The Bruce Lee Code, Thomas Lee
The Bruce Lee Code, Thomas Lee
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The Bruce Lee Code
How the Dragon Mastered Business, Confidence, and Success

Author: Thomas Lee

Narrator: Scott Takeda

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

Bruce Lee was a brand well before that became commonplace. Step into the Dragon’s mind and explore how he thought about business, life, and goals.The Bruce Lee Code focuses on the business strategies prevalent in Lee’s life and teachings that helped unlock his full potential. Bruce Lee’s attention to brand is a major reason why he continues to influence pop culture today, and he was a pioneer, being one of the first Hollywood stars to start his own production company.To recharge America’s creative and entrepreneurial swagger, we need to reexamine Lee’s life and teachings. Although he died in 1973 at age thirty-two, Lee remains a global icon who continues to influence the contemporary world in ways both obvious and subtle.Lee was primarily known for his otherworldly martial arts skills and blockbuster movies such as Enter the Dragon and Fist of Fury. But he was also a man of incredible vision, willpower, and intellectual curiosity whose brief career inspired highly successful projects in Hollywood, sports, comic books, video games, and fashion.In many ways, Lee resembled Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Both men possessed remarkable self-assurance and a desire to disrupt the status quo. Jobs did not invent the computer, tablet, or MP3 player. Instead, Jobs’s genius was taking existing products and ideas and turning them into something better. Lee also did not hesitate to liberally borrow and emulate. He fused Eastern and Western ideas and techniques to make unique films that would appeal to worldwide audiences. He created his own unique style of martial arts and philosophies that drew upon a deep reservoir of historical and contemporary influences.This book will draw upon interviews with Lee’s family and friends and Lee’s extensive writings, including letters, journals, and business documents. CEOs and executives, academics, and experts on innovation, life coaching, and personal growth will also be interviewed.

About Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a long-time business journalist who has written extensively about innovation and entrepreneurship. In 2013, he won the Gerald M. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the top honor for business journalists. He also serves as editorial director and lead curator for the We Are Bruce Lee exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown. He is working with Shannon Lee, Bruce Lee’s daughter, who runs the Bruce Lee Foundation, to create a retrospective on Bruce Lee’s life and his impact on the current world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Malik on January 16, 2024

Summary The Bruce Lee Code by Thomas Lee (no relation) is a short treatise on how many successful businesses apply the philosophies of Bruce Lee into their own successes. The author draws on large corporations and individual entrepreneurs and artists alike to illustrate examples in which Bruce Lee in......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette on May 04, 2023

What a life! I’ll admit, I’ve seen only one film of his. But like the world, how does one not know of Bruce Lee and the influence he has had?! I enjoyed learning more of Bruce’s legacy. Gained more respect for his morals and challenges he took on and overall, the book just made me smile. The 3 stars......more

Goodreads review by Simon on February 22, 2024

This is a decent survey of Bruce Lee, his lasting impact, and how his maxims mean something in a business sense. By no means a replace for any authoritative bio — but a decent read still with some good ideas.......more

Goodreads review by Cris on November 23, 2023

Quick, entertaining, informativef read. Bruce Lee is facisnating. Author kept it interesting. I'd suggest it.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 18, 2023

  Among the greatest of entrepreneurs certain name have a way of standing out. Steve Jobs, Bill Gate, Elon Musk and several others. One of the best known who had an entrepreneurial spirit was Bruce Lee. Now Bruce was an icon a hero that everyone looked up to. Know for his martial arts prowess and chi......more