Bouncing Back: How To Turn A Crisis Into An Opportunity

Takis Athanassiou Bouncing Back: How To Turn A Crisis Into An Opportunity.

It is frequently said that the Mandarin Chinese word for “crisis” is the same as (or that it includes, depending on who is saying it) the word for “opportunity”. This is such a deeply-ingrained line that it has even become the setup for a joke on The Simpsons – and the only problem with this serendipitous fact is that it’s not true. In no Chinese dialect are the words for “crisis” and “opportunity” even related, which is ...