新浪并非总是令人讨厌。新浪有一个“读书频道”，近来确实不错。我先是到Google Books去找这本书，找到部分预览版本；随后在新浪的读书频道里，找到这本书的全版。
《专业主义》的作者大前研一，早年于早稻田大学理工系毕业后，获得东京工业大学硕士学位，麻省理工学院博士学位。曾任麦肯锡公司日本分社社长、公司董事，国际著名企业顾问。1994年7月离开麦肯锡，现任创业者商学院校长和一新塾校长，1996年起任加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校研究生院教授，斯坦福大学商学院客座教授。被英国《经济学人》杂志评选为"全球五位管理大师"之一，"日本战略之父"。
在这本书的前言中，大前研一说道：
本书的底稿是2004年7月开始连载于《哈佛商业评论》的文章。……我在归纳总结本书时，对当时连载于《哈佛商业评论》上的内容产生了怀疑。最终重新确定了写作的理念，删掉了大部分内容。……最后，我再提出一个预言——“任何人都能够成为专家”。——2005年9月
这本书里有很多有趣的内容，比如以下这个：
……“The Oath of Hippocrates”，在医学界被称为“希波克拉底誓言”，是在医神阿波罗以及埃斯克雷彼斯等诸神面前宣读的誓言。“希波克拉底誓言”的具体内容有九条（《希波克拉底的西洋医学概论》 常石敬一译 小学馆），在医学院中，立志成为医生的学生们要依照这一誓言宣誓。这九条誓言对于思考职业化问题也有着深远的意义，在此我想介绍一下。请大家在阅读过程中把医生作为“职业”，患者作为“顾客”来考虑。
一、 允许我行医，我要终生奉行人道主义。
二、 向恩师表达尊敬与感谢之意。
三、 在行医过程中严守良心与尊严。
四、 以患者的健康与生命为第一位。
五、 严格为患者保守秘密。
六、 保持医学界的名誉与宝贵的传统。
七、 把同事视为兄弟；不因患者的人种、宗教、国籍和社会地位的不同而区别对待。
八、 从受孕之始，即把人的生命作为至高无上之物来尊重。
九、 无论承受怎样的压力，在运用自己的知识时也不会违背人道主义。专家的词源本是“profess”，意思是“向上帝发誓，以此为职业”。希波克拉底誓言正是如此。
再比如，作者是个强调行动的人，于是他就可以观察到：“仅凭先见能力无法获得事业的成功”；他关注细节，于是就会提醒“关于授权的误解”；他认为一个人之所以专业就是因为他有超强的沟通能力，于是，这本书里有专门的一章讨论“讨论的能力”：
这本书在国内于2006年由中信出版社出版，好像并没有得到多少重视……很多人觉得这本书根本没意思，豆瓣上对此书的评价大抵都是不喜欢的态度。
但，其实这是本好书。
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大前研一还有一本书很值得一看，《思考的技术》。
讲的是如何进行逻辑思考的。
最近一直在关注大前研一，没想到笑来同志也是同道中人，暗合啊！
《思考的技术》昨天刚在图书馆借的，非常好，正在研读中，争取一个礼拜读完，读的同时记好笔记。
那是中信新出的书，然而却是大前研一的旧书……
觉得中信出版社的书挺好的
I am really sorry to write my comment in English, especially I am a Chinese. But I try to do so because the workstation I am using doesn't support simplified Chinese.
Oh, sorry again for distractions. In fact, after your introduction, I am reading the book in Sina and found it really interesting. In fact the reason the author wrote this book is because the social situation in Japan. As I learnt from books, some decades before in Japan, most people's career do not develop in the ways we do.
They may have some qualification in some area, like accounting. mechanics... but most of these people didn't end up to be the specialist of the areas, but a generally trained employee of the company. Some one with engineering background would probably end up to be a accountant, financial manager or something else.
This is because in these old days, the Japanese enterprises believe a person trained in many areas should have a wider range of vision and should be more creative in doing things. In fact, I think it is the case, making so many "innovation" occurred in Japan (even those innovation aren't essentially new things, but a re-packaging of idea). The generally trained people may be transferred between specialties every few years. Even they didn't have any areas they worked well enough, their career had been promised as the enterprise always kept their jobs. It is the old ways Jap co I read in the books.
It really worked well in the old days, when the global economy did developed so well and the competitions was not too intensified. But in recent days, this approach just simply doesn’t work. The generally trained people are hard to fired a new job when they separated from their first company. The reason maybe their salary are too high, the economy sucks… but I think one reason for their hard landing is that their training is too diversified, and skillsets are too wide but shallow. (I agree there are some talents managed to be specialized in several areas like you do, but I think most of us are not able to accomplish.)
I think that’s why the author wrote the book. And I think the book may not be easily accepted by us.
Besides, there is a phrase called professionalism I learned in colleague. It describe the ways we expect when people labeled ourselves professional.
At last, just want to tell you that your blog is very good, I just want to say thank you to you.
如果有朋友需要纸质的书籍，可以到卓越网购买大前研一的书籍。O(∩_∩)O~
例如：无国界的世界，思考的技术