Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Andrew Ross is going to be on my radio show tonight talking about his
> new book, Fast Boat to China, the product of the year he spent living
> in Shanghai, investigating the conditions in the IT industry there.
> I'm just editing the interview now, which was recorded yesterday. A
> little gem: the Chinese government has put together a two-volume
> selection of Mao's writings for business execs, offering them
> management tips.
If you know how, first, to abstract, and secondly how to reconcretize as it were in radically different conditions, Mao's works are indeed a treasurehouse of tips for almost any activity that involves building collective activity. :-) Remember that the Marine slogan, Gung Ho, emerged from a Marine officer's brief experience visiting the Red Army. (I never have looked up the details of this, just how the contact occurred, and how it got reshaped and applied to a Marine division in WW 2.)
Carrol