{"id":104,"date":"2006-02-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2006\/02\/07\/let-my-people-go-surfing-yvon-chouinard\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T23:02:44","slug":"let-my-people-go-surfing-yvon-chouinard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2006\/02\/07\/let-my-people-go-surfing-yvon-chouinard\/","title":{"rendered":"Let My People Go Surfing. Yvon Chouinard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-post\">Let My People Go Surfing. Yvon Chouinard. The education of a reluctant<br \/>\nbusinessman. 2005. ISBN 1594200726.  So if you ever<br \/>\nneeded reasons to buy Patagonia products you will get many from this<br \/>\nbook.   How could such a successful and environmentally<br \/>\nconscious company evolve from one mans desire to build a better mountain<br \/>\nclimbing piton just for himself? It is a refreshing and &#8220;open komino&#8221;<br \/>\nkind of non business business book &#8211; perfect for a crowded noisy<br \/>\nairplane, but wait for the paperback. Easy reading but full of good<br \/>\ninsight on how the best business decision scan be made for the right<br \/>\ndecisions, and not a formulaic Roi model. Patagonia appears to get the<br \/>\nmost out of their folks and their clients reward them with handsome<br \/>\nproducts.  Pure Geoffrey Moore triumph of core over context.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-ca.amazon.ca\/e\/cm?t=wwwrocketbuil-20&amp;o=15&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1594200726&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Book reviews for the business side of the technology industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let My People Go Surfing. Yvon Chouinard. The education of a reluctant businessman. 2005. ISBN 1594200726. So if you ever needed reasons to buy Patagonia products you will get many from this book. How could such a successful and environmentally conscious company evolve from one mans desire to build a better mountain climbing piton just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}