John J. Murphy - Zentrepreneur: Get Out of the Way and Lead

Praise for Zentrepreneur

Enlightening, inspiring, powerful, profound. Let this book light up your life!

Dannion Brinkley, New York Times best-selling author of Saved by the Light

John Murphy is one of the rare individuals who see the connection between the mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being of an individual and his or her ability to direct positive energy into their business endeavors. John is a leader at shining the light on the prerequisite of a positive outlook on high end success in any work environment. I love Johns books! Zentrepreneur will no doubt be a hit.

Scott Stone, JD, Master Black Belt, senior director of human resources, Catalent

If you want a strong, positive jump start to your professional and personal lives, then John Murphys books are must-reads! These books penetrate right to the core of principle-centered leadership and proactive change management. I highly recommend them to anyone looking to lead a more fulfilling life. John Murphy is a winnerand so are his books!

Ed Robertson, Brig. General USAF (Ret.), Communications Officer, Desert Storm

Improvement tools and systems are not all that helpful or effective without the will to act. John Murphys combination of positive thinking and disciplined processes is a winning approach to becoming better, no matter the business.

Timothy D. Gill, Brig General USAF (Ret.), process improvement Black Belt, business consultant and Lean Six Sigma practitioner

For the past 25 years John Murphy has contributed to Axios as a friend, mentor, consultant and director on our board. Johns influence has shaped our organizations philosophy, teamwork, customer service, and culture. Ultimately, he has helped drive the type of change needed for Axios to reach the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies six times and become the 4th largest employer in our region. It now seems entirely appropriate that John is sharing with us his finest work yet, Zentrepreneur. This is a must read for any organization or leader planning to deliver high performance results in the hyper-competitive global economy we live in today.

Dan Barcheski, founder and CEO, Axios Inc.

In his exciting new book, award-winning author John Murphy demonstrates that it is the catalyst of tapping into your creative essence combined with practical hard skills that unleashes quality intuition and clarity of purpose.

R. Michael Armstrong, Wall Street executive

Johns sage advice via Zentrepreneur not only hits the core issues for successful entrepreneurship, but it hits the reader too, right at the core. In simple words, Johns zentrepreneur thinks positive, ideates well, takes risks and acts consistently, thus converting ideas into results and dreams into monumental organizations.

Dr. Amit Nagpal, author of The Seven Joys of Life, speaker, and coach, www.dramitnagpal.com

John Murphy is the quintessential leader for this unique time on earth, a time in which old paradigms of success are being questioned and we must see outside the box if we intend to succeed. In Zentrepreneur, John helps us to recognize that each of us is, in fact, confined by the box which is nothing more than our own self-imposed limitations. He then leads us out by sharing real and raw experiences of great successes and painful losses from his own life and skillfully guiding us to awaken the zentrepreneur that lies within.

Debra Poneman, best-selling author and founder of Yes to Success Seminars, Inc.

Get Out of the Way and Lead: Create a Culture of Innovation and Fearlessness

By John J. Murphy

Copyright 2013 by John J. Murphy

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To the zentrepreneur in you, your sacred and eternal Spirit, seeking continuous expression, exploration, and growth. Let it flow by turning your inspirations into manifestations. Namaste!

I begin every day with gratitude. There is no quicker way to transcend the ego thought system than with appreciation and thanks. Couple this with the Law of Attraction, and you bring into your life many more things to be thankful for. What better way to pray than to simply give thanks for your fingers, toes, eyesight, work, family, home, friends, and the abundance of opportunity that surrounds you? I even give thanks for my problems and challenges, quickly challenging the temptation to feel grief and interpret these outcomes as bad. Maybe they are not! Maybe they are exactly what I need, exactly when I need them, to learn more about myself. Maybe they are gifts, blessings in disguise.

Countless people deserve thanks for this book, and I offer many examples of this throughout the book. People all over the world have offered me insights and ideas on how to apply zentrepreneurial thinking to everyday situations. I thank my parents, grandparents, children, siblings, ex-wife, clients, colleagues, students, agent, publisher, publicist, girlfriend, and the masters of the agesall of whom have inspired me and contributed to this book in one way or another. I also thank God and the Holy Spirit for allowing me and directing me to share what I can to make this world a place of joy, peace, and freedom. I am deeply grateful.

The Sage is always on the side of virtue so everyone around him prospers. He is always on the side of truth so everything around him is fulfilled. The path of the Sage is called The Path of Illumination.

Tao Te Ching

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon.
Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

Buddha

When John Murphy asked me to write a foreword for Zentrepreneur, I was deeply honored and excited. During the past 25 years, John and I have traveled on parallel paths in our separate journeys of leading and facilitating business cultural transformations. We have both been called Lean Sensei or highly respected teachers where our roles were to work through teams and others, teaching and guiding them to bring ideas from the point of disorder to concept, and then into a place of reality delivering sustainable results. Our quests were to help change (kai) a place, time, a situation, a process for the better (zen). It was the drive for us to bring kaizen into reality, enabling continuous change of these ideas to make things better. I know and respect Johns work in driving and leading change. His teachings provide unique insights into the how to make the change happen, and how to move from one point of being to another. Johns work is more like a foundational instruction manual rather than just an esoteric examination into continuous improvement and excellence. Let me elaborate on this further.