Podcast

Episode #151: Drucker On Leadership

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

Episode #150: Attitude Control

We can control 100% of our attitude. Yes, but often we don’t. There are few things we can be 100% in control...

Episode #149: Dojo Business Lessons

I have often thought there are so many lessons from the martial arts for our businesses. Here are my musings...

Episode #148: Why Leading Project Teams Is Tough

Projects are too common. Because of this we take them for granted, seeing them as part of everyday work, but...

Episode #147: How To Get Good Ideas

We find it frustrating when we have good ideas or suggestions but all we receive is rejection or even worse ...

Episode #146: Stop Killing Your Sales

What we say and how we say it matters. It matters in life, in families and in business- especially in sales....

Episode #145: Japan's 3 No Ys Society

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

Episode #143: What The Dale Carnegie Course Delivers

The course is amazing. The kaizen on a 104 year old course is even more amazing. This is taken from a live...

Episode #142: We Need Help

The changing role of Executive Assistants and Secretaries reflects the dominance of the keyboard and a DIY a...

Episode #141: The Devil Is In The Details

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

Episode #140: Starting A Business In Japan

Episode #139: The Negotiation Process

“Winning is not a sometime thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all of the tim...

Episode #138: Characteristics of Successful Negotiators

We can’t control the issues which arise during a negotiation or the attitude of the buyer, but we can contro...

Episode #137: Negotiation Fails

Former American President John F. Kennedy left us with a great quote: “Let’s never negotiate out of fear. Bu...

Episode #136: Pummel Procrastination

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...

Episode #135: Getting More Done Faster

“The first thing is to make sure you are in the moment” says ten time tennis Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovi...

Episode #134: Today We Need Persuasive Leadership

The tried and true leadership model of “do what I say or else” is a personal favourite of people who actuall...

Episode #133: Making It Happen

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

Episode #132: Do The Right Thing In Japan, Always

Reputation in business is critical. Being honest, law abiding and treating business partners in a fair manne...

Episode #131: The Devil Is In The Details

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