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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 #157 What Is The Best Way To introduce Yourself When Presenting

Usually when we are speaking we are introduced twice. Once at the very start by the MC and then during our ...

Episode #44 Middle Managers Are Your Firm's Lifeblood

Middle Managers are going to be the leadership group most directly interacting with the younger generation o...

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 #43 Old School Japanese Service

Customer service is a crowded field, with so many consumer products and services duking it out for survival....

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 #156: How To Control Your Reactions During Q&A

Creating and delivering the presentation sees you in 100% total control. You have designed it, you have bee...

Episode #42 Presentations Backed By Evidence Do Better

It is a fine line we have to tread. We want to be supplying data etc as evidence to support what we are say...

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 ...

Episode #155: How Many People Should Present

Often, we are presenting as a team and more than one speaker may be involved. Is that ideal or are we bette...

Episode #41 How Do You Make People Feel

Maya Angelou noted, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, bu...

Episode #329: The Leader Imposter Syndrome

In any field the people at the top can be plagued with self-doubt. It is especially prominent in the artist...

Episode #40 Bad Buyers

The Buyer is God not King in Japan and that difference is huge here. There are so many cases of buyers trea...

Episode #328: The Five Drivers Of A Positive Workplace

As the leader you set the culture and tone of the form. In Japan, up until a few years ago, you could get a...

Episode #39 Keys To Owning The Room When Presenting

Should the business presentations world be a democracy where anyone can speak? Actually no. Who wants to s...

Episode #327: Leader First Impression Success

In our presentation training classes we ask the participants, “how long does it take for you to make a judgm...

Episode #37 The Death Valley In Sales

Sales is an emotional roller coaster. It is also a roller coaster of results. We have sales rolling in and...

Episode #326: The Mental Game Of Coaching In Business

Today there is a lot of discussion about conscious and unconscious bias in the workplace, especially when di...

Episode #36 Conquering Public Speaking Nervousness

Anyone presenting in public eye is going to experience fear. I am a veteran, having done over 500 public sp...

Episode #325: Leading The Firm From $150 Million To A $BIllion

Today we interview Mt. Yasuaki Mori, previous CEO of Infineon Technologies. Mori san was President there fo...