Title: Business Advice from Someone Who Can't Do Business
Product review: There author is a gifted writer and has been in China for a long time. He's able to tell a number of stories, but he clearly lacks the intellectual curiosity to perform serious research beyond talking to his small group of "old China hands."To get a better understanding of how much value his business advice has, it is important to understand his own China business background. Immediately after writing this book he started his own company, which flamed out miserably after a few years--and is now continuing on with him having been forced to leave. This would certainly make me wary of buying too much into advice he prescribes in the book.One of the real problems is that he takes anecdotal evidence and comes to grandiose conclusions that may or may not be valid. Another problem is that his knowledge of China inexplicably seems to end around 2000.Overall, it's an enjoyable read, but it has little value.
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