Podcast

Episode #436: The Five Drivers Of Leadership Success

There are many things which lead to successful leadership. You might have hit a purple patch in the market ...

Episode #435: Balancing People and Process and Leading and Doing

We are super busy people, hitting our targets, ploughing through the workload, coming in early, staying late...

Episode #434: How to Stop Forgetting Things

I don’t know whether we tend to forget things because we are getting older or because as we get older, we ge...

Episode #433: The Right Japan Workplace Culture

Starting something new means we start with a clean slate and can create the culture we want to predominate t...

Episode #432: How To Remember People

Are you good at remembering the names of people you meet? Are you having that embarrassing situation where ...

Episode #431: Interview with Dr. Greg Story (Part Two)

Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan and master trainer in sales, presentations a...

Episode #430: Interview with Dr. Greg Story (Part One)

Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan, sits down with Andrew Hankinson, Senior Man...

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 ...