Podcast

Episode #429: Let's Learn From Prime Minister's Leadership Failures

There is nothing like a good meltdown to throw up valuable lessons for the rest of us. So, a big thank you ...

Episode #428: The Boss Must Become The Virtual Chatbot Alternative

In one of my other podcasts, “The Presentations Japan Series”, l talked about “Virtual Chatbots Are The End ...

Episode #427: No Change Agent Leaders Needed In Japan

The following scenario will feel familiar to Japan old hands. The foreign enterprise hires the retired Pres...

Episode #426: Should The Leader Concede?

Never surrender, no capitulation, “quitters don’t win and winners don’t quit”, “when you are going through h...

Episode #425: Leaders Sensing Versus Managers Knowing

Marcel Danne, an Executive Coach whom I have never met or talked to, recently put up an idea on social media...

Episode #424: Leaders Having Visions Were Disparaged

I remember the mockery, the cynical sneering, the derision about leaders having “visions”. The implication w...

Episode #423: The Creative Idea Journey Within Companies

People are very creative, although many would not describe themselves that way. This is often the case beca...

Episode #422: How To Enhance Corporate Creativity

Innovation is not the monopoly of the R&D Department. Everyone of our staff has highly tuned antennae w...

Episode #421: Four Attributes for Leaders to Master

Regardless of what level of leader we are, from neophyte to legend, there are four attributes which we need ...

Episode #420: Do You Have A Leadership Philosophy

We are often leadership practitioners, rather than genteel philosophers, pontificating on leadership issues....

Episode #419: Employer Branding About To Relaunch

Covid is raging again, but we can see the end, be it this year or next year. It will finally stop being our ...

Episode #418: Leadership Challenges Post Covid

The faintest glimmer of hope is reflecting off a trillion hypodermic needle tips, as we vaccinate our way ou...

Episode #417: Stop Procrastinating And Start Delegating

The most fatal words ever spoken by a leader are , “it will be faster if I do it myself”. No it won’t. If ...

Episode #416: Stakeholder, Customer, Employee - Whose Interests Should Leaders Prioritise?

Shareholders put up their future security in the hope of increasing their returns and adding further to thei...

Episode #415: Pandemic Leaders: Time To Harden Up

We are all striving to survive these VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) fraught and fr...

Episode #414: Leaders Defending The Indefensible

If the client complains directly to your staff member about their poor service, should you go to bat for you...

Episode #413: Strategic Planning In These VUCA Times

“October this year is when we can expect the turn around to kick off here in Japan”. Being the sunny optimi...

Episode #412: How To Run Brainstorming Sessions When Everyone Is At Home

Pandemics force change. We keep thinking we have turned the corner in Japan, to be just shunted further dow...

Episode #411: The New Diaspora Leadership Challenge

Winston Churchill said, “When you are going through hell, keep going”. We have all been going through hell,...

Episode #410: How Leaders Can Protect Their Clubhouse Personal Brand

The Clubhouse global audio conversation App is hot, hot, hot. It is only available on Apple iOS so far, but...