Author: David Shirreff
Oh no, not another book on management strategy! Yes, but this one is set in 450BC. No danger then of being bamboozled by the latest in consultant-speak. Or is there?
Chao Kli Ning’s combined laundry and duck restaurant located in deepest China seems to succumb to every modern management bugbear: centralization, technology (a giant abacus), bean-counting (literally, soya, mung and aduki beans), over-leverage, merger mania, PR hype and top-heavy management. “Get a big-picture grip on the details,” Kli Ning urges his faithful manager Lo Fan each time he pushes him in a new and potentially disastrous direction, to be saved at the last moment by the way of Z/Yen enlightenment.
Access intelligence that drives action
To unlock this research, enter your email to log in or enquire about access
