Productivity Book Group [ http://productivitybookgroup.org ] discussed The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change by Matthew E. May, originally published in 2010. Enjoy the discussion!

Matthew E. May leads the Lean ScaleUp program at Insight Partners, helping high-growth tech companies drive transformative change using lean principles. Co-author of What a Unicorn Knows and five bestselling books, including our reading selection today, The Shibumi Strategy. He spent nearly a decade at Toyota, where he launched the University of Toyota, a corporate university dedicated to teaching, preserving and expanding the Toyota Way. A sought-after speaker and advisor, his work has appeared in The New York Times and Harvard Business Review. He holds degrees from Wharton and Johns Hopkins, and lives in Southern California.

“A personal leadership fable on applying principles of Zen to work & life choices.”

“The Shibumi Strategy is a little book about a big breakthrough. It tells the story of a hardworking family man who finds himself in crisis when his company closes. Through his struggle, and guidance from unlikely sources, he learns subtle lessons in the form of “personal zen” principles, coming to understand that it is often the involuntary challenge, the setbacks, that harbor the power to transform. When approached as an opportunity ― no easy task when simple survival is the first order of business―unforeseen trials can sometimes result in an altogether new lease on life.”

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