By chance -- Beyond EMBA: Beyond EMBA

Author: Chen Yi
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Personalized interviews with a Chinese-American female writer, and brilliant records of Peking University International MBA students! A work closely observing the Chinese MBA crowd, depicting the diverse faces of China's business elites. They inadvertently experienced a transformative era, and whether in terms of personal destinies or changes in perspectives, they are worth a group annotation of history. Going beyond EMBA means forgetting EMBA in practice. For example, many people enjoy reading Jin Yong's martial arts novels. The characters in the novels initially learn the martial arts of a particular sect in a step-by-step manner, but the true masters often undergo a painful process of enlightenment, integrating their knowledge and then transitioning to the highest realm—surpassing techniques with no techniques. The same applies to EMBA learning. The most important thing about completing EMBA is forgetting it, integrating the knowledge, thinking, and perspectives accumulated before, during, and after, and being able to act with confidence and creativity when facing practical problems, without being confined to rigid "methods." The interviewees I encountered this time, as well as the overseas and domestic Chinese around me, all acknowledge that the current Chinese business world is "results-oriented" and "unethical." No doubt, "frivolity" was the same 10 years ago and will remain so 10 years from now. Although everyone believes this "frivolity" is a byproduct of the transitional phase and will eventually improve, how many people are truly waiting for the improvement? How many are taking action from themselves, from this very moment? And how many critics are actually the ones executing "results-oriented" behavior? You can't expect someone who created the problem to solve the same problem using the same mindset. This book will help people transform their thinking.