Go: An Asian Paradigm for Business Strategy, by Miura Yasuyuki. Kiseido K99; 1995.

This is a book about using go as a paradigm for thinking about business. He presents this as an Asian way, so Western businessmen's strategies are supposed to be like chess, where the goal is to destroy your opponent, whereas Asian businessmen's strategies are supposed to be like go, where the goal is to coexist with more territory (or market share).

I kind of like books like this, and enjoyed reading this one, but it's certainly not about go. I have no idea how good his business analysis is; for all I know, it could be either exactly correct or ridiculously cliched and biased. I don't know that I'd particularly recommend it to anybody else, and I do wonder what caused Kiseido to publish it.

david carlton <carlton@bactrian.org>

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