By Chance – 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 both their personal destinies and changes in perspective are worth a collective 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 martial arts skills in a systematic manner, but the true masters often undergo a painful process of enlightenment, integrating their knowledge and achieving a higher realm—winning without using 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 approach practical problems with confidence while also thinking outside the box, not being confined to rigid "methods." The interviewees I encountered this time, as well as overseas and domestic Chinese around me, all acknowledge that today's Chinese business world is "results-oriented" and "unethical." No doubt, "frivolity" was like this 10 years ago, and it will still be like this 10 years from now. Although everyone believes this "frivolity" is a product of a transitional phase and things will eventually improve, how many people are actually waiting for improvement? How many people are truly starting from themselves, from this very moment? And how many critics are themselves the very 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 thinking.