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Episode #566: How To Influence Engagement In Japan

APAC always ranks low in global engagement surveys. At the very bottom of the APAC calculation sits Japan. ...

Episode #565 People-First Leadership In Japan

Alan Mulally has had a very successful career at Ford and Boeing. Over his 45 years as a leader, he develo...

Episode #564: Handling Underperformance In Japan

I was having lunch with an expat client who has been here about a year and a half. We were talking about p...

Episode #563: Using Dale Carnegie’s Human Relations Principles For Effective Coaching

Effective leaders actively coach their staff and move them through four stages. In Phase One, they create a...

Episode #562: Moving Ideas Into Reality In Japan

Ideas are free and sometimes frivolous. We can brainstorm anything we like and we will come up with a bunc...

Episode #562: Moving Ideas Into Reality In Japan

Ideas are free and sometimes frivolous. We can brainstorm anything we like and we will come up with a bunc...

Episode #561: Creative Problem Solving

Japan has a lot of wisdom to share and one of my favourites is to not start with the solution to a problem....

Episode #560: The Big Badness Of Baidu’s EQ

Founded in 2000, Baidu has 39,800 employees and is one of the largest global AI and internet companies. Ba...

Episode #559: The Creativity Process When Leading In Japan

The era of the boss who had done all the tasks in the section and was the main expert on the business has w...

Episode #558: Building Your Strategic Plan In Japan

The leader has a different role to that of the manager. The manager makes the business run on time, to qua...

Episode #557: How Effective Is Your Team In Japan?

As the boss, we are always super busy. We have the management of the team and the results to work on. Eve...

Episode #556: Defining The Team’s Purpose In Japan

Managers manage. That means they make sure everything runs on time, to cost and to quality. The leader do...

Episode #555: What Is Different About Leading In Japan

There is a debate about whether Japan is any different from anywhere else when it comes to leading the team...

Leadership Blind Spots

Do leaders have to be perfect? It sounds ridiculous to expect that, because none of us are perfect. Howeve...

Episode #554: The Leader Success Formula In Japan

Here is a handy success equation which is easy to remember: our mindset plus our skill set, will equal our ...

Episode #553: Getting Followers To Follow Our Leadership

It is very common to hear from expat leaders here about their frustrations with leading teams in Japan. Th...

Episode #552: Why CFOs Struggle As The CEO In Japan

I was reading an article by Anjli Raval in the Financial Times about the transition for CFOs to the CEO job...

Episode #551: Keep Reminding The Team Of the Goal When Leading

It sounds very obvious, doesn’t it, to remind the team what we are trying to achieve, but are we doing it? ...

Episode #550: Loyalty Is Now Tenuous In Business In Japan

Japan has had a very low degree of mobility in employment. Large companies hired staff straight out of sch...

Episode #549: Leading Japan's Most Difficult Generation Of Workers

Leading Japan’s Most Difficult Generation Of Workers Leaders now face a pivotal moment in business in Japan...