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Leadership-Key Competencies Needed To Lead Others – Part Two

  In Part One we looked at two broad categories of leadership competences around being Self-Aware and having ...

Leadership-Key Competencies Needed To Lead Others (Part One)

  Leading is super easy. You are given the title, the authority, the budget, the power and then you just tel...

The Slings And Arrows Of Outrageous Fortune Running A Virtual Team

  Japan has some set pieces around leadership. The Middle Manager boss sits at the head of an array of desks...

How To Have Executive Presence In Japan

Clients sometimes ask us to help their Japanese executives have more “presence”. This is rather a vague co...

Why We Need Phase Three Thinking

In business we live in the world of shallow statements of opinion. Imagine there is a topic for discussion...

Kokorogamae For Leaders

Kokorogamae is one of those Japanese concepts which are a bit tricky to translate. Kokoro by itself as a w...

Holistic Time Management For Leaders

Leaders are now leading invisible people. Their staff are no longer in sight or at best are only visible i...

Killing Rumours And Misconceptions

Staffing is a subject that gets a lot of attention from those within and without the organisation. Those ou...

Episode #590: Avoiding the Leadership Disconnect. Stay Close to the Action In Japan

Avoiding the Leadership Disconnect. Stay Close to the Action In Japan The usual advice is to get off the to...

Episode #589: Leading Direct Reports When You Are A Small Team In Japan

Large organisations have many willing hands. Often, the quality of the people employed is very high, and t...

Episode #588: Transform Your Team Leadership. Secrets For Building Cohesion and Performance In Japan

Teams don’t build themselves. They are delicate, fragile and unstable. They need constant care and attentio...

Episode #587: The Collapse Of On-the-Job Training in Japan: A Wake-Up Call for Companies

When I first got to Tokyo in 1979, there was a very well established corporate educational system in Japan....

Episode #586: Why Authenticity Matters – Inspiring Leadership For Japan’s Evolving Workplace

The blow torch has never been applied more ferociously to how leaders lead than what we see today. Once up...

Episode #585: Why Becoming An Effective Leader Is Challenging In Japan

We recently completed an in-house Leadership Training for Managers programme for a local Japanese firm. The...

Episode #584: Breaking Leader Bad Habits - The Struggles of Health, Fitness, and Stress We All Face

Are you sitting too much and for too long at your desk every day? Are you eating too much every meal becau...

Episode #583: AI Enabled Leadership In Japan

We know that AI has gone from the domain of geeky people in white lab coats to the mainstream of business i...

Episode #582: Leading People Through Disagreements in Japan

Recently, I was teaching a class of APAC executives on how to handle pushback to their ideas. Some particip...

Episode #581: Techniques For Getting Agreement As The Leader

Pulling rank on people is clearly the fastest and easiest way to get people to fly straight and do what we ...

Episode #580: No Legacy Leadership In Japan

Have you ever had the experience of leaving a job and seeing your successor screw it up? We spend so many ...

Episode #579: Leaders Embracing Change In Japan

Is change good or bad? When I was promoted or received a big bonus, I liked the change from my previous si...