“Yield and overcome, empty and become full, bend and become straight.” Sounds a little strange? This is a sentence from Tao Te Ching by Laozi (an ancient Chinese philosopher). You will find the interpretation of the sentence in this lecture which gives an overview on Taoism and its influence on Chinese business culture. Taoism tries to bring the awareness to the unaware, to simplify the sophisticated, and to flow with the ever-changing forces of the universe, called “the way” or in Chinese, the “Dao.”