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• Becoming a Resonant Leader
• Being Strategic
• Beyond Success
• Bucket Anniversary
• Bucket Kids
• Collapse of Distinction
• Duck and Recover
• Go-Givers Sell More
• Half Time, Beyond Half Time
• Hope Not Fear
• How the Wise Decide
• How To Castrate a Bull
• Hug Your People
• Human Sigma
• In Pursuit of Elegance
• "I Love you More Than My Dog"
• Karma Queens...
• Leading with Cultural Intelligence
• Mass Career Customization
• Millionaire by Thirty
• Mobilizing Minds
• MoneyWise
• Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office
• Operation China
• Power of 2
• Rich People Shop Here
• Say Yes to No
• Seduced By Success
• Stall Points
• Strengths Based Leadership
• Strengthsfinder 2.0
• Taming the Search-and-Switch
• The 1% Windfall
• The 100 Best
• The Age Of Speed
• The Full Plate Diet
• The Great Depression Ahead
• The Middle-Class Millionaire
• The Milkshake Moment
• The Mona Lisa Strategem
• The New Age of Innovation
• The Power of Who
• The Triangle of Truth
• Treat Me Like a Customer
• Waging War On Complexity Costs
• Who Speaks For Islam?
• Wired For Thought
• Your Next Move

IN PURSUIT OF ELEGANCE:

Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing

By Matthew E. May
Doubleday
May, 2009

The search for solutions is real and eternal. And as a soft economy meets a brutally competitive business environment, the need for streamlined solutions will never be more keenly felt. In his new book, IN PURSUIT OF ELEGANCE, former Toyota executive Matthew May digs deep into what he calls elegant solutions -- those that combine surprising power and uncommon simplicity -- that not only fix problems but also create value.

The book looks at breakthrough moments in a wide swath of fields, from science to art, business to sports, and determines the key components of elegant solutions -- symmetry, seduction, subtraction and sustainability. Together, these result in a way of a thinking that involves doing less, rather than more.

"This is keenly important now," writes May, "because the most pressing challenges facing society are in urgent need of sustainable solutions. Because we need some way to consistently replace value-destroying complexity with value-creating simplicity. Because we need to know how to make room for more of what matters by eliminating what doesn't."

Matthew E. May is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Elegant Solution, which won the Shingo Prize for Excellence. A popular speaker, he lectures to corporations, governments, and universities around the world on ingenuity and innovation. He spent nearly a decade advising Toyota, and his articles have appeared in national publications such as USA Today, strategy + business, and Quality Progress. He has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, and on CNN and National Public Radio. A graduate of The Wharton School and of The Johns Hopkins University, he lives in Lake Sherwood, California.

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