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Episode #349 Stress Is Mounting In Japan And What Can You Do About It

PM Abe’s sudden announcement closing every school in the country from Elementary level on and up created imm...

Episode #348 Enabling Success In Japan

Vijay Deol originally came to Japan to teach English in rural Kyoto before starting at en world, a global re...

Episode #347: Building A Media Empire In Japan From Scratch

Robert Heldt, founder and President of Custom Media, an award-winning bilingual media agency, originally sta...

Episode #346: Hire People Smarter Than You And Trust Their Judgement

Allan Smith: Ex-CEO of RGA Japan Generally speaking, compared to other nationalities, they are a bit more r...

Episode #345: You Have Not Come Here To Be Comfortable As A Leader

Nikhil Gutpe The standard dress code is much more formal in Japan than many other countries, even including...

Episode #344: Five Generations Of Leadership Learning In Japan-Seiichiro Asakawa

Seiichiro Asakawa As a leader, I learned to not compete on things I did not have expertise in. I had a fina...

Episode #343: Be An Authentic, Vulnerable Leader To Draw People To You

Paul Hardisty Once you walk the talk over a given period of time as a leader, you gain trust, and then peop...

Episode #342: The 2020 Leader

Are you a perfect leader? If you are, bully for you. For the rest of us we continue on the journey. As th...

Episode #341: Want To Be A Great Leader - Then Be Yourself

Masa Namiki While you can be ready for a position from a capability or mindset perspective, it does not nec...

Episode #340: 2020 Will Be Different

Let’s make IWWCW our motto for 2020. Quite a mouthful as far as acronyms go, but the meaning is sensible, y...

Episode #339 Reflecting On Your Leadership Journey

We all tend to live in the moment as leaders. We swing from meeting to meeting like a great ape moving acro...

Episode #338: Leading An Intentional Leader Life In 2020

Leaders are made not born. Yes there are some bossy types and charismatic types who bubble to the top and a...

Episode #337: Dominic Carter-Five Guiding Principles To Create The Right Culture

Episode #336: Lessons On Why American MBA Style Leadership Struggles In Japan

Episode #335: Kervin Go On Leading A Small Team In Japan

Episode #334 Japan Needs More Alien Leaders

Episode #333: When Things Go Wrong Everyone Dives For Cover In Japan

Japan is a no mistake culture. This breeds timidity, resistance to change, lower levels of innovation, avoi...

Episode #332: Six Staff Members To Be Careful Of In Japan

In most cases, as leaders we inherit the staff employed by our predecessors. It is a rare chance to employ ...

Episode #331 Luke Verwey-Japan Year One- What I Have Learnt As A Leader

Luke Verwey has been running Nielsen Japan for a little over a year and I wanted to ask him about his experi...

Episode #330: Harry Hill- From Zero to $700 Million

Today we have an interview with Harry Hill the ex-CEO of Shop Japan. He went from being an English teacher ...