Thought Leadership

Episode #217: Common Sense Baby Is Not Common

Leaders in Japanese and multinational companies alike often face a common dilemma: how much freedom should tea...

Episode #218: Building Your Team

In Japan’s fast-changing business environment, teams constantly shift — people move, new members join, and mar...

Episode #219: The Four Stages Of Building A Team

Many leaders assume that team building happens only when starting a new project or organization. In reality, m...

Who’s Got the Monkey? How Leaders Lose Control When They’re Too Busy | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

It was a Saturday when I received a staff leave request. It reminded me that we hadn’t had our weekly meeting ...

When Should Leaders Keep Secrets and When Should They Share? | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

Leaders are the gatekeepers of information. They attend the briefings, the off-sites, and the strategy session...

Family Safety Leadership in Japan: How to Prepare for Rare but Violent Home Invasions | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

Japan has long been considered one of the safest countries in the world. That is why recent cases — such as ho...

Inclusion First: How to Build Trust and Cultural Awareness for Real DEI in Japan | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

Over the past few years, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training has grown rapidly in Japan. Yet most p...

Why Japanese Staff Loyalty Doesn’t Equal Commitment — Rethinking Motivation and Management in Japan | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

Business owners have everything at stake — their wealth, their risk, and their reputation. Executives in Weste...

Episode #220: How To Glue Your Team Together

In today’s Japanese and global business environments, many leaders are promoted for their technical expertise ...

Episode #221: Japan Street Fight Leadership

Change is hard anywhere. In Japan, it comes with its own cultural gravity. Many expat leaders arrive full of e...

Episode #222: Leadership Success Formula For Japan

For decades, leaders in Western countries were trained to be self-sufficient individuals—driven by competition...

Episode #223: Leadership Blind Spots

In modern organizations, perfection is an illusion — yet many leaders behave as if they must never show weakne...

Episode #224: My Boss Doesn't Listen To Me

In many Japanese and multinational organizations (日本企業 and 外資系企業 alike), employees often feel that their leade...

Episode #225: Six Nightmare Listeners-Are You One Of Them?

Why do even great leaders fail to connect with their teams?In Japanese and global business alike, the ability ...

Episode #226: Vulnerable Leaders

In today’s competitive corporate world, many people still believe that leaders must be flawless — always right...

Why Time-Poor Leaders Must Stop Giving Orders and Start Giving Context | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

Leaders everywhere face the same frustration — too much to do and not enough time to do it.Meetings, emails, a...

Episode #227: How To Snuggle Up To Employees

In many organizations across Tokyo and beyond, leaders are encouraged to “engage more with their teams.” Howev...

Building Psychological Safety in Japan: How Leaders Can Balance Confidence and Humility | Dale Carnegie Tokyo

In Japan’s deeply hierarchical corporate culture, disagreeing with a superior is often seen as risky or disres...

Episode #228: Team, I've Got your Back

No organization runs perfectly. Mistakes, oversights, and human errors are inevitable. But in Japan’s zero-mis...

Episode #229: Karoshi is BS. Overwork Rarely Kills You

Despite decades of awareness, Japan continues to witness tragic cases of karoshi—death from overwork. The medi...