Take a wild guess: Who's the second most influential management guru in Japan, after — it almost goes without saying — Peter Drucker?
Hint: He's been dead 2,500 years. He's Chinese. No, not Confucius. (Twenty years ago it might have been.) Give up? Sun Tzu ("Sonshi" in Japanese), purported author of a classic military treatise known as "The Art of War."
Source: A poll by business weekly Shukan Diamond of top corporate managers. Whose brains do they pick, whose spirits do they commune with, in those lonely hours of wrestling with decisions involving billions of yen, thousands of individuals and the life or death, it may be, of the company itself?