Thought Leadership

Getting Staff Engagement When Doing Business In Japan

According to our global research, there are three critical issues that determine the level of engagement and o...

Middle Management Madness

Leadership is critical in business and the ability of companies to keep tapping their talent to make sure they...

How To Engage And Retain High Potential Employees

Talented staff are hard to keep. They have options and are free agents, selling their services to the company ...

Dealing With Your Own Mistakes

The dealing with mistakes culture in Japan is definitely in the tough love category. This makes innovation and...

Workplace Idiots

Mistakes happen. How we deal with them becomes a crucial skill as the leader. There is always the contradictio...

End Your Stress

We create stress for ourselves don’t we. We often do this through being disorganized and time poor at the same...

Be More Self Aware

If we want to improve we need to change.  We can’t keep doing the same things in the same way and expect an im...

Finding Your Confidence

Our collective level of confidence can make a huge difference in the workplace. If we are prepared to try thi...

Old School Japanese Service

Customer service is a crowded field, with so many consumer products and services duking it out for survival. ...

Middle Managers Are Your Firm's Lifeblood

Middle Managers are going to be the leadership group most directly interacting with the younger generation of ...

How To Keep Departure Damage To A Minimum

The classic brutalist image of a departure from the firm is from the finance industry. The departee is handed ...

Learn To Outperform The Competition

Honey works better than vinegar in attracting people and their cooperation. We know that, so why do we forget ...

Nature's Attack Of Productivity Is Real

Brace yourself for everything to take a big hit twice a year. Speed, attention to detail, output, results are...

Haste Makes Waste

Modern life is full of contradictions. We have vast computing power in the palms of our hands. Yet, some choos...

Japan's Work Rhythm Is Different

Every culture has their work rhythm. Some are a start early, go home early preference, the mainstream is proba...

Negotiating. What Is Your Preferred Process

Negotiating is one of the dark arts isn’t it. The problem for most of us is that we usually spend very little...

War Declared On Soft Skills In Japan

Have you enjoyed a hanami or cherry blossom flower viewing party this year. One of the great Japanese traditi...

How To Master The Daily Info Tsunami

The pace is unrelenting. The world is producing information at a prodigious rate and somehow we are supposed t...

Ignore Your Business School Advice

Academic studies of business are important sources of case studies, theories and new research. All great stuf...

Show Me How Great You Are, Don't Tell Me

Japan is an interesting place where there is a lot of respect for people’s family pedigrees, University alma m...