Business Strategies in Turbulent Times: Analyzing the Rise and Fall in the Great Upheaval of Qi, Song, Jin, Qin, Chu, Wu, and Yue

Author: Chen Wende
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book analyzes how outstanding political leaders during the Spring and Autumn Period utilized the times, led their countries, and competed for hegemony on the stage of intense international competition. "In this astonishing era, many events are repeating processes similar to history," as Teruhiko Kajiyama said in If the Present Is History. The recent wave of mergers and acquisitions in the international market is just like the Spring and Autumn Period in the 7th century BC, an era of hegemonic struggles. Chen Wende examines one by one the hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period from the perspective of "managing chaos": the perfect combination of the young boss Qi Huan Gong and the middle-aged strategic master Guan Zhong; the tragic hero Song Xiang Gong, whose political skills and foreign policies in the rise and fall of hegemony reveal the management insights that modern business people are concerned about. It is both an engaging historical story and a must-read case study for managers. Who says success in a "dog-eat-dog" world must come at any cost? In The Art of Managing Chaos, the path to success takes on a different, brilliant form! In this book, The Art of Managing Chaos, the author attempts to go beyond the traditional historical narrative of facts and observe, from an objective environmental and human perspective, how the outstanding political leaders of the Spring and Autumn Period utilized the times, led their countries, and seized hegemony on the stage of fierce international competition.