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Zennovation
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Zennovation

An East-West Approach to Business Success

Bloomberg Press, 2012 plus...


Editorial Rating

6

Qualities

  • Engaging
  • Insider's Take

Recommendation

Tomio Taki became president of Takihyo, his family’s 250-year-old Japanese clothing company, at age 26. His clear, practical approach to solving problems and his ability to foresee future trends made him the prime force behind Western-style clothing’s popularity in Japan. Taki was the financial and cerebral power behind Anne Klein, and he made designer Donna Karan a household name. Taki’s life story is an engrossing read. His autobiography falls short as a business management book, since the authors, Taki and his son Adam Taki (writing with business consultant Mortimer R. Feinberg), leave most of the job of extrapolating business lessons to the reader. Nonetheless, getAbstract believes this insider’s look into Japanese culture and history – and into the business of fashion – make Taki’s saga a worthwhile read.

Take-Aways

  • Tomio Taki’s experience in a Japanese evacuation camp during World War II and his college education taught him practical life lessons about perseverance and drive.
  • Taki’s first project for his family’s clothing company, Takihyo, was supervising the opening of a manufacturing plant in Okinawa in 1959 at age 26.
  • Later that year, Taki’s father died, and he became president of Takihyo.

About the Authors

Tomio Taki heads his family’s firm, Takihyo Co. Adam Taki founded RH Gallery in New York City. Commentator and consultant Mortimer R. Feinberg chairs BFS Psychological Associates.


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