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Episode #9: Paul Hardisty, Ex-CEO, Adidas Japan

Once you walk the talk over a given period of time as a leader, you gain trust, and then people will f...

Episode #48: Stop Being Scared To Death When Presenting

Hands and legs quivering, knees knocking together, face turning red, pulse racing, mind whiting out – this...

Episode #8: Dominic Carter, CEO of The Carter Group

If you come into Japan with the idea that you're going to give orders and people are going to follow your ...

Episode #47: Service The Way The Japanese Do It

I am sure you have you seen notices explaining that this location is going to close while the building is ...

Episode #7: Masa Namiki, CEO of Interbrand Japan

While you can be ready for a position from a capability or mindset perspective, it does not necessarily me...

Episode #46: Leading Youth Dilemmas

Japan is entering a scary world of work. The tried and true assimilation methods of the past, for injecti...

Episode #6: James Feliciano, CEO of AbbVie Japan

As a leader in Japan, people look to you for approval, for guidance, for answers, but at the same time you...

Episode #45: Public Speaking Is Your Personal Brand Destroyer

Seriously sad really. Our speaker had some excellent points to convey but due to silly basic errors, kill...

Episode #5: Kervin Go, Country Manager of Curvature Japan

Because it is easy to let your inner pride at being a leader override the humility that is necessary as a ...

Episode #44: Seriously Nasty Buyers

The customer is Kamisama (God) in sales in Japan. We hear this a lot here across all industries and secto...

Episode #4: Aki Kubo, CEO, Tag Japan

Japanese leaders in Japanese companies are often more like managers, than like leaders - leaders are expec...

Episode #43: Fond Farewells for Staff

In most Western economies, a colleague’s farewell is no big deal, just a part of the tapestry of business....

Episode #3: Luke Verwey, CEO, Nielsen Japan

While every country has its nuances, it is about finding the calibration point between the goals of the mu...

Episode #42: In Your Presentation Pour On Your Evidence

There are a number of common structures for giving presentations and one of the most popular is the openin...

Episode #2: Harry Hill, ex-CEO of Shop Japan

When you lead people, you have to lead them in a way they are going to follow. In Japan, when you teach a cl...

Episode #41: Sales Perils

Sales cannot run like a manufacturing production line. We are not making industrial cheese here. This is...

Episode #1: Yasuaki Mori, ex-CEO of Infineon Technologies Japan

Yasuaki Mori is a European, Asia and North American technology growth executive in the disruptive mobility...

Episode #40: Super Self Awareness

As professionals how do we grow in our business careers? Academic studies usually form the platform to wh...

Episode #39: The Critical 3 E's For Speakers

Clearly not everyone should be a presenter. We don’t need higher levels of boredom or disinterest than we...

Episode #38: The Best Kept Secret In Sales

Sale’s solutions are what make the business world thrive. The client has a problem and we fix it, our goo...