s age of AI. She talks about being the bridge at high-stakes negotiation tables, why will beats skill when hiring, and the hard lesson that scale comes from clarity, not doing more yourself.
We unpack “no news is good strategy” (quiet prevention that avoids costly crises) and a favorite case study from her time in China: a road-safety initiative woven into sales campaigns that delivered double-digit growth across three cities while strengthening brand preference. The throughline is simple: do, then tell.
For leaders, Xiaowei offers a playbook on delegation, scorecards over spin, and what good consultants really do—empathize with constraints, ensure continuity, and close the gap between pitch and delivery. For career starters, she lays out the 70-20-10 model, the “sixth why,” and a reminder that curiosity is a strategy, not a personality trait.
We close with why we built retension: pairing seasoned professionals with rising talent so teams can do and tell better—solving real business problems while transferring capability across generations.
