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- Herausgeber: Kolima Books
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Leaders & Managers
- Sprache: Englisch
In 2014 a Japanese company asked Enric Lladó to identify the most important skills their executives should possess in order to take on the challenges of the future. Fruit of this commission, Enric created the Samurai leadership model. Since then, thousands of executives from numerous companies have been able to improve their leadership skills and business results after being trained in the four arts of this model. This book makes this knowledge available to everyone. It is addressed to those who aspire to make a difference generating positive changes around them. Through these pages the author will approach us to the ancestral wisdom of the legendary samurai warriors and will reconnect us with the true source of our personal power. We will discover that the word "samurai" means "the one who serves", that true leadership arises from within and that we can all tread this path because those who lead are really those who are able to serve.
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Category: Leaders & Management
Original title: Samurái, el que lidera sirviendo
English edition: June 2021
First edition: February 2019
Second edition: September 2019
© 2021 Editorial Kolima, Madrid
Author: Enric Lladó Micheli
Translation: Araceli Guillamón
Editorial management: Marta Prieto Asirón
Cover phototypesetting: Sergio Santos Palmero
Book phototypesetting: Marta Fernández Zubeldia
Illustrations: Oriol Alcober
ISBN: 978-84-18811-35-7
Printed in Spain
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The master´s teachings are taken in through the eyes and the ears, but they settle in the heart and are passed down wordlessly from one generation to the next. This is the way the masterbecomes immortal.
This book has been written to honour all my masters.
FOREWORD
In 2014, a Japanese company assigned me a very interesting project.
The objective was to identify the most relevant skills that their executives needed in order to take on the challenges of the future.
The result was the creation of the Samurai Model, a beautiful analogy where I describe the four essential skills that will allow any person to both lead and stand out within an organisation, whilst bringing success to the organisation itself.
Since then, thousands of executives from the world’s first-rate companies have been trained in the four arts of this model.
This book is a testimony of its essential philosophy. Firstly, as a way to support those students who have already begun to tread this path and are still evolving. Secondly, to assist those who wish to approach a very special way of understanding leadership; the kind of leadership of those who think personal success means working on the organisation’s success.
The leadership of those who lead by serving.
The master said that the invisible may only be perceivedby conferring it different forms,but it may only be learnt by stripping it from all form.
Metamorphosis
It all starts again after the great fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The samurai had transformed themselves before. When they ceased to cut the air with the edge of their swords and began to cut it with the wings of their military airplanes.
After the Armageddon, eternal enemies took new forms and the battlefields shifted towards the hearts of corporations.
Then came the time to transmute old war weapons to other of a much more subtle kind.
For the gaijin1, the samurai died centuries ago. Because the gaijin only perceive form. In their ignorance, they translate the word ‘samurai’ as ‘warrior’. Still, a warrior (bushi) is not necessarily a samurai. Nor is the samurai necessarily a bushi.
Today less than ever.
1Gaijin: foreigner.
The one who serves
The samurai were, are, and always will be, those who serve others.
In the past, a samurai would serve an Army. Now they serve a corporation, a team or a family.
This is their true nature. The essence that transcends beyond any form. Serving a lord. A warrior without a lord is just a ronin wandering through the limbo and whose soul is getting dangerously close to the hell’s abyss.
A lord may have many forms. But here too, form holds little importance. The lord is not a man or a woman. The lord is not a flag. The lord is not a corporation.
The lord is an idea for which it is worth dying, and beyond that, it is an idea for which it is worth living.
It has always been hard to know how to choose the right lord. Since ideas do not belong to this world, but inhabit another, more subtle place. And the only way of serving ideas is serving other people and organisations.
