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Internationally acclaimed innovation and design strategist, and author of the delightful and idea packed business fable The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change, Matthew E. May, shares his wisdom for creating meaningful change through a fascinating business fable. Matt May uses Zen design principles to facilitate breakthroughs in business, career, and life. The author offers a ray of hope for people and businesses that are facing seemingly overwhelming challenges.The author presents the idea of shibumi as understanding and feeling of clarity, balance, and connectedness to the task at hand. Matt May shares how to recognize these shibumi moments and to learn their important and timeless lessons. Learn how to take the steps necessary to make the connections and to repeat these valuable concepts.

Matthew May is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.

The show airs live on Tuesday, February 8, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.

Internationally acclaimed innovation and design strategist, and author of the delightful and idea packed business fable The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change, Matthew E. May, shares his wisdom for creating meaningful change through a fascinating business fable. You will learn:

* Why the Eastern philosophy of shibumi is so valuable in today's world

* How to understand the five steps to understanding

* How to recognize that critical moment of clarity

* How to apply the Zen principles of shibumi to your own personal obstacles.

Matthew E. May (photo left) is an internationally recognized expert on change, innovation and design strategy. He is a columnist for the American Express Small Business OPEN Forum Idea Hub where he writes in the popular �The World� section.

He is the author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing (2009), which was a 2009 Inc. magazine bestseller, and was named to the BusinessWeek 2009 Best Business Books list in the Design/Innovation category, 800CEORead�s �Best Business Books 2009 (Creativity/Innovation)�, and Richard Pachter�s �Best Business Books of 2009� lists. His preceding book, The Elegant Solution: Toyota�s Formula for Mastering Innovation (2006), won the Shingo Research Prize for Excellence and was selected as one of 800CEORead�s �Best Business Books of 2006.�

A popular speaker and adviser, Matt lectures each year to corporations, governments, and universities around the world, as well as coaches creative teams and senior leaders in companies of all sizes. He spent nearly a decade as a close adviser to Toyota and is a master kaizen coach. His articles have appeared in national publications such as USAToday, Design Mind, and MIT/Sloan Management Review. He has been featured and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker Magazine, and on National Public Radio.

Matt is a graduate of the Wharton School and the Johns Hopkins University, but considers winning the New Yorker Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest among his proudest achievements.

The The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change is his first fable.

My book review of The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change by Matthew E. May.

My book review of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew E. May.

Listen live on Tuesday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.

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Let's talk with internationally acclaimed innovation and design strategist, and author of the delightful and idea packed business fable The Shibumi Strategy: A Powerful Way to Create Meaningful Change, Matthew E. May, as he shares his wisdom for creating meaningful change through a fascinating business fable. Matt May uses Zen design principles to facilitate breakthroughs in business, career, and life. The author offers a ray of hope for people and businesses that are facing seemingly overwhelming challenges.The author presents the idea of shibumi as understanding and feeling of clarity, balance, and connectedness to the task at hand. Matt May shares how to recognize these shibumi moments and to learn their important and timeless lessons. Learn how to take the steps necessary to make the connections and to repeat these valuable concepts on Blog Business Success Radio.