By Chance: Beyond EMBA

Author: Chen Yi
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Personalized interviews with a Chinese-American female author, and a brilliant record of the International MBA students at Peking University! 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 collective annotation of history. 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 systematic manner, but the true masters often undergo a painful process of enlightenment, integrating their knowledge and then transitioning to the highest realm— winning without using any moves. 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 by 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." Yes, "frivolity"—it was like this 10 years ago, and it will still be like this 10 years from now. Although everyone believes that this "frivolity" is a product of a transitional phase and things will eventually improve, how many people are waiting for the improvement? How many people are truly taking action from themselves, from this moment? And how many critics are actually the ones executing "results-oriented" behavior? You can't make someone who creates a problem solve the same problem with the same mindset. This book will help people change their way of thinking.