Thought Leadership

Four Pillars Of Leadership

What are the starting points, the basic requirements of leadership? There are actually many, which is why book...

The Leaders Three Big Roles

Leaders are different from managers. Managers have to make sure everything is humming. The quality standards...

The Focused And Disciplined Boss

Intellectually, we all know what we should be doing and how we should be doing it, but that isn’t how things w...

Not Meeting The Leadership Challenge Is Quietly Killing Us

Careers are cut off at the knees and businesses destroyed when people problems are allowed to fester. Getting ...

Motivational Leadership Part One

As leaders, how well do we know the hopes, fears, dreams and situations of our team? In the old model, the per...

Motivational Leadership Part Two

Sales guru Zig Ziglar had a great saying, “If you can help enough people get what they want in this life, you ...

How To Lead In Our 4 Gen Work World

The projections are that the total number of the youth population in Japan of those aged up to 34 years of age...

Japanese Elites Who Can't Cut It

Imagine the consequences when you combine dead data with a dead delivery? You have a massive bromide of fright...

Develop Your Superpower As A leader

We need the leader to provide direction, hope, guidance, the way forward. That same leader needs to be able to...

Leading Introverts

Often we are not tapping into the full brain and experience power of our team. This happens because of the way...

To Be Good You Have To Be Clear

Being able to get up in front of a crowd of strangers and speak with confidence and persuasive ability frustra...

Leading The Next Generation

Who would have thought we would be seeing the job mobility we are witnessing today in Japan. This is a recent ...

Nice Or Nasty Bosses

Boss positions over others are often the last refuge of insecure people. They are like little Napoleons, boss...

Your Own Leader Voice

The new Japanese financial year has already started now and I hope that last year’s results went well for you....

Professional Leader As The Coach

Leaders become leaders because they were the best at their job, their tasks, their function. They are promoted...

Leaders, How To Get Your Act Together

Here is a simple question – are you only working on the highest value items, that only you can do? Some thing...

Success Formula For Leading Project Teams

Leading projects can be tricky. Often the enthusiasm for the detail overrides the brain and the team are leapi...

Japanese Leadership Legend Mr. Atarashi's Big Breakthrough

Ever heard that a training course changed somebody's life? "It was good", "I enjoyed it", “I learnt something...

Peter Drucker, Leadership And Japan

Peter Drucker has this great quote. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion ...

More Power To The Positive

Yes, but often we don’t. There are few things we can be 100% in control of and our attitude would have to rank...