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101 Corporate Haiku
From Asia we've learned the Art of War, the Tao of Leadership, kaizen, and even how Confucius would ask for a raise. But we haven't learned the most important secret of corporate how to keep our sense of humor.
Traditional Japanese haiku combine natural images, metaphors, and a flash of insight, all in three short lines. With 101 Corporate Haiku, longtime business consultant and Asia-watcher William Warriner brings this time-honored tradition to the office. His slightly subversive verses have been circulating among managers for months, popping up on bulletin boards and fax machines from coast to coast. Here they are collected for the first time, bringing a healthy dose of sunlight into the corporate world.
Traditional Japanese haiku combine natural images, metaphors, and a flash of insight, all in three short lines. With 101 Corporate Haiku, longtime business consultant and Asia-watcher William Warriner brings this time-honored tradition to the office. His slightly subversive verses have been circulating among managers for months, popping up on bulletin boards and fax machines from coast to coast. Here they are collected for the first time, bringing a healthy dose of sunlight into the corporate world.
- GenresPoetry
101 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 1994
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November 30, 2007
Subtitled 'subversive verse for the office aesthete' this is one of my favourite small books. Perhaps my favourite haiku of all is:
'My task is to go
where no one has gone before -
and invent the wheel.'
Or is it:
'The mystery is:
here is the fork in the road,
but which way is up?
'My task is to go
where no one has gone before -
and invent the wheel.'
Or is it:
'The mystery is:
here is the fork in the road,
but which way is up?
May 16, 2020
Love looking up this book and seeing people’s responses to it. My uncle Bill was an amazing man. He passed away now, but he will always live on in Corporate Haiku 🥰
July 19, 2020
My favorite haiku:
Rabbit tracks and dog tracks cross the snow,
Someone tell me timing is not everything...
Really very sad to know William Warriner passed away recently.
About this book:
I first got exposed to some of his haikus in 1990s when I was practically a kid and then a college kid - and people used them in their email signatures - and then in career and then when I managed to make a cousin buy this book in USA and send to me in the mid 2000s.
This is truly a book worth reading and reflecting on - for the truths about life, the world and corporate world it puts forward so pithily yet so deeply that they stick and stay in one's mind and one's heart.
Rabbit tracks and dog tracks cross the snow,
Someone tell me timing is not everything...
Really very sad to know William Warriner passed away recently.
About this book:
I first got exposed to some of his haikus in 1990s when I was practically a kid and then a college kid - and people used them in their email signatures - and then in career and then when I managed to make a cousin buy this book in USA and send to me in the mid 2000s.
This is truly a book worth reading and reflecting on - for the truths about life, the world and corporate world it puts forward so pithily yet so deeply that they stick and stay in one's mind and one's heart.
April 3, 2020
2.5 stars
My two favorites are the following:
The clocks disagree;
yet they all accuse me of
mismanaging time.
Remember to thank
the little people--for the
years they slowed you down.
My two favorites are the following:
The clocks disagree;
yet they all accuse me of
mismanaging time.
Remember to thank
the little people--for the
years they slowed you down.
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