Tim Clark (Author)
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Tim Clark is an American author based in Portland, Oregon. His first book is Saying Yes to Japan: How Outsiders are Reviving a Trillion Dollar Services Market, a business title that appeared in 2005. According to the American publisher Vertical Press, the book "reviews how outsiders, both foreign and Japanese, have found success fixing Japan's broken service economy."
Clark's second book, The Swordless Samurai: Leadership Wisdom of Japan's 16th-century Legend Toyotomi Hideyoshi, appeared in 2007 from St. Martin's Press. It explores principles of leadership success through biographical anecdote and apocrypha relating to Hideyoshi's ascendancy from the peasantry to the heights of power in 16th-century Japan.
Clark's third book, The Prosperous Peasant: Five Secrets of Fortune & Fulfillment from the Samurai's Temple School, is a collection of parables also incorporating the historical character of Hideyoshi and depicting the hardships of peasant life in 16th-century Japan.