How to Grow Your Business Like China: A 3-Part Confucian Strategy
Written by admin on November 1, 2008.
On the flight to Beijing, I read a book K had bought for me, Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman. It is an account of the author’s time as a teacher and martial arts student in Canton, China. It’s skillfully and subtly written, giving a detailed look at China and its people in the early 1980s.
Iron & Silk is full of accounts of Salzman’s funny and frustrating experiences with the culture that predominated then: an interesting mix of cloistered naivete, bureaucratic tyranny, and traditional values.