Made in Japan

A few books such as The Art of Japanese Management (authored by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos); The Knowledge-creating Company (Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi); The Mind of the Strategist (Kenichi Ohmae); Quest for Prosperity (Konosuke Matsushita); Toyota Production System (Taiichi Ohno); My Years with General Motors (Alfred Sloan); Competing for the Future (Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad); The Machine that Changed the World (James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos); Planning for Quality (Joseph M. Juran); The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) and the one under review are time-honoured classics which have had a profound influence on the human race and the practice of management. A reading of the aforementioned books will undoubtedly enrich the reader.