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Leadership Principles Are An Absolute Must

Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and INSEAD Business School are all awesome institutions. ...

Gamification Makes Sales Role Play Fun

An ideal work week for salespeople would start everyday with sales role play with colleagues. When we do se...

Selling Year In, Year Out (Part Two)

In Part One, we talked about Jan Carlzon’s insights into the importance of consistent service being provide...

Primacy and Recency for Speakers (Part Two)

In Part One, we looked at the ideas of primacy (the first thing we remember) and recency (the last thing we ...

Primacy and Recency For Speakers (Part One)

Primacy refers to the beginning of something, as it enters our brain. This new entity has a powerful impact ...

How Much Should You Brag About Yourself When Presenting

Bruce Springsteen’s song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they’ll pass you by” pops int...

Episode #237: Orjan Pettersson, Managing Director Protofoto KK

Previously, Orjan was Director of Sales, Japan at iPoint Systems gmbh, Area Sales Manager Thule Group, Direc...

Episode #341: Don't Get Sabotaged By Your Colleagues When Selling in Japan

Sales is a nightmare. It is usually a solitary life. You head off to meet customers all day. Your occasion...

Episode #340: How Crazy Can We Go When Presenting In Japan

Japan doesn’t love crazy. In our High Impact Presentations Course we have exercises where we ask the partici...

Episode #241: Open The Kimono When Presenting In Japan

Stop wrecking your presentations. When delivering talks, many speakers separate their personal identities fr...

Episode #240: Buyer Styles In Japan

Salespeople are ignorant. When interacting with Japanese buyers, personality differences play a more critica...

Episode #236: Alan Malcolm, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Udemy Japan

Previously Alan was Executive Advisor, Nikkei; Chief Commercial Officer at Exceedo; Head of Asia, Pearson, P...

How Decisions Are Really Made Inside Japanese Companies

The President of a company is a very powerful force. They drive the direction, the strategy and the culture...

Leaders Need To Empty Their Cup

Tokusan the scholar visited Ryutan the Zen Master to learn about Zen. Tokusan was a very smart fellow and v...

The Seven Bridges Of Sales

There is a process to sales. Amazingly, most salespeople don’t know what it is. They are either ignorant, ...

How To Deal with Major Misperceptions Buyers Have About Your Company

A stranger contacts you out of the blue or you meet them fleetingly at an event and they call you afterwards...

What Is Enjoyable About Public Speaking

For many people it may seem we are getting into oxymoron territory here. “Public speaking…enjoyable? You m...

Simultaneously Dealing With All Four Audience Types When Presenting

Experts, pseudo experts, amateurs, believers, sceptics, supporters, enemies make up that sea of faces in fro...

Episode #235: Michael Witt, President Nicole Racing Japan LLC

Previously Michael was Vice-President Sales and Marketing Nicole Racing, Senior General Manager BMW Alpina, ...

Leadership-Key Competencies Needed To Lead Others – Part Two

  In Part One we looked at two broad categories of leadership competences around being Self-Aware and having ...