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Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World
You Don't Have To Be A Shark To Be A Success In Business
Although you don't think of yourself as a shark in business, you are smart, ambitious, and want to succeed. With the challenge of the Information Age looming large on the horizon, your adaptability to change, your search for the elegant solution to every kind of problem, your desire to work with the system and with others toward a common end, defines and shapes your perspective. You don't need the killer instinct. Your talents, your coping skills, your intelligence will help you succeed in the changing world of tomorrow.
Your dolphin personality -- flexible, responsive, accepting -- represents precisely the attitude that successful managers must adopt. In Strategy of the Dolphin, the authors, innovative business experts, demonstrate that everyone will need to be a dolphin to survive the changes the future will bring. They speak directly to your needs, to your management style, reminding you that your way is perfect for your temperament and goals.
Strategy of the Dolphin will enable you to develop your creativity, break through obsolete thinking, and act upon your own compelling visions. Of course dolphins like to win, but they know that others don't have to lose at their expense.
A vital book that will take you into tomorrow today, Strategy of the Dolphin is a stimulating blueprint for success that resourceful and self-aware people can use in their continuing search for excellence.
Although you don't think of yourself as a shark in business, you are smart, ambitious, and want to succeed. With the challenge of the Information Age looming large on the horizon, your adaptability to change, your search for the elegant solution to every kind of problem, your desire to work with the system and with others toward a common end, defines and shapes your perspective. You don't need the killer instinct. Your talents, your coping skills, your intelligence will help you succeed in the changing world of tomorrow.
Your dolphin personality -- flexible, responsive, accepting -- represents precisely the attitude that successful managers must adopt. In Strategy of the Dolphin, the authors, innovative business experts, demonstrate that everyone will need to be a dolphin to survive the changes the future will bring. They speak directly to your needs, to your management style, reminding you that your way is perfect for your temperament and goals.
Strategy of the Dolphin will enable you to develop your creativity, break through obsolete thinking, and act upon your own compelling visions. Of course dolphins like to win, but they know that others don't have to lose at their expense.
A vital book that will take you into tomorrow today, Strategy of the Dolphin is a stimulating blueprint for success that resourceful and self-aware people can use in their continuing search for excellence.
105 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1989
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About the author
Dudley Lynch
20 books8 followersDudley Lynch has published by-lined articles in 250 periodicals on six continents, including Reader's Digest, Business Week, Newsweek, Fortune Magazine (special sections), The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and The Economist. His book, Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World (written with a colleague), was a Literary Guild alternative section, has been published in seven languages and made best-seller lists in France, Germany and Austria. Your High-Performance Business Brain was a Macmillan Book Club selection. The President from Texas was the first young-adult biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. His out-of-print work, The Duke of Duval, a political biography, has commanded prices as high as $3,000 each on Amazon.com.
Dudley attended one of the three church universities in a semi-isolated West Texas community much like the location of this work. (His father was a preacher for more than 50 years for the Churches of Christ, a Southern-based evangelical group.) With two journalism degrees, including a master's degree in mass communications, he also majored as an undergraduate in religion. But he has spent most of his career as a writer and researcher on how the brain handles beliefs and creativity, which is also the focus of his blog, LEAP!psych. He is the president of Brain Technologies Corporation, Gainesville, Florida. For information about his self-help books, go to www.braintechnologies.com.
Connect with Dudley Lynch:
Email: dudley@braintechnologires.com
Company website: https://www.braintechnologies.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainleaper and
Blog: http://www.braintechnologies.com/blog
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Dudley attended one of the three church universities in a semi-isolated West Texas community much like the location of this work. (His father was a preacher for more than 50 years for the Churches of Christ, a Southern-based evangelical group.) With two journalism degrees, including a master's degree in mass communications, he also majored as an undergraduate in religion. But he has spent most of his career as a writer and researcher on how the brain handles beliefs and creativity, which is also the focus of his blog, LEAP!psych. He is the president of Brain Technologies Corporation, Gainesville, Florida. For information about his self-help books, go to www.braintechnologies.com.
Connect with Dudley Lynch:
Email: dudley@braintechnologires.com
Company website: https://www.braintechnologies.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brainleaper and
Blog: http://www.braintechnologies.com/blog
Goodreads author's page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Smashwords Interview: https://www.smashwords.com/interview/...
Smashwords profile page: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
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May 18, 2013
It's not the most inspirational writing but the concept more than carries it through. Lynch started talking about flow, in a sense, long before the emphasis it has received in recent years. Unlike the shark and carp personalities, the dolphin: monitors the future steadily; learns constantly from the past; searches for the appropriate response; understands the dynamics of risk and stress; anticipates lag; lets go up front; is open to purpose both as compass and barometer; clearly articulates visions; self-corrects; self-directs; self-perturbates; learns early; learns quickly; learns lastingly; tells the truth with power to herself and to others; uses mistakes to test the winds and waters; knows where he is; knows where he is aiming; uses the power of flow; uses the power of novelty; uses the power of order; decouples ego from failure and success; avoids blame; avoids shame; avoids the need for self-justification; avoids drama; takes responsibility; creates choice; acts to expand the pool; changes the meaning of events; looks for alternatives; does more with less; does something different; favors elegant solutions; stands the heat if it matters; gets out of the pool if it doesn't; appreciates that not everyone can be a dolphin; appreciates that not everyone wants to be a dolphin; appreciates the good qualities of a carp; appreciates when it makes sense to think like a shark; believes in both scarcity and abundance; believes in appropriate retaliation; believes in immediate forgiveness; believes we can all win most of the time; knows how to use the power of brain parts; knows how to use the whole brain; accepts that there are some things he has no control over; is open to surprise; accepts responsibility for experiences and feelings; can admit failure; avoids stupidity; goes for breakthrough; understands that there is more consciousness than dolphin consciousness; and pushes the envelope. Flow results "when challenge and ability are more or less evenly matched." Key to reaching destination is constant course correction. Vision is not just having a destination but knowing you are already there. The underlying current conveys that the frequency of new waves is getting faster and faster and that dolphin tactics are necessary. When in flow, we are anticipating the next wave and changing so as to minimize the gap -- dolphins realize they are not always at their peak.
January 11, 2023
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January 7, 2026
« La réalité est ce que nous en faisons »
Pas mon livre préféré, la fin a été lue rapidement.
- « Faites ce que vous craignez et faites le avec une variante. »
- « Répondre aux questions par des questions pleines de sous entendus ou évidentes »
Pas mon livre préféré, la fin a été lue rapidement.
- « Faites ce que vous craignez et faites le avec une variante. »
- « Répondre aux questions par des questions pleines de sous entendus ou évidentes »
April 8, 2015
Great expectations for Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World by Dudley Lynch & Paul L. Kordis lead to great disappointment.
I muddled through the Introduction and first chapters reading more about Sharks and Carps then Dolphins. Though somewhat interesting (ah, Barry is a shark, Lori a carp, I might be a dolphin.) The charts did not make sense; had to read further to find explanations which did not clarify, perhaps due to excess of Shark, Carp info.
I did the first exercise in the book: "...make brief notes on a separate sheet about the changes you believe each of these events would bring to your life and how you would respond."
"Story B: Your organization or company suddenly eliminates your job and puts you on the street."
Never mind that I am retired, how does a company put you on the street? Loss of job could lead to homelessness, but I still did not like the Story (would I get termination package, unemployment?) How would I respond? Make finding a job my job.
The purpose of that exercise was explained, yet it did not appear to be a new strategy or dolphin like.
The next exercise queried how reader's answers would be different if we were 20 years younger or 20 years older. Um, I expect to be dead 20 years from now, so...
Because I was struggling to read this self-help book, I decided it is irrelevant to my life now, so did not read further.
I muddled through the Introduction and first chapters reading more about Sharks and Carps then Dolphins. Though somewhat interesting (ah, Barry is a shark, Lori a carp, I might be a dolphin.) The charts did not make sense; had to read further to find explanations which did not clarify, perhaps due to excess of Shark, Carp info.
I did the first exercise in the book: "...make brief notes on a separate sheet about the changes you believe each of these events would bring to your life and how you would respond."
"Story B: Your organization or company suddenly eliminates your job and puts you on the street."
Never mind that I am retired, how does a company put you on the street? Loss of job could lead to homelessness, but I still did not like the Story (would I get termination package, unemployment?) How would I respond? Make finding a job my job.
The purpose of that exercise was explained, yet it did not appear to be a new strategy or dolphin like.
The next exercise queried how reader's answers would be different if we were 20 years younger or 20 years older. Um, I expect to be dead 20 years from now, so...
Because I was struggling to read this self-help book, I decided it is irrelevant to my life now, so did not read further.
January 12, 2009
One of those books-with-a-paradigm, which - depending on how adjacent it is to you, can be very useful or not useful at all. I read it after a conversation with my Mom, and so it was very relevant and I liked the parts I read a lot. I actually can't remember now what about resonated so deeply- it's like it went right into my subconscious and remains buried there. Will do a better review when I re-read..
February 5, 2016
If you have been swimming in the corporate sea and thinking its a cess pool, this book is a must read. There are sharks. There are carps. There are even pseudo-carps. But you are a dolphin and how and what does a dolphin do when confronted with a sea where you know you don't belong?
Lynch and Kordis explain using an evocative metaphor how dolphins can learn to live and thrive in the sea of life!
Lynch and Kordis explain using an evocative metaphor how dolphins can learn to live and thrive in the sea of life!
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