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  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241318379
  • Imprint: Portfolio
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $40.00

Winning Not Fighting

Why you need to rethink success and how you achieve it with the Ancient Art of Wing Tsun




Learn how to triumph in every part of your life with the new philosophy of simplicity, balance and self-mastery

Winning Not Fighting draws on the philosophy of Wing Tsun, an ancient Chinese martial art, to offer a profound and practical guide to achieving success at work, life and business.

By explaining what these teachings reveal about decision-making, professional relationships, personal targets and positivity, it challenges some of our deepest-held assumptions and forces us to unlearn many ideas that inform our current ideas on professional success.

Why, for example, do we refer to business through a lens of conflict? Why does winning always require confrontation, competition and a loser? John Vincent and Julian Hitch challenge our ingrained assumptions about success and achievement to to guide us through a path of self-cultivation using the eight wisdoms of Wing Tsun.

John Vincent, the co-founder of LEON, has applied these mantras to his healthy fast-food empire with enormous success. In Winning Not Fighting, he collaborates with Wing Tsun master, Sifu Julian Hitch to sculpt this timeless wisdom into a practical and accessible guide to achieving success for your business.

  • Published: 19 November 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241318379
  • Imprint: Portfolio
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $40.00

Praise for Winning Not Fighting

A wondrous book built around the collision of two deeply implausible bedfellows: Eastern martial arts and modern business culture. But what may sound like an unlikely pairing in fact yields a host of the most eye-opening ideas that won't fail to intrigue anyone with an interest in a more mindful, purpose driven and humane business world. Not least, the humanity and vulnerability of the authors shine through and make this a touching as well as inspiring read.

Alain de Botton, Philosopher and bestselling author of The Course of Love

A timely piece of work that unites business and martial arts in a realistic, practical and intelligent way. It's capitalism, but not as we know it

Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet and bestselling author of The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah

Winning Not Fighting provides a wholly new perspective to finding balance and success

Nir Eyal, author of Hooked and Indistractable

I highly recommend it

John Maeda, Chief experience officer, Publicis Group and author of How to Speak Machine: Laws of Design for a Digital Age