{"id":12141,"date":"2019-04-12T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:19:54","slug":"book-review-let-my-people-go-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=12141","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Let My People Go Surfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-People-Surfing-Education-Businessman\/dp\/0143037838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9780143109679_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9780143109679_p0_v2_s550x406.jpg 278w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9780143109679_p0_v2_s550x406-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-People-Surfing-Education-Businessman\/dp\/0143037838\"><em>let my people go surfing<\/em><\/a> by Yvon Chouinard was a recommendation from a colleague.\u00a0 I may not have run across this one on my own&#8230;and I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t miss it!\u00a0 This book was primarily about doing work that matters and truly caring about people.\u00a0 This book was not written from a Christian perspective, but I can make that connection myself.\u00a0 The principles are there.\u00a0 Chouinard is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/home\/\">Patagonia<\/a>.\u00a0 I own a few of his products and it was really cool to hear the story behind how all of that came to be.<\/p>\n<p>Chouinard took something that he loved&#8230;being outside and having amazing adventures&#8230;and turned it into his life&#8217;s work.\u00a0 Along the way he invited others into the adventure and realized that he had to learn about business and leadership.\u00a0 He also learned a lot about how to care for a team.\u00a0 And he graciously shared many things he messed up along the way!<\/p>\n<p>I highlighted several things while reading and have posted those notes below&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patagonia exists to challenge conventional wisdom and present a new style of responsible business. We believe the accepted model of capitalism that necessitates endless growth and deserves the blame for the destruction of nature must be displaced.\u00a0 Patagonia and its two thousand employees have the means and the will to prove to the rest of the business world that doing the right thing makes for a good and profitable business.\u00a0 1<\/li>\n<li>One of my favorite sayings about entrepreneurship is: If you want to understand the entrepreneuer, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, \u201cThis sucks. I\u2019m going to do my own thing.\u201d p. 38<\/li>\n<li>The story is really about how we are trying to live up to our mission statement: \u201cMake the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.\u201d p. 70<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen I\u2019m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.\u00a0 But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.\u201d Richard Buckminster Fuller p. 91<\/li>\n<li>Mutual commitment requires nurture and trust, and those demand personal time and energy. p. 114<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.\u00a0 He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.\u00a0 To himself, he always appears to be doing both.\u201d L.P. 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