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“Explode your mind, embrace your chopsticks”

That’s the tagline from the YouTube trailer for The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, the first business book written in manga, the Japanese comic format. Johnny Bunko is the creation of bestselling author Dan Pink and manga artist Rob Ten Pas, and it features six bite-sized career lessons, shown on the official Johnny Bunko chopsticks above.

You can read this book in less time than it takes to enjoy takeout, and once you finish, you’ll never think of chopsticks — or your career — in the same way. Johnny Bunko is a strange, but satisfying meal in itself: career truisms, Japanese comics, spreadsheets, shoe marketing — all mixed in with the right-brain reveries of Pink. I found it a delicious read, as you'll see in this post.

(So how do you get a set of Johnny Bunko chopsticks? Catch Pink at an upcoming book tour.)

Thanks to Peter de Sibour for the photo.