{"product_id":"falling-with-purpose-michael-norkus-9798995891550","title":"Falling with Purpose: A Strategist's Pursuit of Love and Durchblick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1973, a woman walked into a Harvard Square café and sat down at the next table. He reached for her jacket without asking. She stopped him cold.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was a German student at Harvard Business School, trained to find the pattern beneath any problem. She was an American psychologist who saw through people before they finished their first sentence. He had never been seen so clearly. She had never met someone so determined to know himself - and so far from managing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFalling with Purpose moves between their courtship and the world that formed him: postwar Germany, coal dust and factory floors, soccer and jazz, first love, family silence, and the early days of the Boston Consulting Group. It is the story of a man who mastered strategy, built a career, and nearly lost the one thing that made any of it matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its center is a single German word: Durchblick - the ability to see through confusion to what truly matters. Michael Norkus spent decades applying that clarity to markets, companies, and business problems. It took considerably longer to understand that the same clarity, turned inward, leads somewhere simpler - and that love is not a feeling but a choice, made again and again, at real cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part love story, part portrait of postwar Germany and the birth of modern business strategy, Falling with Purpose is for readers of Wallace Stegner, Sebastian Junger, and Phil Knight's Shoe Dog - and for anyone who has ever been very good at the wrong things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe why is love. Not as something solved. As something chosen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Norkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798995891550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Am Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Michael Norkus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874729046271,"sku":"9798995891550","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/falling-with-purpose-michael-norkus-9798995891550","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}