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More About This Title Zennovation: An East-West Approach to Business Success
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As an entrepreneur, manager, and problem-solver, Tomio Taki has shared advice with businesspeople ranging from managers of mom-and-pops to high-powered executives from across the globe. The Innovation Instinct showcases the author's breadth of life experience and illustrates how the principles of Eastern and Western business practices can be meshed together as a powerful source for success. Lessons range from the benefits of asking the simple questions to the importance of establishing oneself and knowing when to go against the grain.
Tomio Taki has consulted for, financed, or directly managed both private and public companies on nearly every continent. He has been involved in ventures ranging from being the man behind Donna Karen New York to owning and operating private golf clubs around the world. In short, Taki's business and related successes are striking, having helped companies rise from the ashes of potential bankruptcy to streamlining and growing corporate giants. The wisdom he shares in The Innovation Instinct includes:
- Language is less of an obstacle across borders; instead, cultural differences are what propel and vitiate communication among businesspersons
- Certain fundamental aspects of business and life cross latitudinal and longitudinal lines
When businesspeople seek to understand the cultures of their counterparts, they will discover lasting success with their global business relationships.
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Introduction xiii
PART 1 JAPAN 1
Chapter 1 Optimism, Entrepreneurship, and Raincoats 3
Chapter 2 Losing My Father 21
Chapter 3 Changing Takihyo with American Brashness 27
Chapter 4 A New Takihyo Headquarters for a New Age 37
Chapter 5 Expansion and Distribution Channel Management: The Late 1960s 51
Chapter 6 Taki Gakuen and Asking the Simple Questions 65
WRAP UP JAPAN: RESPICE, ADSPICE, PROSPICE 73
PART 2 UNITED STATES 85
Chapter 7 The Break from Culture 93
Chapter 8 Outside Factors Wound Takihyo 99
Chapter 9 Now, the Good 109
Chapter 10 The Lion 115
Chapter 11 Negotiating for Anne Klein 125
Chapter 12 Losing a Friend 133
Chapter 13 Finding New Management 141
Chapter 14 Growing Anne Klein 147
Chapter 15 No Kickbacks 157
Chapter 16 Elevating the Designer 163
Chapter 17 DKNY—A New Brand, a Diffusion Line 171
Chapter 18 The Initial Public Offering of Donna Karan International 181
WRAP UP AMERICA: RESPICE, ADSPICE, PROSPICE 191
Conclusion: Zennovation in Retrospect 199
Acknowledgments 209
Index 211
