Tue 13 Feb 2007
I’ve recently been in Hong Kong and ran a really quick retrospective with the project team. I handed out red and green post-it notes and asked the team to write down things that went well and things that went not so well. They then stuck the post-its on the board, red “not so wells” on the left and green “goods” on the right. Only it didn’t quite work like that. In my western mind I’d assumed that green is good and red is bad. Not so in China where red is an auspicious and lucky colour…
February 13th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
By the way, a trip to your local Chinatown will also reveal that green is also an “auspicious and lucky” (sic) color.
There was a period of time on CCTV, a few years ago, when stock market gains were reported in red and losses in green, which we speculated was ordered by some cadre, somewhere, but I think that has been reversed to fit the convention.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:48 am
i think it is a color (of course) and it is bright in fact, i love bright red that is every shiny lol!