Thought Leadership

Okay Boss, Motivate Me!

“Motivate me” must be one of the saddest requests a leader can receive. The request may not be so bluntly arti...

HQ Never Understands Japan

One of the dubious delights of running an international business in Japan is dealing with the Mother Ship or i...

How You Can Generate Ideas

How to best tap into the idea potential of our work teams? We know that the success of the organisation will b...

Three Absolute Fundamentals for Success

Highly knowledgeable people are often at a big disadvantage in business. They have expertise and experience. ...

How To Cold Call

Cold calling is an unheralded intervention into someone's already packed schedule. They are distracted by the...

The Details Can Derail You

“The Devil Is In The Detail” saying, reflects ancient wisdom about taking careful notice of small things. The...

Setting Your Team Up For Success

Beginnings are important in business. It might be the start of a new calendar year, a new financial year or th...

Switching Your Mindset About Putting Things Off

We know we should do that project or piece of work but we resist. We may even be bold and get it into our To ...

Your Efficiency Is A Mirage

The disappearance of Executive Assistants and Secretaries reflects the dominance of the keyboard and a DIY app...

New Staff Development Challenges

Sakaiya Taichi, well known author and futurist, made an interesting observation about the current trend of Ja...

The Art of the Possible

“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do”. This quote ...

Where are We Going

New Financial Years, new calendar years, new starts or not? We religiously muscle up and set our resolutions ...

Business Saboteurs

It sounds quite obvious not to hire people who are dangerous. The problem is people can have a nice resume, c...

Coach For Team Japan Excellence

The younger generation are the future and they want a different type of boss.  That boss has to be a new model...

Freedom Is All In The Mind

We cannot stop remembering the past.  We cannot stop thinking about the future.  We learn from the past, good ...

Subtle Discrimination Against Women In Japan

Change happens slowly in Japan.  Getting more women into leadership positions requires a lot of other moving p...

Dealing with Taxing People

The playbook on how to deal with difficult people wasn’t anywhere in sight throughout our entire schooling.  W...

Getting Close With Your Audience In Japan

Engaging our audience is one of the prerequisites for having persuasion power.  Smart people sometimes make si...

Staff Shortages Change The Business Dynamic Entirely

We are running out of young people in Japan.  Covid has slowed down some major structural changes which must h...

How To Scuttle Your Brand

Jan Carlzon wrote a fascinating book called Moments of Truth on how to maintain the trust in your brand, throu...