400多年前,我国明代万历年间,出现了一本广泛流传的书,这就是《菜根谭》。此书作者为洪应明,别号还初道人。20世纪初,《菜根谭》就风行于日本,后逐渐传播到英、美等国。到了20世纪80年代中期,日本又报起了《菜根谭》热。日本的企业界人士,普遍认为这本书值得反复研读,有的甚至作出以下评语:“论企业经营管理的书籍成千上万,多数抵不上一部《菜根谭》”,可见此书影响之大。 More than 400 years ago, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty in our country, there appeared a widely circulated book, which was “Cai Gen Tan.” The author of this book is Hong Yingming. At the beginning of the 20th century, Cai Gen Tan became popular in Japan and gradually spread to countries such as Britain and the United States. By the middle of the 1980s, Japan had also reported the “Cai Gen Tan” fever. Japanese business people generally believe that this book deserves repeated study, and some even make the following comments: “There are thousands of books on business management, and most of them are not worthy of a “Cai Gen Tan.” Great.