My interest in reading this book was aroused because I worked for Wang Laboratories from 1985 to 1993 and I was curious, more so at a distance of 20+ years. I actually had a signed copy of the book for years, but could never bring myself to read it as it just didn't feel right. Perhaps I should have. Perhaps every employee and especially all the managers should have. Wang Australia would have been a completely different place if we had all embraced Dr Wang's philosophy.
Apart from this, my person
My interest in reading this book was aroused because I worked for Wang Laboratories from 1985 to 1993 and I was curious, more so at a distance of 20+ years. I actually had a signed copy of the book for years, but could never bring myself to read it as it just didn't feel right. Perhaps I should have. Perhaps every employee and especially all the managers should have. Wang Australia would have been a completely different place if we had all embraced Dr Wang's philosophy.
Apart from this, my personal interest, and ignoring the 'lessons' part (its way too late for me now), the book offers a fascinating insight into both the Chinese situation during WW2 and the beginnings of the computer industry that became 'IT' as we know it today.
Sadly, the book was written at the height of the Wang Laboratories influence of the computer marketplace. Dr Wang died only a few years later in 1990 and his company was already in decline and heading from a 3 billion dollar company to bankruptcy.
Had he lived, could he have saved it? We'll never know.
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