Dorie Clark
鷹擊長空 “The eagle strikes the vast sky”
Dorie Clark writes and teaches about long-term strategy — The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, Stand Out — and teaches at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Fei interviewed her for Feisworld.
Painted with her arms out like a wingspan, between two bald eagles, holding one of her own books.
Xiang Li on the title
鷹擊長空 is a line from a Mao poem about autumn on the Xiang River — the eagle strikes the vast sky, the fish glides in the shallows. It is the phrase Chinese uses for someone operating at full extension.
Go and find them
This page is about the painting. Their own work is better.
Their books
What is in this painting
Xiang Li builds a portrait out of creatures. Each one is a claim about the person sitting among them.
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1 The title
Top right, read right to left: the eagle strikes the vast sky.
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2 The two eagles
Bald eagles, wings at full span, one on each side of her — and her own arms are held at the same angle.
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3 Entrepreneurial You
Her own book, painted with the cover legible and her name on it.
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4 The open hand
Far right, empty and open, at the end of the reach.
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5 The scarf
Streaming behind her in the same plaid she wears in her own photographs.
