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The Emperor’s Teacher—Management Lessons from Chinese History, a public lecture by Rob LaFleur
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Date: Friday, September 30th, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Fireplace Lounge, Morse-Ingersoll Hall
Sponsored by: History Department
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This lecture will present teachings from Chinese history for twenty-first century listeners. It centers upon the ways we learn from life and study—with lessons for business people, academic administrators, teachers at all levels, and anyone who has ever sought to manage her personal affairs or her family. The “angle” is one of the greatest management texts of all time, and I have devoted my research to it for the past two decades. It is an eleventh-century Chinese history that can best be translated as the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Ruling. Written by a scholar named Sima Guang (1019-1086), and intended to impart the greatest lessons of the past to serious readers, all of the major Chinese leaders in the last thousand years have studied it. Indeed, even Mao Zedong read from it as he rode on a donkey during the Communist Party’s “Long March.” You’ve read the Art of War…this is what comes next.
This event is free and open to the campus and community.