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The Incredible Power of Serendipity! - Highlights of an Uncommon Life! (Paperback)
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The Incredible Power of Serendipity! - Highlights of an Uncommon Life! (Paperback)
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How Serendipity Shaped the Life of Author Boye Lafayette De Mente
This is the personal memoir of author Boye Lafayette De Mente, the
4th of ten children born to poor parents in an isolated valley in
the Ozark Hills of southeast Missouri, and raised during the Great
Depression of the 1930s. He went on to have a remarkable life which
he attributes to the incredible power of serendipity. As editor of
The IMPORTER magazine in Tokyo in the late 1950s and early 1960s
and as the author of numerous pioneer books on the mindset and
business practices of the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans he
made major contributions to the initial rise of Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and China as economic superpowers. He played a
leading role in helping to launch the career of Thunderbird School
of Global Management alumnae brother Merle Hinrichs who became the
largest trade magazine publisher in Asia, a major financial donor
to Thunderbird and member of the board of directors. And he
launched the publishing career of Kentucky hillbilly Larry Flynt
who achieved great wealth and notoriety as the publisher of HUSTLER
magazine and champion of freedom of speech. On the day De Mente met
Flynt he told his wife that he had just met a 26-year old man who
had the intelligence and drive to become president of the United
States by the time he was old enough to qualify for the office.] De
Mente's encounters and relationships with such extraordinary
individuals as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, America's ranking naval
officer during World War II; Akio Morita, co-founder and leading
light of what was to become the Sony empire; Toshio Karita, former
protocol officer for the Imperial Family of Japan; and Daisetzu
Suzuki, Japan's leading Zen master, plus many more, were
experiences he could not have even dreamed about before they
happened. His story is an example of the potential of ordinary
individuals to achieve significant things when life presents
opportunities and they follow up on them.
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