In Leadership, When Does Your Hard-Earned Confidence Become A Weakness?
Successful executives get where they are because of their ability to make good decisions. The ability to predict the right course of action under even …
Work Culture Archive
Business Management With ‘Environmental Beta’: The Measure Of Change
Now more than ever, business is an exercise in the management of change. The fields that we operate in are dynamic and hard to predict. …
The Strange Secret Behind Founding A Business
Being a startup founder is an exercise in a strange and almost inexplicable physics. We are taught not to believe in magic, but looking at …
What Blue Chip Companies Are Finding Out The Hard Way: We Are All Startups
The classic corporate business approach for devising a business strategy is to allow a vice president of the company to put forward a plan – complete with …
Japan’s Rising Tide Leaves Small Business Out At Sea
As an entrepreneur, I am intensely interested in how business operates – not just here in the US- but in other countries as well. As much as business is …
Technology And The (Rare) Joy Of Being Lost
Digital media and technology are ubiquitous today, which means we are presented with an inexhaustible series of messages and opportunities to be entertained and informed. …
Obama Spa
These guys in Kyushu, Japan were going nuts when Barack Obama became president. They had election parties, and even invited the president to come and …
Instituitions Versus People: A Japanese Perspective
We have 3 kids who we are teaching to speak Japanese. We also have Japanese TV by satellite at home. This means that we show …
The New Guy: Adventures in Communication
The new guy arrived from Japan just a week earlier. He is the one that observed “Americans could never survive driving the roads in Japan” …
Bento: Go Forth Into The World, My Child
Bento. Traditional lunchboxes from Japan. I would go so far as to say that Bento is becoming an English word. In case you don’t know, …
