I thought this book was once going to be a perspective on my MBA from Kellogg from the standpoint of Go. Ainh! Nonetheless, a blog is a fine way to explore the topic.

First, the rules one learns in business school, for the most part -- the rules *you remember* once you graduated from business school and are out there for a few years -- are the same ones that apply in Go. No, you don't learn how to do financial statements in Go. No, you don't learn about how to lead a team in Go. But, you do learn strategies for analyzing financial statements and leading that are similar in nature to strategies one learns in Go.

Yes, you need a good deal of abstraction to do this. Yes, it's not always clear to get out of the surface details of something to get at the root elements in common, but I can assure you they're there. Leigh Thompson from Kellogg did a lot of work on the difference between case learning and "analogical learning" - that is, learning from the similarities in strategies between cases. Analogical learning won out.

This and other reasons seems to me are the reasons one should read the Way of Go, aside from all the other stuff in the book. Chock full of...