Podcast

Episode #381: 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 A...

Episode #380: Key Competencies Needed To Lead Others (Part One)

Leading is super easy. You are given the title, the authority, the budget, the power and then you just tell...

Episode #379: The Slings And Arrows of Outrageous Fortune Running A Virtual Team

Japan has some set pieces around leadership. The Middle Manager boss sits at the head of an array of desks ...

Episode #378: How To Have Executive Presence

Clients sometimes ask us to help their Japanese executives have more “presence”. This is rather a vague con...

Episode #377: Why We Need Phase Three Thinking

In business we live in the world of shallow statements of opinion. Imagine there is a topic for discussion ...

Episode #376: Short Tempered Leaders (Like Me!) Explode During COVID-19

Leadership is stressful during normal times. Dramatically different situations being enforced to deal with ...

Episode #375: Kokorogamae For Leaders

Kokorogamae is one of those Japanese concepts which are a bit tricky to translate. Kokoro by itself as a wo...

Episode #374: Do We Need To Adjust Our Expectations About Performance Because of COVID-19

In any organisation we are going to have our A, B and C players. Hopefully no D players but if you do, then...

Episode #373: Holistic Time Management For Leaders

Leaders are now leading invisible people. Their staff are no longer in sight or at best are only visible in...

Episode #372: Leading Remotely But Keeping Close With Staff

Leaders who are remote from staff have long been identified as a problem. They don’t delegate, preferring t...

Episode #371: Furloughs And Firings Trigger Fear and Loathing Toward Leaders

Leaders do dumb things and sometimes they have to do difficult things. The line between which is which can ...

Episode #370: How Leaders Can Do A Better Job Of Engaging Their Staff

Many decades ago, I remember a visiting Korean business delegation coming to my home town of Brisbane. At t...

Episode #369: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part Three

In Part Two we have looked at getting engagement, having transparency and the impact of tech. One issue can...

Episode #368: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part Two

In Part One, we have looked at how to identify the culture in the organisation and if it is a keeper, the nu...

Episode #367: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part One

Harvard Emeritus Professor James Heskett’s comparative study of the impact culture has on corporate financia...

Episode #366: Leadership For Sales Managers In The Online World

Covid-19 hit business in Japan like a brick thown through a shop window. All of a sudden everything was a m...

Episode #365: Back To The Future At The Workplace

Let’s presume you have all of the safety protocols in place for providing a safe working environment. How d...

Episode #364: The Great Safe Return To The Workplace Caper in Japan

Congratulations on escaping the Covid-19 virus by staying safe and working from home. We all want to see ou...

Episode #363: Seize The Moment With Your Leader Storytelling

Covid-19 has changed the world from a personal health risk point of view and has also trashed industries, ca...

Episode #362: Social Intelligence For Leaders In Covid-19

We admire people with very high IQs, as badges of intellectual prowess. Members of Mensa International are ...