two very different art of management

(1) "Zen and the art of research management"
I saw this article hanging in the hallway of a research institution when I interned a few years ago. It was a pleasant short read over a cup of coffee, and I thought: that's true wisdom of running a lab!

The article somehow crept back to my mind recently, but I just could not recall what the wisdom really was. So I asked Jian, who is currently interning there to find, take a picture and share it. He came back with bad and good news: the frame is no longer in the hallway, but there's a google book link containing it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=cIpZis5f0rMC&dq=zen+and+the+art+of+research+management&pg=PA223&ots=Rpcy1voOo-&sig=wy6nQ91RA8h6tTixjH4YW3yEjE4

Now I understood the reasons for taking it off the walls, after reading it again this time ... the idealistic research lab wisdom is no longer true, that institution isn't an exception either.

One more complaint ... google just hid from the book preview (in the past two weeks) my favorite part about a toy budget and the dark room for shocked accountants upon discovering it! alas.

(2) "Mao and the Art of Management" This one is a sarcastic holiday entertainment.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=10311230

Mao is on the cover of the Economist this week .. fashioning a Chirstmas hat, followed by a sarcastic short article on how his art of management should set examples for struggling modern executives. There are many unsupported claims, amid the many places of black sarcasm that made me laugh and sigh (as a China native, naturally).

well, "the single most important lesson: if you can't do anything right, do a lot" ;)