Podcast

Episode #281: Leader Roles We Must Play

LinkedIn posts can throw up some valuable insights and contributions. I am posting everyday, so I aim to be...

Episode #280: Do You Have To Be A Saint When Leading In Japan?

Leadership can be broken up into two main activities. One is making sure that the processes of the operatio...

Episode #279: AI Armageddon

Software development went down two paths. One was as a means to better control the employees and the other w...

Episode #278: Modern Leaders Fear Talent In The Ranks

Business today has become vicious. Having a long career in a company is not something that is highly probab...

Episode #277: Leaders Who Don't Know What They Don't Know And Why It Matters

In 1955, psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, in a burst of errant egotism, foisted the words Jo...

Episode #276: What Type Of Leaders Do Followers Want In Japan

Leaders want many things from followers. Results, top line, bottom line, efficiency, cost cutting, loyalty...

Episode #275: What Type Of Leaders Don't Followers Want In Japan

During a leadership training session here we looked at what the group thought were the traits of ineffective...

Episode #274: Uncovering What leaders Don't Know

Episode #273: Managing Up

Why do we want to manage up? All the brains and good ideas in an organization don’t exclusively aggregate to...

Episode #272: Mentor Others To Help Yourself

The title sounds terrible doesn’t it. So selfish and self-serving. The truth is we don’t mentor others bec...

Episode #271: Five Phase Practical Creative Thinking

More, faster, better with less sounds ideal, but if you are continuing to do the same things, in the same wa...

Episode #270: Coaching People Out Of Downward, Negative Spirals

You are resilient, sturdy, capable, independent, hardy, self-motivated, constantly pushing and challenging t...

Episode #269: Celebrating Wins When Doing Business In Japan

We imagine we are celebrating our wins, but are we really? I think about myself and I realize, I am not doi...

Episode #268: Handling Mistakes In Business In Japan

Mistakes happen. The important thing though is how we handle mistakes in Japan? How do you handle mistakes...

Episode #267: Time When Doing Business In Japan

Time is life, time is money and time is your business. Business decisions are glacial here in Japan but buy...

Episode #266: Delegation In Business In Japan

We know that delegating tasks is important but we have tried it in the past and found it didn’t work well, s...

Episode #265: Japan Can Be Brutal In Sports And Business

We recently had a blatant example of poor sportsmanship here in an American Football game between two tradit...

Episode #264: The Future Of Leadership

Episode #263: Stress In Business In Japan

We know that stress is a killer. Stress is something that sits there under the surface and it effects our h...

Episode #262: Worry In Business In Japan

There are so many things we have to worry about in business. Do we have enough cash flow to pay the bills, w...