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Episode #590: Avoiding the Leadership Disconnect. Stay Close to the Action In Japan

Avoiding the Leadership Disconnect. Stay Close to the Action In Japan The usual advice is to get off the to...

Episode #589: Leading Direct Reports When You Are A Small Team In Japan

Large organisations have many willing hands. Often, the quality of the people employed is very high, and t...

Episode #588: Transform Your Team Leadership. Secrets For Building Cohesion and Performance In Japan

Teams don’t build themselves. They are delicate, fragile and unstable. They need constant care and attentio...

Episode #587: The Collapse Of On-the-Job Training in Japan: A Wake-Up Call for Companies

When I first got to Tokyo in 1979, there was a very well established corporate educational system in Japan....

Episode #586: Why Authenticity Matters – Inspiring Leadership For Japan’s Evolving Workplace

The blow torch has never been applied more ferociously to how leaders lead than what we see today. Once up...

Episode #585: Why Becoming An Effective Leader Is Challenging In Japan

We recently completed an in-house Leadership Training for Managers programme for a local Japanese firm. The...

Episode #584: Breaking Leader Bad Habits - The Struggles of Health, Fitness, and Stress We All Face

Are you sitting too much and for too long at your desk every day? Are you eating too much every meal becau...

Episode #583: AI Enabled Leadership In Japan

We know that AI has gone from the domain of geeky people in white lab coats to the mainstream of business i...

Episode #582: Leading People Through Disagreements in Japan

Recently, I was teaching a class of APAC executives on how to handle pushback to their ideas. Some particip...

Episode #581: Techniques For Getting Agreement As The Leader

Pulling rank on people is clearly the fastest and easiest way to get people to fly straight and do what we ...

Episode #580: No Legacy Leadership In Japan

Have you ever had the experience of leaving a job and seeing your successor screw it up? We spend so many ...

Episode #579: Leaders Embracing Change In Japan

Is change good or bad? When I was promoted or received a big bonus, I liked the change from my previous si...

Episode #578: “Ichi-Go, Ichi-E” (一期一会) Cherish The Moment Leaders

This Japanese expression “Ichi-Go, Ichi-E” (一期一会), linked to Zen, focuses on transience and can be translat...

Episode #577: Seven Points For Leaders When Giving Talks

Recently, my social media has been full of short videos of various politicians and supporters giving talks ...

Episode #576: Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part Two

Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part Two We have looked at some of the steps in Part One, so...

Episode #575: Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part One

“Remember that other people may be totally wrong, but they don’t think so”. This quote from Dale Carnegie s...

Episode #574: Resolving Internal Conflicts In Japan

Business is more fast-paced that ever before in human history. Technology boasting massive computing and co...

Episode #573: What Is “Enclothed Cognition” And Why Does It Matter To Leaders in Japan?

I saw a video recently from Rampley and Co in the UK featuring Caryn Franklin, a Fashion and Identity Comme...

Episode #572: The Leader Is The Face Of The Business In Japan

I meet a lot of CEOs in Japan. I am always out there networking and looking for clients. If they cannot b...

Episode #571: Joe Biden’s Lessons On Destroying Your Leadership Credibility For Japan CEOs

Being an Aussie I don’t have the right to select the next US President or get involved in American politics...