{"product_id":"ishi-gareth-a-holebrook-9781067285531","title":"Ishi: The Discipline of Determined Intent","description":"\u003cp\u003eIshi is Japanese for determined intent. This book is about what happens when you have plenty of it and fail to govern it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetermination without governance becomes drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe intent is sound when you set it. Then pressure, fatigue, ego and evidence load onto it, and it starts giving ground to the conditions it was meant to withstand. Capability is rarely what fails first. Governance is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI learned it on the floor at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, 35 kilometres into the marathon, after 18 years of trying to qualify. I got up and finished. The finish had hidden the failure. What I had been calling determination was persistence with no governor on it. The same pattern had already cost me a business I kept alive for years past the point it should have died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIshi is the discipline that I evolved. Self-governance in 4 phases, all of it on a single handwritten card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecide sets the commitment, its horizon and the conditions under which it ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForge turns intent into capability through corrected, repeated practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersist holds the line with 3 responses set in advance: Adjust, Hold and Abort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReflect separates a good decision from a good outcome and settles the verdict: recommit, pivot or release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is for capable people who carry consequence under pressure: founders, leaders, coaches, athletes and anyone running long work that has to hold up under real conditions. A stricter way to govern intent when the load rises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by L. David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around!, Leadership Is Language and Distancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 1 of the Ishi Kaizen Series. The daily companion, Kaizen of the Day, follows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Performo Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725357158593,"sku":"9781067285531","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781067285531.jpg?v=1791900578","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/ishi-gareth-a-holebrook-9781067285531","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}