To: TobagoJack who wrote (126397 ) 12/18/2016 1:25:10 AM From: elmatador Read Replies (3) | Respond to 1 change of regime every 50 years. That is what will stop China.The only way a corporation endures for a century or more, according to former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner in McKinsey Quarterly, is by changing 4, 5, or even 25 times over those 100 years. By the way, I doubt China will produce a McKinsey. TYou know bunch of guys who could think and implement change. The West has endured because it faces change and changes with it. For change to happen, the future must not be stopped. Or, in the case of China, cherry picking the parts of the future that you like and keep the old things in place"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler. The futurists are fun to read. Futurists are a Western thing. They look at the construction and project what could be. Huxley's Brave New World. Orwell's, 1984. China cannot have futurists that make those projections Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class John C. Campb ellhis argument to its logical conclusion: the impossibility of basic change, either toward liberalization of the internal order or toward modification of an aggressive foreign policy. This study of Soviet experience since Lenin evokes Milovan Djilas's analysis of the "new class" published some 30 years ago; appropriately, Djilas contributes a brief preface to the book.
